NEPALGUNJ, AUGUST 6

Nepalgunj Sub-metropolitan City is going to conduct study on risk of earthquake and fire in two wards for strengthening urban preparedness for effective disaster response.

The Urban Disaster and Earthquake Preparedness and Response Project will carry out survey among 1,100 households in wards 3 and 7 of the sub-metropolitan city, informed Nepal Red Cross Society's Banke branch technical Chief Shiva Subedi.

UNICEF and NRCS are going to coordinate efforts with Nepalgunj Sub-metropolitan City to enhance the understanding of risks of earthquake and fire in the communities which are prone to these disasters. Furthermore, the local government will demonstrate preparedness measures in these communities.

The survey will assign five technical human resources for two weeks while the project will run for a year, shared Subedi.

A recent meeting held in the presence of Mayor Prashant Bista, Deputy Mayor Kamaruddin Rai and district president of NRCS Govardan Singh, among others, decided to this effect.

Under this project, technical experts will be mobilised in the field to identify the houses at risk and to construct structures for disaster preparedness, informed Prakash DC, sub-metropolitan's disaster source person.

The sub-metropolis will implement insurance programme once the identification of risky houses is over.

A version of this article appears in the print on August 7, 2022 of The Himalayan Times.