Coordination with China to share disaster information
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Kathmandu. Kathmandu: Necessary coordination will be increased in the context of information gathering with China and minimizing the damage caused by disasters as the glacial lakes in the upper catchment area of the rivers flowing through Nepal have started causing huge damage.
Addressing TAG_OPEN_div_23 a press conference today, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRMA) decided to increase coordination for information collection and disaster management related works, according to NRA Executive Chief Dinesh Bhatta. “It has been decided to increase coordination with China and carry out a detailed study on the information and coordination of possible disasters,” he said. ”
The Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council chaired by the Prime Minister TAG_OPEN_div_21 has decided that the Ministry of Home Affairs will make arrangements to provide immediate relief to the families of those killed and missing in the Rasuwa floods as per the prevailing laws and the Ministry of Health and Population will make arrangements for free treatment of the injured, he said.
Meeting to connect Nepal-China
He informed TAG_OPEN_div_18 that it has been decided to coordinate with friendly country China through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to rebuild the bridge and road and operate the Rasuwagadhi border point as the Miteri bridge has been washed away.
Similarly, it TAG_OPEN_div_16 has been decided to make arrangements for the operation of road infrastructure, customs, immigration and hydropower projects at the earliest, he said. It has also been decided to make arrangements for facilitation in other processes including insurance of containers, vehicles and other materials of the entrepreneurs and to coordinate with the concerned bodies of friendly country China for necessary studies to identify the causes of the disaster, he said.
He also informed that a detailed damage assessment of the floods would be carried out, china would be requested for the construction of miteri bridge and other infrastructure repairs would be carried out through the concerned ministries. TAG_OPEN_div_14 He said that preliminary estimates have been made that the incident took place due to the release of water from the glacial lake and there was no rain in the area at that time. The reason can be ascertained only after a detailed study, he added.
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