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Rs 60 million for displaced people goes down drain
SANKHUWASABHA, SEP 08 -
A large sum of money meant for the settlement of landslide displaced people in Sankhuwasabha district has not been utilised.
Around Rs. 60 million was set aside for building huts, school and toilets as part of rehabilitating 62 households of Sikidim in Tamku-9, who are forced to live at Manetar-5 by a landslide last year.
Various government agencies, NGOs and foreign donors as well as local organisations had lend their helping hands for their settlement in 65 ropani of land where Rural Reconstruction Organisation constructed huts with corrugated tin roofing worth Rs. 2.3 million.
The infrastructure at the site is on the verge of collapse as the victims are about to return to their home.
A district-based government officer, Rajiv Pokharel, said that the financial assistance and investment went out of use as the displaced are returning to their homes at Sikidim even after they were warned of possible risk of another landslip.
According to Nepal Red Cross Society, Sankhuwasabha, the village at high landslide risk is unliveable.
The displaced said such a warning would not discourage them from living at their birthplace.
“We want to cultivate crops on our land. Soon we will go back there,” said displaced people’s leader Tul Bahadur Kulung.
Posted on: 2010-09-09 08:21
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