2,000 plus houses fully damaged in Khotang from quake
Khotang, May 9,The District Natural Disaster Rescue Committee, Khotang, has
said that more than 2,110 houses were completely damaged in the district by the
devastative April 25 earthquake.
Coordinator of
the Committee and Chief District Officer Govinda Sapkota said that the number
of the destroyed houses could go up as the final reports from the remote areas
were not received yet. "All district-level mechanisms have been mobilized
to distribute the relief and collect the details of the damages," he
shared.
Likewise, 12,537
persons have been displaced after their houses collapsed while 4,986 houses got
partial damage and are not livable in Khotang.
Similarly, 18
government offices were completely destroyed while 55 other buildings have been
cracked, the office chiefs have reported.
In a bid to
support the quake affected, 13 different teams have been mobilized to
distribute relief materials while the Nepal Army and Armed Police Force (APF)
personnel have been deployed by establishing camps in the highly-affected
areas.
CDO Sapkota said
that so far Rs 6 million was received from the central level meant for quake
affected communities but the relief distribution team has face difficulties due
to lack of sufficient tents, mats, blankets and other relief materials.
Meanwhile, a
large number of quake affected families have complained that they were forced
to live under the open sky for not getting the relief materials.
Furthermore, an
all-party meeting has asked the government to declare as the crisis-ridden
district to Khotang and provide additional relief materials to the earthquake
survivors and affected.