Kathmandu, Apr. 25: The Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) have
spent less than 50 per cent budget in more than three years against their
commitment made for the post-quake reconstruction.
About 202 NGOs and International NGOs have committed to
mobilise Rs. 57.31 billion budget for the reconstruction of private houses, and
education and health facilities but Rs. 27.28 billion is utilised so far.
According to the NGO Coordination Division at the National
Reconstruction Authority (NRA), tripartite agreement was signed with 202 NGOs
for the reconstruction of 293 projects.
“The NGOs were taken the responsibility of rebuilding 30 private housing projects, 183
educational institutions, 19 health facilities and 61 livelihood, training and
water and sanitation projects,” said the division.
They have taken the responsibility of constructing about
22,000 private houses of which about 20,000 have received the first instalment
of the housing grant and about 16,000 houses have been rebuilt.
However, only 13,000 households have received the third
tranche of the grant which shows that the rest of the houses have been rebuilt
but yet to receive the grant money.
Similarly, of the 829 schools and 87 health facilities being
rebuilt by the NGOs, 442 schools and 55 health buildings are completed.
The NGOs involved in the post-quake reconstruction in the
country have failed to fulfil their commitments to create human resources
required for the ‘build back better’ campaign.
They have planned to provide on the job training (OJT) to
about 36,780 people but only 13,366 have been trained on carpentry, masonry,
plumbing and electrical.
Specially, lack of youth in the village has caused less
participation in masonry. Of the targeted 35,167 masons, only 12,295 have
received the OJT.
However, short training on those skills was more successful
and more than 50,000 masons were created. Similarly, 1230 carpenters, 270
electricians and 83 plumbers were also created.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 26 April 2019.
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