NRA to send complians to the local bodies

Kathmandu, Feb. 28: The National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) is preparing to send the complaints it received from the quake-affected households that missed the chance to get included in the list of the beneficiaries, and collected during the re-examination of the quake damaged houses, to the local level.  

It said that more than 100,000 complaints received through both the channels would be sent to the local governments by February 14 for the final authentication.

A meeting of the Central Compliant Management Committee on Wednesday analysed all the complaints and included the respective families under the categories as ‘Potential Reconstruction Beneficiary’, ‘Retrofitting Beneficiary’ and ‘Non-eligible’. 

The meeting, coordinated by NRA Executive Committee Member Hari Ram Parajuli, took a decision to send the list to the local level for final authentication. 

In order to address the demand of the quake-affected families that couldn’t find their names in the government beneficiaries’ list due to various reasons, the reconstruction body had conducted re-examination and survey in all quake-affected districts. 

Joint Secretary of the NRA Netra Subedi said that the list would be finalised after the local bodies give their final say on it. 

About 130,000 complaints were registered during the re-examination in the severely-hit 14 districts.

Meanwhile, the reconstruction body has initiated its welfare works of constructing homes for the senior citizens and physically challenged persons. 

It has formulated a procedure to build home for the senior citizens above 70 years of age, single and disabled women above 65 years of age, physically challenged individuals such as visually impaired and those having red and blue cards, and minors. 

According to the primary data collection, there are 16,205 such individuals in 14 quake-hit districts. The NRA has asked the local bodies to send the data of citizens, who need government support in their respective area.

Once the data collection is concluded, the NRA will call various humanitarian organisations to support in building homes for those people.

“The NRA will hold discussions with national and international humanitarian organisations as well as non-government organisations regarding the house construction for the physically challenged quake-victims,” the NRA said. 

Published in The Rising Nepal on 29 February 2018.