Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal
Dahal Prachanda had announced to increase the grant money from Rs. 200,000 to
Rs. 300,000.
NRA chief executive officer
Sushil Gyawali proposed increasing the amount instead of increasing installments.
As per earlier decision, the
government has deposited the first installment of the grant money into the bank
accounts of 393,677 families of the worst quake-hit 11 districts.
The number is about 74 per cent
of the total beneficiaries in those districts.
The proposal was tabled at the
meeting of the NRA Steering Committee held Sunday which was chaired by the PM
Prachanda who also chairs the committee.
The meeting will also make
decision over providing interest free loan of Rs. 300,000.
Housing reconstruction grant
agreement was signed with 454,015 families in 11 districts that consist of 85
per cent of the total identified beneficiaries.
According to a report submitted
by the Central Level Programme Implementation Unit (CLPIU) at the Ministry of
Federal Affairs and Local Development to the meeting, around 170,453 families
have registered their complaints at various agencies of the government
demanding that they should be included in the list of beneficiaries.
The report said that the
government couldn’t sign housing grant agreement with 845 families in Hatpate
VDC of Sindhuli as other households obstructed the agreement demanding to
address their complaints first.
Many families couldn’t sign the
agreement in Sindhupalchowk as their houses were constructed in unregistered
land.
Similarly, as the number of
households in the proposed Budhigandaki dam area in Dhading and Gorkha has yet
to be fixed, the agreement process has come to a halt there.
The grant agreement couldn’t be signed
with about 1,672 families in the Budhigandaki area in Gorkha alone.
Problems related to the
inheritance sharing of the land, migration, lack of land ownership certificates,
and absence of genuine beneficiaries obstructed making agreements and
distributing grants.
The number of families that
couldn’t sign the grant agreement due to Budhigandaki project stood at 3,560, those
living in the unregistered land are 7,884, those living in the land belonging
to the trust are 3,592, those living in the land prone to landslides are 1,392,
and those facing locals’ obstruction are 2,783.
Meanwhile, the government had
completed the survey of 104,558 families in the Kathmandu Valley.
Gyawali said that the reconstruction grant
signing programme would start in the Valley a couple of days.
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