Of the total
budget, the reconstruction body had received the authorisation for Rs. 109
billion.
But the NRA said
that it was unlikely to spend Rs. 28 billion out of authorised budget.
“However, about 70 to 75 per cent of remaining
Rs. 91 billion will be spent by the end of the current fiscal, July 15,” said
NRA spokesperson Yam Lal Bhoosal.
According to
him, as the house reconstruction process moved very slowly against the
expectation of the reconstruction body, budget couldn’t be spent. Meanwhile,
the reconstruction of the religious, cultural and historical heritages has
remained sluggish.
The
reconstruction process has remained so sluggish that only 544,996 families, in
the severely hit 14 districts, have received the first installment of the house
reconstruction grant out of total identified beneficiaries of 626,695.
Likewise, about
100,000 households have been listed as eligible to receive the grant in the
moderately hit 17 districts.
The government
had just finished the damage survey in those districts just a month ago, about
25 months after the devastating quake of 6.9 magnitude rocked the country.
Families in
those moderately-hit districts are signing the grant agreement with the
government.
According to
the NRA statistics, by the end of May, construction of about 57,700 houses has
started, 28,027 households have received the second tranche of the housing
grant while 46,296 families have applied for the same.
So far, only
906 houses were approved for the third tranche of the grant out of 2,527 houses
that applied for the final installment of the grant.
The
reconstruction body stated that the construction of 27,444 houses was
completed.
Finance Minister Krishna Bahadur
Mahara has allocated Rs. 146.18 billion for the post-quake reconstruction for
the next fiscal year 2017/18.
No comments:
Post a Comment