RECONSTRUCTION DRIVE IN NEPAL’S GORKHA DISTRICT PROVIDES RESIDENCE TO VULNERABLE PEOPLE

Under the assistance of the Indian Government, Nepal has been providing residence to the people of Gorkha and Nuwakot districts who have been hit by the 2015 earthquake.

India has supported the construction of 50,000 houses in Gorkha (26912 beneficiaries) and Nuwakot (23088 beneficiaries) districts of Nepal. Dal Bahadur Bishwokarma who lost his sight a decade ago, has to live in a temporary shelter for nearly half a decade after the 2015 earthquake leveled his house to the ground. “We used to live on that hillside slope. It belonged to my younger brother, later he sold it and didn’t give the share from it, we then came to this place afterwards,” Dal Bahadur, who has seven members in his family, told ANI.Now the situation has changed, the local government in assistance with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of India has provided land and built a house for the family of Dal Bahadur.

“The money was provided to us by the ward office and municipality and we deployed local masons to build it,” Dal Bahadur informed. Dal Bahadur is one of the first families who have shifted to a recently relocated group of 13 households in Palungtar Municipality of Gorkha. The local authorities have created a fund to help the most vulnerable families by supporting them with financial assistance as well as other technical facilitation.

The Indian Government has appointed UNDP and UNOPS as socio-technical facilitation consultants .