KATHMANDU: The government has decided to provide Rs 50 million each to quake-hit Jajarkot and Rukum Paschim districts. The amount would be ensured through the central relief management fund.
A meeting held under the chairmanship of Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kani Shrestha took this decision today. Similarly, the relief distribution would be enforced via one-door system.
The immediate needs as blanket, tarpaulin sheets, and food stuffs were supplied to the quake-hit areas, while the province government and district management committees were directed to inform on time in case of further need, DPM Shrestha shared.
“Adequate workforce was mobilized from the concerned district disaster mechanisms. Search and rescue of the victims and relief distribution were also intensified with robust coordination among the federal, provincial and local governments,” DPM Shrestha informed the meeting participants.
The Road Department was asked to immediately clear the road obstruction to ease transportation, according to him.
Moreover, various teams of health and medical persons had reached the quake-hit areas along with medicines.
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