Kathmandu. A total of Rs 75.2 million has been deposited in the fund set up for the reconstruction, economic revival, relief and rehabilitation of physical infrastructures damaged by the Jenji movement.

A meeting of the Physical Reconstruction Committee formed to make the reconstruction of public and government physical infrastructures systematic and effective today was held under the chairmanship of Finance Minister Rameshwor Khanal.

The budget collected in the fund would be used to prepare detailed engineering design of the damaged public infrastructures and prepare a report for the reconstruction, to resume the service by immediately repairing the public infrastructures and to spend it in economic reconstruction, relief and rehabilitation programmes.

The government has allocated Rs 3.5 million to prepare detailed engineering design and reconstruction report of government and public buildings across the country.

The government has allocated Rs 20 million and Rs 15 million for the programmes to be implemented through the Department of Urban Development and Building Construction and Building Construction and Construction Office and the Federal Secretariat Construction and Management Office respectively. Likewise, two crore rupees has been allocated for the immediate maintenance of public infrastructures to be implemented by the same department.

The Federal Secretariat Construction and Management Office has allocated one crore rupees for the immediate maintenance of the public infrastructures and to start the service. The department has allocated Rs 50 lakh to run economic revival, relief and rehabilitation programmes.

The meeting also decided to run a separate website to make the amount collected in the fund and the works of the Physical Infrastructure Reconstruction Committee public and to maintain transparency.