BAGLUNG: Minister for Home Affairs, Ram Bahadur Thapa today distributed relief materials to flood victims of Dhorpatan and carried out onsite visit of flood-hit area of Dhorpatan municipality-9.
A team comprising Home Minister Thapa and member of House of Representatives (HoR), Debendra Poudel had reached Dhorptan with relief materials such as tents, mats and other materials.
On the occasion, Home Minister Thapa assured the people that the government would help to provide relief and resettlement to flood affected people.
He said that the government was with the people in the hour of pain and hard time.
The government, he said, would provide Rs 200 thousand each to the families of those who lost their lives in flood.
Likewise, lawmaker Poudel expressed commitment to provide Rs 300 thousand for the reconstruction to the locals whose houses sustained complete damages in the flood.
Poudel said he would take initiative for the repair and upgrading of Saljhandi-Dhorpatan road section, damaged by the flood.
Wednesday’s flood on Bhujikhola had caused huge of loss of lives and property at Dhorpatan municipality-7, 8 and 9.
Of the missing, bodies of 14 locals have been found so farm according to the District Police Office.
Police Inspector at the Area Police Office, Prakash Singh Bhandari, said that search and rescue operation is underway.
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