Wednesday, July 20, 2016

NRA to form community committee

Kathmandu, July 17: In order to move the reconstruction and rehabilitation works in efficient manner, the government has been planning to formulate Reconstruction Community Committee (RCC) in communities and wards.
“Such committees will be mobilized to promote mutual assistance, cooperation in reconstruction works and continue the work turn by turn in case of lack of required manpower,” said the National Reconstruction Authority in a press statement Sunday.
The reconstruction body has finalized the directives for the same.
According to the directives, a RCC will be 7-member body with one chairman elected by the community, five members including at least 3 female and one member secretary.
Such committees will coordinate in the reconstruction of damaged houses in the respective communities, promote mutual cooperation in reconstruction works and assist and facilitate agencies and organizations working to reconstruct infrastructure in the community.
 RCCs will provide necessary consultation and suggestions to the Reconstruction Coordination Committee in addressing the grievances registered by the quake-victims at the community of ward-level.
“RCCs will identify, develop and implement livelihood programmes for the quake-affected, poor and marginalized families, and also work to mobilize the fund received from various government and non-government agencies in such programmes,” read the NRA statement.
Their role is also to establish cooperative and promote savings, lend loans, organize training for skill enhancement, promote entrepreneurship and implement income generating activities at the local level.
The directives also said that there would be another committee, Reconstruction Coordination Committee, at the municipality or VDC level which will be led by a chairman elected by the meeting of RCC chairmen, and will have two to six members from the RCC chairmen, while two members will be selected by the Coordination Committee from Ward Citizen Forum.
The Coordination Committee will include two members from Citizen Awareness Centre and a secretary assigned by the respective local body.

Such committees will coordinate with the political parties active at the local level and create environment of consensus for reconstruction process. 

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