KATHMANDU: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has provided financial support to 1,230 flood-affected families in Roshi rural municipality in the district.
The relief support was received through the WFP’s Nepal Office, the Roshi Rural Municipality Office said.
Twelve people were killed while 482 houses were completely damaged and 883 houses partially damaged in Roshi rural municipality due to the floods and landslides triggered by incessant rains on September 27 and 28.
The Rural Municipality Chairperson Dinesh Lama said that WFP directly transferred the cash relief support to the beneficiaries’ bank account, based on the number of the affected families. He said the cash has been deposited in the bank account of all the flood and landslide-affected people.
It is stated that WFP has provided Rs 15 thousand and Rs 20 thousand in line with the government’s policy of distributing the cash relief to the affected families on the basis of the family size.
Lama, the Rural Municipality Chairperson, said that 108 flood and landslide-hit families were provided with cash relief support through the Catholic Relief Service (CRS) before this.
The natural disaster damaged the cultivated land of 2,544 households, 160 water supply projects, one concrete bridge, 47 schools and four health centres in the rural municipality. The flood and landslide flooded and damaged the local Damphu Park, a 10-bed hospital and a cold storage facility.
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