KATHMANDU, OCTOBER 20
The government today decided to provide Rs 300,000 to 500,000 to people displaced by floods and landslides to build their houses.
Minister of Home Affairs Balkrishna Khand told mediapersons after the Cabinet meeting that the government would provide Rs 500,000 to those displaced in the mountain region, Rs 400,000 to those in the hills, and Rs 300,000 for victims of floods and landslides in the Tarai region to build their houses.
If people displaced by floods and landslides don't own land to build houses, they will get additional Rs 300,000 to purchase land.
If the government cannot provide land to the displaced people, it will build houses for them, claimed Khand.
The government has also decided to pay an ex gratia amount of Rs 200,000 to the kin of a person killed in a natural disaster and additional Rs 100,000 for another death in the family.
According to Home Ministry Spokesperson Phanindramani Pokharel, in the past three days 77 people were killed in recent floods and landslides and 26 were missing.
Twenty-two people have been injured in floods and landslides. As many as 19 districts of all regions have suffered the most damage due to natural disasters.
Twenty-seven houses have been damaged in the latest disaster.
The minister said the government would provide free treatment to those injured in floods or landslides. He said the government had been mobilising Nepali Army helicopters in the rescue efforts and if need be, it would also use private helicopters for the same.
Khand said the government would collect data on the loss of paddy and provide relief to the farmers who had suffered losses due to floods. The Tarai floods have affected farmers who were preparing to harvest paddy.
The Cabinet meeting was urgently called by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to discuss relief and rescue issues.
A version of this article appears in the print on October 21, 2021, of The Himalayan Times.
