Nepal completes 83% of post-quake projects

Nepal’s National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) said that it has completed 83% of the country’s post-earthquake reconstruction.

The NRA, established to fast track the reconstruction process, entered the fifth year on Wednesday, reports Xinhua news agency.

The deadly earthquakes on April 25 and May 12 in 2015 in the country claimed the lives of 8,790 people while injuring 22,300 others, damaging private and public properties worth $7.06bn, according to the Post Disaster Need Assessment made by the Nepali government in collaboration with foreign donors.

Nearly 900,000 individual houses were either fully or partially damaged while a large number of public infrastructure including schools, health posts, offices of security agencies and heritage sites were also damaged.

NRA chief executive officer Sushil Gyawali told media yesterday that the reconstruction of 69% individual houses and other public infrastructure has already been completed.

“The reconstruction is undergoing in 14% individual houses and public infrastructure. The combining progress of the completed and under-construction works stands at 83%.”

The government has been providing Rs300,000 ($2,624) in grants to each family, whose house was completely destroyed and has no other accommodation facility.

Of the total 780,165 beneficiaries of the government’s grant, 482,323 beneficiaries have completed rebuilding their homes, according to the NRA.