Kathmandu, Jan. 14: The National
Reconstruction Authority (NRA) has started homework to establish earthquake
museum and research centre of international standards.
Earthquake memorial parks will
also be constructed in Gorkha and Sindhupalchowk districts, NRA Chief Executive
Officer Sushil Gyawali said in the National Reconstruction Consultation Council
(NRCC) meeting chaired by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli at the PM’s Residence,
Baluwatar on Monday.
He said that collaboration among
the three levels of the governments would be forged as per the constitutional
arrangements on disaster management and knowledge, skill and experiences
related to reconstruction would be shared.
"We have started a process
to handover information system at the NRA to the federal, provincial and local
governments," he said.
Gyawali said that disaster risk
mapping would be executed at every local body and the information would be used
as the foundation for the land use plan and building code preparation in the
respective local unit.
Special support programmes to the
municipalities and rural municipalities are in the offing to implement the
national building code.
According to the NRA, private
house of the beneficiaries, who received the first installation of the housing
grant by the end of the last fiscal year 2017/18, would be reconstructed by the
end of the current fiscal year.
Similarly, compliant hearing and re-survey
would be completed by mid-March this year and the first tranche of the grant
would be distributed to all by the end of the current fiscal year.
It also said that reconstruction
of private houses would be completed by the next fiscal.
The meeting started in the
evening and was attended by the former prime ministers, deputy prime ministers,
ministers, lawmakers from the districts severely hit by the quake and experts.
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