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Economic And Human Losses Due To Floods
Economic And Human Losses Due To Floods
KTM Metro Reporter
August 19, 2017
Kathmandu: More than ten billion worth of agricultural crops such as rice crops, vegetable crops, fruit crops, and livestock loss has been reported. Industrial losses have to come, yet but the most of the factories located at the industrial corridor in the Terai belt have raw materials and finished products under water during the floods making the raw materials and products useless. Most of the laborers have been the victims of the floods and have been absent from the work. Most of the factories could not operate either due to the absent of laborers or due to the power outage caused by the floods.
Shortage of petroleum products have been already felt in Kathmandu, as the highways and roads have been blocked and tankers could not reach Kathmandu. Prices of vegetables have gone up in Kathmandu, as the trucks could not move or because floods have destroyed the vegetables crops. The State-owned dairy company: Dairy Development Corporation has increased the price of the two percent milk by eight rupees per liter. Thus, the price of the two percent milk has gone up from 64 rupees per liter to 72 since August 17, 2017.
The Biratnagar Airport is going to open today. Some patients waiting for flying to Kathmandu have been waiting for seven days or more, as the floods in the airport did not permit to fly in airplanes. The Lukla Airport has not been operating, too causing hundreds of visitors stranded at the Everest Region. Some of them have walked down to find an alternative to reach Kathmandu others have charted helicopters and fly back to Kathmandu.
Hearing on the petition filed against the one-door policy of the government on providing the recent floods victims with the relief supplies, a single bench of the Supreme Court has ruled stopping the government not enforce the one-door policy, as it has delayed the distribution of the relief supplies to the floods victims.
The government has decided to provide the floods victims with 70 rupees per day per person for a month in cash rather than supplies. With this amount of money, every flood victims could buy at least three to four glasses of milk tea a day and keep warm.
Yesterday evening, Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi made a telephone call to his counterpart in Nepal Sher Bahadur Deuba and offered his sincere condolence on the loss of lives and property in Nepal, and offered 250 million rupees for the relief of the flood victims in Nepal. Prime Minster Modi could have saved those lives and property had he ordered to open up the dams built on the border between Nepal and India just on time and let the water go. By the time, the Indian authorities opened up the dams; large quantity of water has been accumulated to cause floods in India.
The government has reported that 135 Nepalese have lost the lives, and 35 have been missing and 41 have been injured due to the floods. The State machinery has been working hard to reach every flood victim with relief supplies, according the State media.
Speaking at the Teej event in Baglung: mid western Nepal yesterday, NC leader Gagan Thapa said that the dams India built have caused the floods havoc in Nepal; so, all political parties united together need to talk to the Indian authorities firmly to tear down those dams, the news in “gorkhapatra” of today stated.
