BHAKTAPUR, August 11: The flooding in the Manohara River on Tuesday night has damaged property worth Rs 7.5 million. Manohara river flows through the border of Kathmandu and Bhaktapur districts. The flood has destroyed landless squatters’ and other settlements on the banks of the river, infrastructures at Kadaghari Police Sector and Dibyashwori Land Integrated Project.
Lawmaker Mahesh Basnet and Bagmati Province Assembly member Pratima Shrestha visited the flood-hit areas and demanded the government address the problems of the flood-affected people immediately.
Similarly, a team comprising Madhyapur Thimi Mayor Surendra Shrestha and Deputy Mayor Bijay Krishna Shrestha visited the flood-hit areas and inquired about the loss caused by the flood.
Deputy Superintendent of Police at the Metropolitan Police Range, Bhaktapur, Raju Pandey said property worth Rs 7.5 million was destroyed as the flood swept away cattle and damaged food supplies.
A disaster management team of Nepal Red Cross Society, Bhaktapur, was mobilized at the flood-hit areas on Tuesday. The team was involved in rescue as well as relief distribution, said president of Nepal Red Cross Society, Bhaktapur, Manoj Kumar Thapa.
Details of the loss caused by the flood were collected on Wednesday and relief distribution to the flood-affected people was done today.
Chief of the Bhaktapur chapter of Nepal Red Cross Society, Uma Thapa shared that 16 houses and huts of landless squatters and 11 houses in the settlement above the landless squatters were demolished as well as more than 300 huts of landless squatters suffered damages.
Nepal Red Cross Society is distributing food stuffs as well as other goods to the flood-affected people.
(RSS)