Urban Development Minister Kulman Ghising said that every year there is a huge loss of people's wealth due to calamities due to failure to identify safe places and establish settlements through geographical risk assessment.
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Minister of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Physical Infrastructure and Transport and Urban Development Kulman Ghising has said that the integrated settlement program has not been successful because the social, environmental and economic aspects of the common people cannot be connected.
On the occasion of the World Habitat Day held on Monday, the Department of Urban Development and Building Construction and the United Nations Human Settlements Program mentioned that if a safe place is not identified and settled through geographic risk assessment, every year there is a huge loss of human resources due to disasters.
'We have built integrated settlements in some parts of the country, because we could not connect the communities there with social, environmental and economic aspects, the developed settlements looked empty, making the unorganized settlements in rural and urban areas safe and orderly is the biggest challenge now,' he said .
Ghising said that every year huge human wealth is lost due to the failure to relocate the settlements to safe places by mapping the geographically risky places to avoid monsoon disasters.
After preparing a master plan for city development, one city will be developed as a model and infrastructure structures will be built accordingly and it can be followed in other cities' development as well, he said. "There is a practice of fragmenting the land and developing the city, now to stop it, we have to prepare an integrated master plan for urban development and move forward," he said, "Urban beauty cannot be maintained without the beauty of the river banks, so it is necessary to manage the settlements along the river corridors of Kathmandu Valley."
Infrastructure such as road, electricity, telephone, drinking water has reached the rural areas, but the settlements there are decreasing, he said.
Energy Minister Ghising said that corruption, irregularity and delay in the ministries under his charge will be dealt with according to the zero tolerance policy.
In a program organized by the Department of Urban Development and Construction, Minister Ghising warned that he would be ruthless with employees who do wrong. He said that the Ministry of Urban Development, which is focused on the work of developing big cities, has gone beyond its scope and is planning to break it up.
