Kathmandu, November 26

The government today decided to build a total of 50 temporary collective shelters for earthquake victims in 14 earthquake-affected districts.

The Cabinet meeting held at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers in Singha Durbar this morning decided to build temporary shelters in 14 districts that had been severely affected by the April 25 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks.

The government also decided to send work procedure on safe collective shelters to the Legislature Committee of the Parliament for discussion.

According to government statistics, about 9,000 people were killed in the earthquake and as many as 900,000 houses were destroyed.

Nepal Disaster Risk Reduction Portal states that 604,930 buildings government and private were fully damaged while 288,856 buildings were partially damaged.

The government also decided to accept the German government’s additional assistance of Rs 3.44 billion for reconstruction of earthquake affected structures.

The German government has provided Rs 2.87 billion financial assistance and Rs 573.7 million as technical assistance.

Five joint secretaries transferred

KATHMANDU: The government on Thursday transferred five joint secretaries. A Cabinet meeting decided to this effect.

According to government spokesman and Minister for Information, Communications and Technology Sherdhan Rai, Joint Secretary Chakra Bahadur Budha has been transferred from the President’s Office to the Ministry of Home Affairs; Ram Krishna Subedi from the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) to the Ministry of Home Affairs; Kamal Prasad Bhattarai from the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation to the Ministry of General Administration; Danduraj Ghimire from Ministry of General Administration to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation and Rishiraj Sharma from the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers to the Ministry of Home Affairs.