5,000 families affected by natural disasters have not yet received the subsidy
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Municipal employees have been directed to provide timely reconstruction and rehabilitation packages to those affected by disasters such as floods, landslides, and earthquakes. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority has oriented all the 12 Municipal Chief Administrative Officers, Disaster Focal Persons, Information Technology Officers and Disaster Focal Persons of Bajhang.
Because the municipalities did not do the reconstruction and rehabilitation process in time, the disaster victims in Bajhang since 2077 and 2078 have not been able to get the funds for reconstruction. Some of the disaster-affected families in the district have not been able to pay the loans for the construction of houses due to the government not getting the grant money for reconstruction on time. Some are forced to work in India.
'In Bajhang, the work of grant to disaster affected people has been very slow. The affected people have not been able to feel the state because they have not received the subsidy even for five or six years,' said Gyannath Dhakal, the deputy secretary of the authority.
In order to provide grants to disaster-affected beneficiaries, the local disaster management committee in the municipality should identify the beneficiaries and send the details along with the list to the district disaster management committee. In this way, based on the details entered into the electronic system by the related municipal ward after collecting the data of the damage caused by the disaster, it should be submitted to the district along with the recommendation of the beneficiary, a government document revealing the identity of the person concerned or a copy of the land being occupied, if it falls under the risk category according to the procedure, and a certified document issued by the government agency confirming the same. Based on that, the District Disaster Management Committee analyzes the damage. After studying the recommendations, the affected families are selected as beneficiaries. "Even if all these processes are completed, funds can be sent to the accounts of the affected people," Deputy Secretary Dhakal said, "but the affected people have not been able to get subsidies for a long time because the municipalities are not interested in it."
Another deputy secretary of the authority, Suresh Sunar, said that due to the fact that the disaster affected people were deprived of getting the grant due to the failure to enter information in the authority's online system in time to provide the grant, the municipal employees were also oriented regarding the operation of the disaster portal and reconstruction information management system (RMIS). "It was seen that there was a delay in getting the subsidy due to some confusion among the employees about entering the online system along with the paper process," he said.
Chief District Officer Kailash Bahadur Thakurathi, who is also the chairman of the committee, said that the beneficiaries complained to the district disaster management committee because they did not receive reconstruction grants even after the disaster. "There has been an intensive discussion on solving the problems to complete the orientation process and also on technical issues," he said. He said that there is no problem in providing subsidies to the beneficiaries as soon as the municipality completes all the procedures.
About 5,000 families of Bajhang whose houses were damaged due to the monsoon disaster in 2077 and 2078 and the earthquake in 2079 and 2080 have not been able to get the reconstruction grant until now. After the damage caused by the earthquake on August 16, 2080, although the amount of temporary housing was distributed, after a year and a half of the earthquake, the detailed damage assessment of the beneficiaries who are eligible for the grant for reconstruction has not been done. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority has informed that the engineers of the authority are preparing to come to Bajhang in a few days to do this work called DDA (Detailed Damage Assessment).
