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Grant will be provided to those recommended by the local governments: Gyewali

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Dolakha, December 3: Chief Executive Officer of the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) Sushil Gyewali has said that the earthquake-affected people recommended by the local governments will be enlisted as beneficiaries and will be provided the government grant for private housing reconstruction.

At a town-hall meeting organized today in Charikot, Dolakha, he said the earthquake-affected people left out in the previous survey would be resurveyed and enlisted as beneficiaries at the recommendation of the concerned Wards and local governments and that all the grievances would be redressed.

“Engineers at concerned local governments will do the resurvey, the Wards will make recommendations and then the Mayors and the Chief Administrative Officers of local governments will make recommendations, and we will enlist them as beneficiaries,” said Gyewali, requesting the people’s representatives not to recommend names on the basis of the people’s party affiliation.

He also said that the NRA was always ready to empower local governments to solve the issues of the earthquake-affected people and requested the elected representatives to stay away from fake details. “The elected representatives should also play an important role to stop the trend of misusing the government money,” he said.

Chief District Officer Sagar Mani Pathak said it had been difficult to determine whether an individual owned any house in another place or not due to lack of clear and integrated records on property, and added that the citizens should also be responsible on this matter. “If those who are eligible to get grants to construct the house have been left out, they should get the the grant, but those doing the wrong will be punished by the state,” he said.

Dolakha district chief of District Level Project Implementation Unit (Grant Management and Local Infrastructure) Nirmal Darshan Acharya said the reconstruction work is going on well in areas with less problems, and that there are 2,300 grievances that are yet to be addressed. He said, “To complete the remaining works of reconstruction, we will move ahead by identifying the issues and finding the solutions.”

According to the DLPIU, the grant agreement has been signed with 63,487 households in Dolakha of which 61,529 households have received their first tranche. Private housing reconstruction of 70 percent of the grantees has started, while that of 59 percent has completed.

At the program, local elected representatives raised issues such as delay in addressing grievances, totally damaged houses being listed in the retrofitting list, the appeal procedure being tardy, problems of those who made house in the land of their relatives, and though there had been policy-level decision on multi-ownership there had been problems in its execution.

Deputy Mayor of Kalinchowk Rural Municipality Kalika Pathak said that it is necessary that local governments become clear about their rights so as to make reconstruction more effective, because people have not received the allocated money as some issues are not clear.

Deputy Mayor of Bhimeshwar Municipality Kamala Basnet requested the NRA to take initatives on rebuilding the temples, shrines, and paths and roads as well.

The elected representatives of local governments, engineers, representatives of non-governmental organizations, earthquake-affected people, stakeholder community related to reconstruction, among others, were present at the function.