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Rescue And Relief Of Floods Victims In Nepal
Rescue And Relief Of Floods Victims In Nepal
KTM Metro Reporter
August 14, 2017
Kathmandu: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is visiting the floods-affected areas for inspection today. Half of Nepal has been under water. More than 70 people have been confirmed dead, some might be confirmed later on, as more than 50 people have been reported missing. Maybe, many more are unaccounted for, as the news has not reached the police or the local administration.
About 80 percent of rice fields have been flooded in Terai and the hills making the possibility of the damage to the rice crop this year. Loss of small and large livestock also has been reported. Many people have lost their belongings including the foods stored for months to the floods. Most of the people ran for their lives not taking anything with them.
At the cabinet meeting held yesterday, the government has decided to provide the families of the dead persons due to the floods with NPR 200,000 per dead person. Members of the cabinet also decided to donate one-month salary to the Prime Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund. NC lawmakers also have decided to donate their one-month salary to the Prime Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund.
Federation of Nepal Chamber of Industry and Commerce declared to provide the floods victims with NPR 10 million worth of cash and rescue supplies. Non-resident Nepalis have set up a fund for the relief of the floods victims with NPR 10 million. Similarly, local business organizations, philanthropic organizations and professional organizations have set up their relief funds for providing the floods victims with relief supplies.
Members of newly elected local units such as village councils and municipalities in cooperation with the local administration, and other agencies have been engaged in relief and rescue operations. Army and police have been working days and nights on rescue and relief operations. However, some floods victims have complained that nobody has come to them with foods, water and other essential supplies.
Helicopters, rafts, motorboats and even elephants have been rescuing many people stranded at any places by the floods. Tourists stranded at the Chitwan hotels have been rescued. Many animals in the Chitwan National park have swum to the safe places.
Some visitors have been stranded at Lukla: near the Mount Everest base camp, as regular flights have been disrupted for the last five days because of rains and clouds on the way and at the airport. They will be back to Kathmandu as soon as the weather permits.
Some Indian pilgrims visiting Mansorbar-kailash have been stranded at Simikot, as airplanes could not fly in from Nepalgunj. More than one-hundred-Indian pilgrims have been staying in hotels at Simikot waiting for any aircraft coming in. A number of flights will be made as soon as the weather permits, according to the travel agencies operating the flights and the airlines people.
Hundreds of bridges have been at risk of breaking down, highways and roads have been damaged at many places causing the vehicles stranded at various places. Possibility of short supply of daily-need goods might be in the coming days.
State agencies such as Home Ministry, Defense Ministry and Health Ministry have been active to bring the lives of the people to normal as soon as possible, and to make sure that law and order prevail, and nobody took any undue advantage of short supply of goods and services. Health Ministry has been working on avoiding any possible epidemic due to the floods.
The water level at most of the major rivers has come down to the regular level for the monsoon season, the professionals at the Department of Meteorology have stated. They also said that the monsoon is receding, so no more heavy rains will be but rains will continue for some days to come.
