- Saturday, 6 December 2025
Kathmandu, Oct 7: The 19th meeting of the Disaster Reduction Council today decided to continue with the search and rescue of the people missing in the disaster. With this decision, the Council has directed the Ministry of Home Affairs and all the security bodies to engage in the search and rescue works.
It has decided to make arrangements for taking immediate steps for operating transport services and service delivery by clearing the road obstruction, regularizing the transport and other impediments in service delivery, establishing coordination among the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, the provincial governments and local levels.
Similarly, the Council made a decision requiring the bodies concerned to make arrangement for restoring drinking water and power supply and communications services at places where these services have been disrupted.
A policy has been determined so that relief would be distributed through the local levels from an integrated system so that there will be no duplication in the relief distribution.
The Council has also made a decision to move ahead through the Ministry of Home Affairs the task of providing relief to the families of the dead and missing people as per the existing laws and to make necessary arrangements from the Ministry of Health and Population to ensure the free treatment to the injured people.
Likewise, a decision has been made requiring the Ministry of Water Supply to prepare for supplying safe drinking water, and the Ministry of Health and Population to conduct public awareness and psycho-social support programmes and health camps in view of the possibility of spread of diseases in the aftermath of the disaster.
An arrangement would be made to initiate temporary housing construction process by identifying beneficiaries at collaboration of local levels for the citizens who have lost their houses and to immediately provide first tranche of grants as per Standard 2081.
The meeting also directed the Health Ministry to pay special attention in health service, cleanliness and medicine supply, urging the Education Ministry to provide space for construction of temporary shelters for recent disaster affected people at the school premises.
Extending gratitude towards Nepali Army, Armed Police Force Nepal, Nepal Police, Red Cross and other volunteer organisations for their active contribution in rescue operation and relief distribution, the meeting asked the Mental Health Section under the Health Ministry to run programme at coordination of local levels for psychological support.
Similarly, the meeting also passed a proposal of study regarding construction of houses for long-term preparation of emergency situation and strengthening coordination among ministries.
On the occasion, an extensive review was carried out about damages, rescue and rehabilitation after rainfall occurred from October 3 wreaked havoc in various places of the country.
The meeting also directed the Home Ministry and all security bodies to continue the search for the missing people and rescue operation.
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Flood affects over 1,000 houses in Sunsari
Inaruwa (Sunsari), Oct 7: More than 1,000 houses were affected from flood occurred with incessant rainfall on Saturday and Sunday in Sunsari district.
Superintendent of Police at the District Police Office, Keshav Thebe, shared that the flood had affected 1,370 houses at Inaruwa, Dharan, Itahari, Barahakshetra, Duhabi, Ramdhuni, Inaruwa, Gadhi, Barju, Koshi, Bhokraha, Harinagar and Dewangunj.
Total 5,474 people were directly affected from floods at different streams and rivers in the district and the houses were partly damaged by flood, he added.
Teams of security personnel had rescued 344 people trapped in flood, it was shared. Two hundred families of Inaruwa were displaced due to flood and dozens of settlements at Inaruwa municipality-3, 4, 9 and 10 were inundated.
Rain and wind damage maize crop
The rain and storm that lashed the district last Saturday caused significant damage to the maize crop in various places here.
The standing maize crop was damaged in areas including Bhokraha, Harinagar, and the district headquarters, Inaruwa.
Farmers who have been cultivating other crops along with commercial banana farming in the district are facing significant losses due to natural disasters.
Neelkamal Singh, head of the Agricultural Knowledge Centre in Sunsari, said banana is cultivated on 530 hectares in Sunsari district this year. Singh stated that details of the damage to the agricultural sector caused by the floods are being collected. —
