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Floods Victims And Relief Supplies
Floods Victims And Relief Supplies
KTM Metro Reporter
August 17, 2017
Kathmandu: Most of the floods victims that have survived have had hard time to manage their lives. Some of them have lost their entire property including the food grains they have saved for months until the next crops, others have managed to have their houses standing but they lost their standing rice crops or hills crops such as maize and millet, too, worrying them how to survive the next few months. Most of them have taken shelter wherever possible. Others have to live under the open sky enduring the heavy rains of the monsoon.
The Home Minister has decided to stop the others to collect relief supplies and distribute believing many unscrupulous people have collected the money from the unsuspicious people ending up the money for the evening booze. So, the Home Minister might be right in stopping the others to collect donations from the people but stopping them to distribute relief supplies has been disastrous to not only the floods victims but also to the State agencies distributing the relief supplies, as they have had difficulty in reaching every floods victims.
Speaking to the anchor of the “antar-sambad” of the Radio Nepal morning program, lawmaker Dr Shekhar Koirala from Biratnagar today said that the one-door policy the State has adopted has been total failure in providing the relief supplies. He argues the State agencies such as local administrative office needs to monitor how the distribution of relief supplies has been done rather than engaging in relief distribution that has been a trifle. He said that he had been engaged in distributing some relief supplies such as tarps, and foods, and it would be months if not years before lives come to normal for the flood victims.
Billions of NPR would be require for the State to rehabilitate the thousands of bridges, culverts and roads, and even office buildings whereas the individuals also would need to spend a huge sum of money for bringing their lives back to normal.
Most of the Nepalese blames India for the floods in Nepal, as Indian authorities did not respond to the floods immediately and did not open up the dams built on the border and in other areas to release the flood water in time. Surely, India has unwisely earned ill will from most of not only floods victims but also from the media and common folks in general.
Leaders of Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal have ultimately wake up to the floods that have caused havoc in most of the Nepal taking the lives of 131 people and more than 50 people are reported to be still missing as of August 16, and they have demanded the government to provide the floods victims with the relief supplies on a par with the quake victims in other words floods victims need to receive NPR 3,00,000 as did the quake victims instead of what the government said to distribute NPR 2,00,000 per a dead person to the families of the floods victims.
