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Budget Allocated for Flood Victims Frozen

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July 20: More than half of the budget allocated for flood victims of Banke and Bardiya have been frozen as the government authorities couldn’t distribute the amount on time. The government had allocated Rs 495 million for the flood victims of the two district in the last fiscal year but Rs 300 million remained unspent.

The amount was sent as relief for 1,652 victims of Banke and 3,579 victims of Bardiya. The amount was released after a long wait but the victims couldn’t fully benefit from it as the government decided to distribute the relief amount in installments.

As per the government decision, 3,248 victims of Bardiya and 612 victims of Banke received the first installment worth Rs 50,000 per  family, according to engineer Homnath Bhusal of the Urban Development and Building Division Office which distributed the amount.

The government had spent around Rs 193 million in the first installment.

Officials at the urban development office say that they failed to distribute the amount since the government released a large sum unexpectedly and they had trouble in facilitating banking process. They informed that the distribution was also partly affected by the elections.

The government had announced to provide Rs 350,000 to the victim families who did not own any land and Rs 300,000 to those families having land of their own.

More than 13,000 households had been displayed in the two districts due to floods in the Rapti river on August 14, 2014 caused by the Laxmanpur dam and Kalkala embankment built by India. 

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