Lalitpur, Oct. 6: The National Reconstruction
Authority (NRA) has urged the locals of Bungmati, a small town 10 km south of
Kathmandu, to develop the historic town in its original form.
Many private houses and religious-cultural heritages
were damaged in the devastating 2015 Gorkha Earthquake.
To support and promote the original rebuilding of
the heritage settlements like Bungmati, the NRA has announced various
programmes, Chief Executive Officer of the NRA Sushil Gyawali said at an
interaction here on Saturday.
“The government will provide additional Rs. 50,000 to
each reconstruction beneficiary to maintain the heritage look of their house.
Therefore, you should work to create attractive look in your town,” he said.
He also said that the reconstruction would support
in developing infrastructure in the town.
According to Gyawali, the NRA had unveiled the
Bungmati Master-Plan from President Bidya Devi Bhandari a couple of years ago
and wanted to inaugurate the settlement from the prime minister.
Participants of the interaction said that the
original form of the houses and heritages in Bungmati would be an attraction
for tourists.
Lawmaker from the region, Pampha Bhusal said that
she had a plan to develop a heritage ring road around the town and expressed
her support for every need for the original rebuilding.
“Prosperity of this area is possible only through
the preservation of arts, culture and heritages,” she said.
Parliamentarian of Province Assembly, Jiban Khadka
said that the locals had a crucial role to play in implementing the Bungmati
development master-plan.
According to Bungmati Area Reconstruction and
Development Council Prem Bhakta Maharjan, of the 805 households that signed the
housing grant agreement with the government, 593 have obtained the first
installment. But, very few families have received the second installment.
He said that reasons behind the poor progress in the
reconstruction of private houses
were inability in the part of the
beneficiaries to develop house map, difficulty to pass house-map in the
heritage area and lack of registration of the land.
The then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had unveiled
the map of Bungmati Master-Plan in January 2015.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 7 October 2018.
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