TAPLEJUNG, July 16: Sixty-four households at Odak of Maiwakhola Rural Municipality-4 in Taplejung are to be evacuated to safety. The settlement has been facing a constant risk of floods and landslides for two weeks due to monsoon rains.
The local disaster management committee meeting on Saturday agreed to build temporary shelters at ward no 3 promptly to shift the vulnerable households, according to rural municipality chair Bijay Prakash Wanem. The hut construction project will commence on July 23.
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The evacuation works will take place under coordination of various local agencies. People of Odak have suffered the most in the entire rural municipality from monsoon-related consequences. Bridges along the local rivers and rivulets have been swept away by floods and ground cracking is common at various places.
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