Karnali
government set to begin rebuilding
earthquake-damaged schools, hospitals : Official
records show 34,501 houses in Jajarkot, 16,909
in Rukum West and over 4,600 in Salyan were
damaged or destroyed by the November 2023
earthquake, by Tripti Shahi (kp 29/11/2024)
Barpak’s
architectural heritage diminishes as modernity
takes hold (kh 07/10/2024)
Federal
govt allocates Rs 21.6 billion for post-quake
reconstruction (rep 29/05/2024)
Funds
secured to rebuild 700 quake-damaged school
buildings (kh 25/03/2024)
Historical
palaces, public buildings hit by Jajarkot
earthquake await reconstruction : More than 300
government-owned and community buildings in
Jajarkot were damaged by the earthquake.
Thousands of people are still living in tents,
by Krishna Prasad Gautam and Harihar Singh Rathour
(kp 12/01/2024)
Work
On Reconstruction Roadmap, by Ballav Dahal
(rn 20/11/2023)
No
new entity needed for reconstruction : One year
is not enough. We need at least two years to
rebuild damaged structures, interview with
Thira Lal Bhusal (kp 13/11/2023)
State
of unpreparedness : The Jajarkot quake proved
the rationale of federalism with generously
devolved power to local governments, by
Achyut Wagle (kp 07/11/2023)
In
pictures: Reconstructing temples of Hanumandhoka
premises (rn 15/08/2023)
Quake-devastated
Tatopani bazaar crying for reconstruction
(rep 13/07/2023)
Reconstruction
of 274 schools completed (ht 14/05/2023)
Restoration
of quake-damaged Gorkha Durbar temples and
monuments nearing completion : Both the Gorkha
Durbar and the temple were built by King Ram
Shah around 400 years ago, by Hariram Upreti
(kp 01/04/2023)
Construction
cost of Dharahara increases by Rs 120 million
due to cost variation of raw materials, by
Himal Lamsal (rep 23/02/2023)
Reconstruction
of 38 heritages completes at Basantapur (kh
23/01/2023)
Fourteen
years since reconstruction started, Achham
Durbar is still incomplete : The palace, built
150 years ago by Achhami King Tikabhuk Shah, was
ravaged in a Maoist bomb attack in 2002, by
Menuka Dhungana (kp 23/08/2022)
People
displaced by the earthquake in Rasuwa are still
awaiting resettlement : As many as 174
quake-displaced families are staying in
temporary shelters at Khalte, by Balaram
Ghimire (kp 13/05/2022) [They
urgently need the right to vote "None of them"!]
Quake-damaged
schools finally rebuilt in Baglung local unit :
Half a dozen schools had been conducting classes
out in the open since the earthquakes damaged
their buildings, by Prakash Baral (kp
20/03/2022)
200-year-old
Falcha reconstructed in Pulchowk (kh
19/03/2022)
Rising
from the rubble : The earthquake that hit Nepal
in 2015 had devastated the country’s rich
cultural heritage and left the Kathmandu
Valley's three former royal squares in the
rubble (photo feature) (nlt 13/03/2022)
Prabhat
Kiran school in Gorkha fails to get donors for
reconstruction : The school gained popularity
after Prince Harry helped in its reconstruction
in 2016, by Hariram Upreti (kp 24/02/2022)
Dalit
Community In Earthquake-Hit Barpak Still Under
Makeshift Huts, by Narendra Dhakal (rn
12/02/2022)
SC
Order To Be Followed To Place Old Idols At
Kasthamandap (rn 27/01/2022)
Six
years on, many quake victims in Capital Valley
unable to rebuild houses, by Indira Aryal
(rn 09/01/2022)
Dolakha
residents chip in to restore quake-ravaged
heritage structures : Six years after the
devastating earthquake, authorities including
the Department of Archaeology have yet to take
any concrete initiative to restore heritage
sites, by Kedar Shiwakoti (kp 26/12/2021)
Reconstruction
of 30 heritages at Hanumandhoka Durbar area
completed (rep 26/12/2021)
NRA's
term comes to an end (ht 24/12/2021)
Sindhuli
Quake Victims Not Getting Govt Grant, by
Baburam Devkota (rn 18/12/2021)
Shrines
rebuilding handed over to Archaelogy Department
: The National Reconstruction Authority was
carrying out the reconstruction work of
earthquake-ravaged monasteries in Gorkha before
its dissolution in mid-November, by Hariram
Upreti (kp 17/12/2021)
Green,
resilient and inclusive development : The
Conference on Nepal’s Reconstruction highlighted
lessons learned from the earthquake recovery,
by Faris Hadad-Zervos and John Roome (kp
13/12/2021)
A
test of patience : Buddhist communities whose
monasteries were damaged by the 2015 earthquakes
express frustration at the delay in
reconstruction, by Pasang Dorjee (kp
09/12/2021)
Post-earthquake
reconstruction 90 percent complete: FinMin
Sharma (rep 08/12/2021)
A
place to call home, away from home : A
bittersweet resettlement experience for Dolakha
women who survived earthquakes, landslides, and
floods, by Nisha Rai and Shanta Thapa (nlt
30/11/02021)
Reconstruction
of 50,000 India- funded houses in Gorkha and
Nuwakot districts completed (rep 15/11/2021)
Dharahara
Tower Achieves 70% Reconstruction Progress,
by Bishnu Pandey (rn 13/11/2021), Dharahara
reconstruction slows down after premature
inauguration, by Himal Lamsal (rep
25/11/2021)
Reconstruction
of Lo Gekar monastery begins with US pledge of
$285,000 (kh 09/11/2021)
In
reconstruction, local ownership goes a long way
: Bhaktapur shows how prioritizing community
ownership over foreign aid can help in
reconstruction even as Kathmandu remains locked
in a confusing mess of national and
international stakeholders, by Prasansha
Rimal and Sanjeet M. Rajbhandari (rec 08/10/2021)
Restoring
a piece of Nepal’s history : Destroyed in the
1934 earthquake, the Bhaidega Temple in Patan
was being rebuilt when the 2015 disaster struck,
by Sahina Shrestha (nt 08/10/2021)
Remaining
post-earthquake reconstruction to be carried out
thru coordination (kh 05/10/2021)
No
takers for houses at Dolakha integrated
settlement : A majority of beneficiaries have
decided to stay back in their old village
because they do not want to leave behind their
farmland and cattle. The integrated settlement
has been constructed for the quake-displaced
Thamicommunity, by Kedar Shiwakoti (kp
26/09/2021)
Kamal
Pokhari Pond Achieves 95% Reconstruction
Progress (rn 26/09/2021)
Concern
grows over reconstruction authority taking
charge of Ghantaghar project : Conservationists
say the job of retrofitting the clock tower
should be given to local government as the
National Reconstruction Authority’s term is
expiring in three months, by Anup Ojha (kp
22/09/2021)
96
percent of reconstruction of Kasthamandap
completed (kh 18/09/2021)
Lalitpur’s
Balkumari temple reconstruction gains momentum
(kh 08/09/2021)
Earthquake
Victims Of Barpak Dalit Settlement Await
Reconstruction, by Narendra Dhakal (rn
04/09/2021)
MoUs
signed for reconstruction of 14 cultural
heritage sector projects, 103 health sector
projects across Nepal (rep 03/09/2021)
Reconstruction
work to be handed over to concerned bodies
(kh 26/08/2021)
Reconstruction
Of 587 Temples Complete (rn 21/08/2021)
Reconstruction
Of 27 Heritages In Durbar Square Completed,
by Sharmila Pathak (rn 13/08/2021)
More
than one lakh beneficiaries reconstructed houses
last fiscal : There has been significant
progress in reconstruction work despite the
pandemic (ht 09/08/2021)
Reconstruction
of 88 school buildings completed (kh
07/08/2021)
Earthquake-ravaged
375 school building reconstructed (kh
04/08/2021)
858,282
beneficiaries confirmed for housing
reconstruction (ht 07/07/2021)
Reconstruction
of Gorkha Durbar nears completion, by
Hariram Upreti (kp 27/06/2021)
National
Reconstruction Authority to function till
mid-Nov (ht 25/06/2021)
Reconstruction
of 93 per cent of private houses completed : NRA
(ht 24/04/02021)
330-kg
pinnacle installed on top of Dharahara (kh
22/04/2021), Billions
spent on Dharahara but school reconstruction
suffering in lack of funds : Reconstruction of
college buildings damaged in the 2015
earthquakes is yet to begin as the government
only recently decided to take Indian loan
despite stringent conditions, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 23/04/2021)
Restoration
of quake-ravaged Sital Pati at Gorkha Durbar
completed : Reconstruction works started in
January last year, nearly five years after the
disaster, by Hariram Upreti (kp 18/04/2021)
Miracle
Boy, six years after Nepal quake : Baby survived
being buried under the rubble for 22 hours, but
his family still struggles to cope, by
Monika Deupala (nt 16/04/2021)
22-storey
Dharahara to be inaugurated on April 24 (rep
14/04/2021)
Reconstruction
of Pashupatinath area gains no momentum : Only
50 out of 105 reconstructed in six years, by
Sabina Karki (kh 06/04/2021)
Conservationists
accuse Pashupati trust of gross negligence in
post-quake reconstruction : They say the trust
is doing more harm than good by using concrete
and altering structures of monuments, by
Anup Ojha (kp 19/03/2021)
Ramechhap
earthquake survivors have no proper homes even
six years after disaster : Three integrated
settlements remain incomplete as the National
Reconstruction Authority has not issued funds,
by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp 16/02/2021) [The early elections ordered
by Oli, which are completely unnecessary, are
certainly considerably more expensive!]
Reconstruction
of quake-ravaged health posts gains momentum in
Makwanpur : The Gorkha Earthquake and its
powerful aftershocks in 2015 had destroyed the
buildings of nine health posts in the district,
by Pratap Bista (kp 07/02/2021)
Department
of Archaeology to inspect Kamal Pokhari
restoration site : Heritage conservationists
have criticised Kathmandu Metropolitan City for
disregarding the historic, cultural and
ecological values of the pond in the name of
beautification project, by Anup Ojha
(kp 27/01/2021)
Reconstruction
of quake-damaged school buildings near
completion (kp 12/01/2021) [related to
Sindhupalchok only]
Reconstruction
of 465 heritage sites over (ht 11/01/2021)
Contractor
misses second deadline of Gorkha Durbar
restoration project : Local residents blame the
delay on the contractor company and the
Department of Archaeology, by Hariram Upreti
(kp 10/01/2021)
Post-Quake
Reconstruction: Over 23,000 Private Houses And
1,000 Classrooms Reconstructed In Makawanpur
(rn 29/12/2020), 23,000
houses, 1,000 classrooms reconstructed (ht
30/12/2020)
NRA
completes five years of establishment :
Rebuilding of 91pc private houses destroyed in
2015 quakes either finished or under way (ht
26/12/2020)
Govt
Extends Term Of National Reconstruction
Authority (rn 10/12/20209
41,971
homes built in Ramechhap (ht 09/12/2020)
NRA’s
tenure extended by one more year (kh
07/12/2020)
Nearly
47,000 private houses rebuilt in four months
(ht 06/12/2020)
Earthquake
survivors say houses built for them have weak
doors and windows : Only 16 families have moved
to the new settlement built by the Non-Resident
Nepali Association for 573 earthquake-displaced
families in Gupsipakha, Gorkha (kp
05/12/2020)
NRA
claims 606 thousand 505 private houses rebuilt
post- Gorkha Earthquake (rep 27/11/2020)
Beneficiaries
leave housing reconstruction incomplete, by
Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp 18/11/2020)
11,000
quake-hit houses rebuilt in Rasuwa, by
Himnath Devkota (rep 10/11/2020)
Kasthamandap
reconstruction nearing completion (ht
08/11/2020)
NRA
Sets New Deadline To Obtain Housing Grant
(rn 07/11/2020)
Covid-19
pandemic hitsNuwakot palace restoration : The
Sat Tale Durbar was destroyed in 2015
earthquake and it currently stands propped
up by iron poles, by Krishna Thapa (kp
16/10/2020)
Building
back safer : Local, sustainable solutions needed,
by Dipendra Gautam (ht 15/10/2020)
Assessing
the cracks in reconstruction process : The
government and NRA, through numbers and visual
narratives, presented a success story of the
reconstruction but social and political cracks
that appeared following the earthquake were
different, by Gaurab KC (rep 12/10/2020)
Recollecting
post-earthquake reconstruction : The credit for
the success of reconstruction process solely
goes to the earthquake survivors themselves who
managed the money by borrowing loans from
various sources, by Gaurab KC (rep
05/10/2020)
National
Reconstruction Authority seeks one-year tenure
extension (ht 23/09/2020)
Restoration
of historical Ranipokhari almost completed,
by Ujjwal Satyal (rn 20/09/2020), Ranipokhari
Filled With 27 Million Litres Of Water (rn
22/09/2020)
Around
750 quake displaced families live in
landslide-prone settlements in Rasuwa : While
some families have taken grants from the
government to buy a plot of land, most are
awaiting relocation to integrated settlements
built by the government, by Balaram Ghimire
(kp 19/09/2020)
Post-quake
Reconstruction : Learn From China, by Jiba
Raj Pokharel (rn 04/09/2020)
NRA
Consulting Options To Refill Rani Pokhari
(rn 12/08/2020)
85
Per Cent Beneficiaries Receive Second
Installment (rn 28/07/2020)
Reconstruction
of earthquake-ravaged Singha Durbar being
completed, by Kunga Hyolmo (rep 27/07/2020)
Building
back Rani Pokhari even better: The reconstructed
royal pond is beginning to resemble what it must
have looked like 350 years ago, by Suvexa
Pradhan Tuladhar (nt 24/07/2020)
More
than 500,000 quake-destroyed houses rebuilt:
NRA: At least 202,643 houses still
under-construction (rep 09/07/2020)
Five
years since the Gorkha earthquake, Nepal still
falls short: The country being in a
highly-vulnerable seismic zone, one would think
the government and society would plan better,
by Keshab Sharma (kp 17/05/2020)
Earthquake
reconstruction: no more excuses: Successive
governments have used feeble excuses to delay
reconstruction. But there is an opportunity now
to finish some priority projects (kp
13/05/2020)
Covid-19
outbreak affects reconstruction of heritage
sites in Kathmandu: Projects face labour crunch
due to the lockdown as most workers have
returned home, by Anup Ojha (kp 12/05/2020)
Reconstruction
Of Ranipokhari, Dharahara Resumes (rn
04/05/2020)
COVID-19
Likely To Delay Reconstruction Drive, by
Modnath Dhakal (rn 25/04/2020) [It is already extremely
delaid either!], Five
years after devastating quakes of April 2015,
reconstruction work still on: National
Reconstruction Authority likely to see tenure
extension, by Umesh Poudel (ht 25/04/2020),
More
than 55pc heritage sites await reconstruction
(ht 25/04/2020), Quake
survivors struggle in crammed homes, housing
grant insufficient (ht 25/04/2020)
2015
earthquake: Over Rs 381 billion spent on
reconstruction (kh 24/04/2020), Five
years after the 2015 earthquake, Gorkha stands
strong, by Narahari Sapkota (rep 24/04/2020)
Lockdown
affects reconstruction activities (ht
10/04/2020) [And what
has been the reason in the years before?]
Quake-displaced
people reeling under food crisis (ht
05/04/2020)) [All
governments since 2015 share responsibility for
this continued situation!]
Rebuilding
five years after 2015 quake: A new Disaster
Management Authority has taken over to prepare
for the next big earthquake, by Alisha
Sijapati (nt 20/03/2020)
Police
post structures in rural Gorkha in poor
conditions: Five years since the earthquakes
destroyed existing structures, police posts in
rural Gorkha are operating from tents, by
Hariram Upreti(kp 11/03/2020)
As
Rani Pokhari restoration project nears
completion, reconstruction authority are unsure
how to replenish the iconic pond: Boring water
system cannot generate 32.1 million litres of
water for the pond, officials say, by Anup
Ojha (kp 03/03/2020)
'70%
reconstruction work completed in Sindhuli'
(rep 01/03/2020)
Quake
victims still deprived of relief (rep
19/02/2020)
Over
thousand earthquake victims seek housing grant
(ht 14/01/2020) [related to Dolakha]
Reconstruction
of 400 heritages over (rep 10/02/2020)
NRA
to remove 4,366 earthquake victims from
beneficiary list (kp 07/02/2020)
A
majority of community schools destroyed in the
2015 earthquake yet to be constructed: For lack
of proper infrastructure, a school in Sindhuli,
like many others, conducts classes under the
open sky, by Raj Kumar Karki (kp 31/01/2020)
[What are govt and NRA
good for?]
Reconstruction
progress in Sindhuli 55% as time running out,
by Anil Bhandari (rep 22/01/2020)
Many
quake-hit police posts in Makwanpur still
operating from tents: According to the District
Police Office, a total of 17 police post
buildings were damaged by the earthquakes of
2015, by Pratap Bista (kp 10/01/2020)
Reconstruction
authority is building unified settlements in
Makwanpur: Nearly five years since the
earthquakes, about 41 percent of the victims
have rebuilt their houses in Makwanpur, by
Pratap Bista (kp 15/01/2020)
Bhaktapur’s
famed Nyatapola receives post-earthquake
facelift: The reconstruction of the early
18th-century temple marks the continuation of
local participation in rebuilding heritage
monuments, by Shashwat Pant (kp 15/01/2020)
NRA
urged to expedite reconstruction: 62pc houses
reconstructed, 25pc under-construction, 17pc yet
to start (ht 12/01/2020)
When
will the schools be reconstructed? Only 43 of
the 130 schools damaged by the earthquake
reconstructed so far (rep 30/12/2019)
[related to Palpa district]
Catch
the momentum (rep 29/12/2019)
86pc
progress in rebuilding of private houses (ht
27/12/2019)
Quake
victims waiting for housing grant (ht
26/12/2019)
Fate
of 550,000 workers uncertain as NRA nears term
end (rep 26/12/2019)
Only
30 percent work on Gorkha Durbar completed as
deadline ends: The Department of Archaeology is
preparing to extend the contract, by Hariram
Uprety (kp 25/12/2019)
Earthquake
reconstruction: Challenge to save social aura,
by Bishnu Hadkhale (ht 24/12/2019)
Gorkha
Durbar reconstruction slow, by Narahari
Sapkota (rep 12/12/2019)
Reconstruction
of two temples in Basantapur in limbo after UN
cultural agency forced to pull out of project:
As archaeology department and reconstruction
authority appear non-committal, there are also
concerns whether UNESCO withdrew after political
pressure, by Shashwat Pant (kp 08/12/2019),
The
move to push UNESCO to withdraw from the project
to restore temples in Basantapur makes no sense:
Foreign cooperation can be a big help in
heritage restoration (kp 09/12/2019)
Quake
victims unwilling to go for retrofitting (ht
05/12/2019)
State
fails to allocate adequate budget to rebuild
quake-ravaged public schools: The current delay
means students will have to wait a few more
years to shift from makeshift structures, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 03/12/2019)
In
Parbat, sluggish pace of reconstruction work
leaves victims and officials blaming each other:
Only 30 percent of the post-quake reconstruction
is complete in the district, where the 2015
quakes saw over 5,000 houses demolished, by
Agandhar Tiwari (kp 29/11/2019)
Fund
shortage likely to hit post-quake school
reconstruction drive: Rs 30bn needed to
finish rebuilding all damaged schools
within next fiscal (ht 27/11/2019), Delay
in reconstruction of classrooms affecting
children’s education in Sindhuli: NRA officials
claim that they are expediting the
reconstruction process but school officials say
the efforts have been sluggish, by Anil
Bhandari (rep 27/11/2019)
Rasuwa
still awaits construction of integrated
settlements, by Himnath Devkota (rep
24/11/2019)
62pc
of quake-affected private houses rebuilt (ht
23/11/2019)
Quake-displaced
families say they were cheated during land
distribution: The land plots handed over to the
quake survivors in Helambu, Sindhupalchok, fall
in the middle of a busy road, by Anish
Tiwari (kp 20/11/2019)
National
Reconstruction Authority spent just 65 percent
of its budget last fiscal year: Officials blame
the use of existing government mechanisms to
channel the funds for subpar spending, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 13/11/2019) [??]
50pc
of Kasthamandap reconstruction work over (ht
10/11/2019)
Earthquake
Housing Reconstruction Program : Govt grant
expediting private housing reconstruction,
by Muna Sunuwar (rep 04/11/2019)
Reconstruction
of Kumari Ghar in limbo (ht 03/11/2019)
Construction
of integrated settlement for quake-hit people in
Laprak to be completed within two months: The
NRNA had signed an agreement with the NRA to
build 573 houses for the quake displaced
families at Gupsipakha with facilities such as
running water and solar panels for electricity,
by Hariram Uprety (kp 31/10/2019)
Retrofitting
of western facade within a week (ht
21/10/2019) [related to Singha Darbar]
NRA
chief asks housing grant beneficiaries to
collect second tranche by mid-Nov (rep
19/10/2019)
UNESCO
mission expresses concern over heritage
reconstruction (rep 19/10/2019)
Many
families in Kathmandu who lost their homes in
2015 earthquakes are yet to rebuild their homes:
Out of 47,665 families eligible for the
rebuilding aid, only 15,500 families have
received all three tranches of the aid till
date, NRA data show, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
17/10/2019)
Reconstruction
of quake-destroyed govt buildings delayed,
by Narahari Sapkota (rep 15/10/2019)
Around
85 percent earthquake-ravaged houses
reconstructed in Okhaldhunga, by Kumbharaj
Rai (rep 03/10/2019)
Quake
victims unlikely to shift to new houses before
Dashain (ht 19/09/2019)
Gorkha
Durbar reconstruction nowhere near completion:
Just three months till the deadline, only 20
percent of the reconstruction work has been
completed, officials say, by Hariram Uprety
(kp 16/09/2019)
Reconstruction
work of Jaya Bageshwori temple at Siphal halted
(ht 08/09/2019)
NRA
signs MoU to expedite reconstruction (ht
07/09/2019)
Gorkha
quake victims reluctant to retrofit their houses,
by Narhari Sapkota (rep 07/09/2019)
Quake
victims accuse contractor of taking all money,
leaving houses incomplete, by Madhusudan
Guragain (rep 06/09/2019)
NRA
added quota to construct government schools in
Makwanpur: 255 school buildings have been
reconstructed in the district since the 2015
earthquake, by Pratap Bista (kp 04/09/2019)
Master
plan to reconstruct heritage sites in Nuwakot:
The plan includes 428 houses, each of which has
to be rebuilt in traditional design; Bidur
municipal office has directed locals to follow
the guidelines, by Krishna Thapa (kp
04/09/2019)
Conservationists
urge reconstruction authority not to haste the
Rani Pokhari restoration project: The authority
has hired a company to complete the project
within 10 months, by Anup Ojha (kp
31/08/2019)
A
school in Sindhuli still running classes under
makeshift shelters: The 2015 earthquake had
destroyed the school building, which has yet to
be reconstructed, by Sujata Lama (kp
28/08/2019)
What
ails heritage reconstruction? Local authorities
have not really understood true spirit of
heritage reconstruction. Decisions are being
changed quite often, by Keshab Sharma and
Apil KC (rep 21/08/2019)
Reconstruction
work in Sindhuli moves at a snail's pace: Aside
from technical issues, delay in reconstruction
work in the district is a result of a long
bureaucratic process that has barred them from
receiving reconstruction aid, by Raj Kumar
Karki (kp 20/08/2019)
Over
427,000 houses rebuilt (ht 14/08/2019)
Monasteries
in Gorkha await reconstruction and renovation:
Just two monasteries out of 104 have been
reconstructed in the last four years, by
Hariram Uprety (kp 10/08/2019)
Landless
quake survivors in Sindhuli allowed to build
homes on public land they’re using: The list of
victims was prepared after checking their
utility bills, by Sujata Lama (kp
10/08/2019)
Rs
276b spent on post-quake reconstruction, by
Muna Sunuwar (rep 05/08/2019)
Quake
victims unpaid for lack of coordination between
NRA and local units, by Sher Bahadur Jero
(rep 03/08/2019)
Earthquake
victims reluctant to retro-fit houses (ht
31/07/2019)
NRA
releases fund for rebuilding 190 Sindhupalchowk
Gumbas, by Dhruba Dangal (rep 31/07/2019)
14,942
houses yet to be reconstructed in Dolakha
(ht 27/07/2019)
Earthquake
survivors in Siddhalek say housing aid is not
sufficient: Affected families have opted to
retrofit their homes rather than construct new
ones, by Harihar Singh Rathour (kp
24/07/2019)
66
per cent beneficiaries deprived of third tranche
of housing grant (ht 24/07/2019) [related to
Dhankuta]
India
pledged to build around 300 quake-damaged health
posts. Till date, it has not finished even one:
The reconstruction of a majority of the health
facilities under other foreign donors, however,
has either been completed or is nearing
completion, by Arjun Poudel (kp 24/07/2019)
Around
50,000 quake-affected families to be removed
from government list of beneficiaries: They
didn’t sign housing grant agreements within
deadline, rebuilding authority says; Lack
of land titles, disability and old age may
have kept some people from signing agreements,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 23/07/2019)
Ramechhap
quake victims living in damaged houses (ht
21/07/2019)
Number
of fake quake victims rising due to poor record
keeping, by Narahari Sapkota (rep
19/07/2019)
Lack
of land halts reconstruction of around 300
quake-ravaged schools: Officials seek change in
the existing building code for some schools on
case-by-case basis, by Binod Ghimire (kp
17/07/2019)
81
per cent post-earthquake reconstruction over in
Khotang (ht 05/07/2019)
50
per cent quake victims yet to construct houses
in Dhankuta (ht 04/07/2019)
Quake-displaced
people in Tanahun lodge complaints: Authorities
plan to distribute housing aid to affected
households by the fiscal-end, by Samjhana
Rasaili (kp 02/07/2019)
329
earthquake-affected families receive land plots
in Gorkha: 85 percent of private housing
reconstruction works in the district have been
completed so far, according to the National
Reconstruction Authority, by Hariram Uprety
(kp 27/06/2019)
Retrofitting
of quake-ravaged houses starts after four years
in Kavre district (ht 27/06/2019)
54
quake damaged monasteries to be rebuilt in
Solukhumbu (rep 23/06/2019)
Students
in Makwanpur move into newly made school
building: Over 1,000 classrooms of 255 schools
in the district have been built till date,
by Pratap Bista (kp 22/06/2019)
15
families inhabit ‘unsafe’ quarters: Building not
listed with NRA for retrofitting or
reconstruction (ht 22/06/2019)
Reconstruction
snail paced in Besisahar (ht 21/06/2019)
Nearly
300 quake-ravaged schools rebuilt in Gorkha: The
National Reconstruction Authority plans to
complete the construction of all schools in the
district within the next 20 months, by
Hariram Uprety (kp 18/06/2019)
Deadline
extended for resurvey of quake victims (rep
17/06/2019)
Integrated
settlement built in Hyolmo Village: Houses are
built using traditional methods of Hyolmo
culture, by Anish Tiwari (kp 12/06/2019)
Seven
quake-damaged buildings of Jiri Technical School
reconstructed (ht 04/06/2019)
Rs
141b for post-quake reconstruction (rep
30/05/2019)
Raft
foundation for Dharahara being laid (rep
29/05/2019)
Genuine
victims deprived of housing reconstruction grant
after many families use fraudulent documents to
misuse aid: Local officials told the Post that
three or four members of a single family have
received the reconstruction aid, and they
are using the newly built homes as shelter for
their livestock, by Nagendra Adhikari (kp
28/05/2019)
Bouncing
back, by Arun Poudel (rep 24/05/2019)
Cause
of delay: Reconstruction process in Katmandu
Valley has been affected mainly due to urban
poverty. Poverty incidence in Kathmandu has
risen to 11.5 percent, by Chandra Bahadur
Shrestha (rep 16/05/2019)
India’s
support for housing reconstruction tops Rs
2.90bn (ht 15/05/2019)
Fake
quake victims demand aid in Ramechhap, by
Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp 13/05/2019)
Technical
staffers quit job (ht 09/05/2019)
Shortage
of funds affects People’s Housing Programme in
Gandaki Province, by Deepak Pariyar and
Prakash Baral (kp 08/05/2019)
Govt
eases procedures for subsidized housing loans
for quake survivors (rep 08/05/2019)
Quake-ravaged
school buildings yet to be rebuilt in Makwanpur,
by Pratap Bista (kp 08/05/2019)
Quake-displaced
people step forward to complete stalled
construction of their settlement, by Hariram
Uprety (kp 06/05/2019)
PM’s
claim
to complete rebuilding projects in a year far
from reality: Records at National Reconstruction
Authority, which has plans for the next
three years, show a huge funding gap, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 05/05/2019)
The
numbers keep changing: The reconstruction
process is stymied by lack of reliable data on
earthquake survivors, by Prakash Budha Magar
(kp 05/05/2019)
Most
reconstructed houses in Dhading hardly usable,
by Sarita Shrestha (kp 03/05/2019)
Two
major
police units operating from tents for the last
four years: While officials continue to face
difficulties, authorities say there is a
lack of budget to build proper infrastructure,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 02/05/2019), Major
police offices in capital still operating in
tents, by Biken K Dawadi (rep 02/05/2019)
Dolakha
Bazaar is being rebuilt, but it is losing its
heritage, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp
02/05/2019)
Post-quake
recovery
works hit as 4,000 workers resign en masse:
Technicians hired by the National Reconstruction
Authority say they quit as they did not get any
allowance and facilities, by Nayak Paudel
(kp 26/04/2019)
Slow
recovery: Four years since the quake, and people
are still in temporary shelters (kp
26/04/2019)
Four
years
after Nepal’s deadly earthquakes, survivors
continue to live in disarrayMany survivors of
the 2015 earthquakes say financing
reconstruction of their homes and the burden of
loans have become major challenges, pushing them
further into poverty, by Tsering Ngodup Lama
and Arpan Shrestha (kp 25/04/2019), Many
families
in Valley’s core areas are forced to live in
quake-damaged houses: Seventy percent of
quake-hit families have not demolished their
homes for reconstruction, by Arjun Poudel
(kp 25/04/2019), Slow
progress:
NRA has been slow in the post-quake
reconstruction works thanks to its inefficiency,
political interference and shortage of resources
(ht 25/04/2019), Grant
delay disappoints homeless victims, by
Sarita Shrestha (rep 25/04/2019)
Bhaktapur
sets
an example for local-led heritage
reconstruction: The three cities of the Valley
all adopted their own approaches to
reconstruction. While Bhaktapur stayed strictly
local, Kathmandu and Patan welcomed foreign
funds and expertise, irking activists, by
Timothy Aryal (kp 25/04/2019), Four
years on, historical sites still covered in
scaffoldings (rep 25/04/2019)
Building
safe
homes: Local governments should take initiative
for implementing building codes and by-laws.
They should also monitor compliance of those
laws, by Keshab Sharma (rep 25/04/2019)
Post-quake
reconstruction: Sustain the achievements, by
Ayush Banskota and Manish Raj Gouli (ht
24/04/2019)
Quake-hit
school buildings yet to be reconstructed in
Dolakha (ht 24/04/2019)
Rs
429b needed to complete reconstruction, says
authority, by Tika R Pradhan (kp
24/04/2019), NRA
needs Rs 429 bn more to finish reconstruction
works (ht 24/04/2019)
Reconstructed
schools lack toilets (ht 23/04/2019)
Building
back cheaper and stronger: Up-cycling Nepal’s
post-earthquake architecture with a model house,
by Sapana Shakya and Aman Raj Khatakho (nt
19/04/2019), Nepal’s
traditional seismic resistant designs: Reviving
flexible building methods can help reduce damage
in future earthquakes, by Sheilin Teo (nt
19/04/2019), Tall
Order, by Sewa Bhattarai and Prakriti Kandel
(nt 19/04/2019), Quake
was
a learning experience for Nepal’s schools:
Post-disaster rebuilding has upgraded
facilities, and improved the quality of
instruction, by Prakriti Kandel (nt
19/04/2019), Nepal
is being loved to death: Four years after the
earthquake, we Nepalis have got really good at
playing victim, by Anil Chitrakar (nt
19/04/2019)
Integrated
settlement built for indigent Majhi community in
Sindhupalchok, by Anish Tiwari (kp
15/04/2019)
Quake-hit
Majhi village rebuilt without following building
code, by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp 12/04/2019)
Engineers’
strike affect housing programme for quake
victims in Ramechhap, by Tika Prasad Bhatta
(kp 05/04/2019)
Singha
Durbar to be retrofitted (ht 04/04/2019)
Okhaldhunga
plans integrated settlement for quake victims,
by Sher Bahadur Jero (rep 02/04/2019)
Integrated
settlement for quake-displaced Dalits, by
Anish Tiwari (kp 02/04/2019)
PM
announces construction of earthquake museum in
Damak, by Yuvaraj Biwash (rep 01/04/2019)
300
quake-victims under huts in Dolakha, by
Rajendra Manandhar (kp 31/03/2019)
Contractors
make only 12% progress in quake reconstruction
at schools, by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep
28/03/2019)
Quake
victims struggling to repay loans they borrowed
to build damaged houses (kp 14/03/2019) [Hail to the incompetent NRA,
government and adminstration!]
Rs
120m allocated to rebuild sixsettlements (kp
12/03/2019)
NRA
collecting details of fake quake victims (ht
02/03/2019) [This is
only a secondary task of the NRA. What about the
large mass of legitimate victims who have been
waiting for the promised aid for almost 4 years?]
Construction
of integrated settlement for squatters halted
since a year, by Narahari Sapkota (rep
02/03/2019)
Rebuilding
of quake-ravaged Gorkha Durbar at snail’s pace,
by Hariram Uprety (kp 25/02/2019)
Water
crunch hits displaced quake survivors (ht
22/02/2019)
Reconstruction
conundrums: Labelling ‘fake victims’ doesn’t
help, by Bina Limbu, Jeevan Baniya, Manoj
Suji and Sara Shneiderman (kp 19/02/2019)
Housing
grant distribution halted in Dolakha (ht
19/02/2019)
Uncertainty
looms
over Dharahara project: National Reconstruction
Authority in dilemma as the firm deemed fit for
the job is facing corruption case, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 13/02/2019)
Sindhupalchowk
to wrap up reconstruction soon (rep
13/02/2019)
32
return grant money in Kavre district (ht
12/02/2019)
Quake
victims running away from elected reps!, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 12/02/2019)
Monumental
apathy: In the rush to reconstruct, the
government must adhere to protocol (kp
11/02/2019)
Use
of concrete in ancient temple draws ire from
heritage conservationists, by Anup Ojha (kp
08/02/2019)
Deconstructing
reconstruction: Heritage activism foils
disastrous reconstruction in Kathmandu Valley
after the 2015 earthquake, by Alok Siddhi
Tuladhar (nt 08/02/2019), Our
past is our future (nt 08/02/2019), Learning
from
Nepal’s past to rebuild its future: Kathmandu
Valley rebuilt itself after every earthquake,
preserving for posterity its traditional
craftsmanship, by Prakriti Kandel (nt
08/02/2019)
Watchdog
draws
authority’s attention to one-roomed houses:
Transparency International-Nepal alerts the
reconstruction body about the suspected bid of
families to build small houses to claim the
grant, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
05/02/2019)
NRA
gets responsibility to rebuild Rani Pokhari
(ht 05/02/2019)
Reconstruction
in northern Gorkha halted for a week, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 02/02/2019)
NRA
hands over reconstruction responsibility to
local govts (ht 01/02/2019)
1,500
displaced quake victims receive land plots in
safer locations, by Kumbharak Rai (kp
31/01/2019)
Reconstruction
in Barkpak encouraging, by Narahari Sapkota
(rep 29/01/2019)
Four
winters passed under huts, quake survivors say,
by Balaram Ghimire (kp 28/01/2019)
Quake-hit
police posts not reconstructed yet, by
Pratap Bista (kp 27/01/2019)
Think
beyond
grants: A blanket approach of distributing Rs
300,000 each to all earthquake victims can’t be
considered as mission accomplished, by
Prakash Budha Magar (rep 27/01/2019)
Earthquake
victims return housing grant, by Anish
Tiwari (kp 25/01/2019)
NRA
allows participation of locals to rebuild temple
(ht 24/01/2019)
1,534
earthquake survivors get Rs 2.42b in
concessional housing loans (rep 24/01/2019)
Building
of Gorkha model settlement incomplete (kp
22/01/2019)
120
school buildings rebuilt in Lamjung (ht
16/01/2019)
PM
admits NRA won’t complete task in its tenure,
by Rewati Sapkota (ht 15/01/2019)
Resilient
reconstruction: Comply with building codes,
by Ramesh Guragain (ht 15/01/2019)
Failed
scheme: The government should launch an inquiry
as to why the marginalised families abandoned
the houses built for them (ht 14/01/2019)
Post-quake
reconstruction to be completed in 2 years: NRA
chief (rep 11/01/2019)
Snowfall
adds chill to quake survivors’ lives, by
Anish Tiwari (kp 09/01/2019)
NSU
protests delay in Rani Pokhari reconstruction
(ht 09/01/2019)
1,364
get last tranche of housing grant (ht
09/01/2019)
Over
15,000 quake victims in Barpak yet to lay
foundation of their houses, by Narahari
Sapkota (rep 07/01/2019)
NRA
passes guidelines for rebuilding gumbas, by
Sanjaya Lama (kp 05/01/2019)
Slow-paced
Reconstruction Works, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
03/01/2019)
No
grant for 1,000 quake victim families (ht
03/01/2018) [related to Makwanpur district alone]
India,
China yet to rebuild school buildings, by
Rajendra Manandhar (kp 03/01/2019)
Reconstruction
of Kavre schools to be complete by next year
(kp 03/01/2019)
Nuwakot
local
units to facilitate post-earthquake
reconstruction: The authority will identify the
names of the fake beneficiaries and remove them
from the grant list (kp 02/01/2019)
Officials
struggle to identify fake earthquake victims,
by Harihar Singh Rathour (kp 30/12/2018)
248
quake-damaged govt buildings reconstructed
(ht 29/12/2018)
Reconstruction
of quake-hit roads, cultural heritage sluggish
(rep 27/12/2018)
Quake
survivors
live on the edge despite tall claims: According
to the authority, only 2,000 vulnerable
beneficiaries—people above 70 years and single
women above 65—have received Rs50,000 grant,
by Anil Giri (kp 26/12/2018)
10%
quake victims yet to sign housing grant
agreement: NRA (rep 26/12/2018)
77pc
progress in reconstruction of private housing
(ht 26/12/2018)
Quake
victims still awaiting relocation to safer
sites, by Himnath Devkota (rep 25/12/2018)
Many
rebuilt houses in Lamjung fail to meet govt
criteria (ht 25/12/2018)
30,000
quake-hit families in Dolakha still homeless,
by Rajendra Manandhar (kp 20/12/2018)
25,000
quake survivors receive free helpline service
(rep 15/12/2018)
70
percent houses rebuilt in Rasuwa, by Himnath
Devkota (rep 13/12/2018)
Earthquake
victim returns housing grant to NRA after
failing to rebuild on time, by Sikhar Jung
Shrestha (rep 13/12/2018)
Makwanpur
quake victims seek land, by Pratap Bista (kp
09/12/2018)
Business
booms
in Singati despite risk: More people are pouring
in to explore opportunities in this commercial
centre of Gaurishankar, Kalinchok and Bigu rural
municipalities in Dolakha, by Arpan
Shrestha (kp 06/12/2018)
545
victims in Khotang receive third tranche of
housing grant (rep 06/12/2018)
Kalika
becomes first village in Sindhupalchowk to
complete reconstruction, by Dhruba Dangal
(rep 04/12/2018)
Singati
locals rebuilding houses on landslide prone
area, ignoring warning (ht 04/12/2018)
Houses
built for quake victims leaking (ht
04/12/2018)
Reconstruction
process sluggish in Kathmandu Valley, by
Biken K Dawadi (29/11/2018)
Beyond
the mandate (ht 26/11/2018)
40,379
homes built in Gorkha since quake, by
Harihar Uprety (kp 23/11/2018)
42
months after quake, victims still await housing
grant, by Narahari Sapkota (rep 18/11/2018)
Authority
rebuilds 75pc damaged schools (kp
17/11/2018) [related to Sindhupalchok only]
Govt
Rs 150b short for housing grants, by Sagar
Ghimire (rep 17/11/2018)
Local
bodies to develop unified settlements for quake
victims, by Madhusudhan Guragain (rep
16/11/2018)
Quake
victims resettling in vulnerable settlements,
by Dhruba Dangal (rep 15/11/2018)
Reconstruction
technicians irresponsible, say local level
chiefs (ht 15/11/2018)
173
victims receive third instalment of grant
(ht 15/11/2018)
Local
levels told to expedite rebuilding work (ht
14/11/2018)
Reconstruction
for retention: The government must invest in
completely restoring heritage sites, by
Prayash Raj Koirala (kp 12/11/2018)
Subsidised
credit for quake victims: Regulator orders banks
to disburse loans, by Sanjeev Giri (kp
11/11/2018)
Ranipokhari
reconstruction
work to be delayed further: Culture Ministry
informs Archaeology Department to reconsider
temple’s design, by Sanjeev Giri (kp
08/11/2018)
Singha
Durbar
rebuilding to begin from year-end: Consultants
conclude that the structure of the
building is completely safe, which means
it can be brought to use by retrofitting, by
Sanjeev Giri (kp 06/11/2018)
Quake
victims yet to get grants even after building
homes as per rules, by Shuvam Dhungana (rep
04/11/2018)
Construction
of Earthquake Memorial Park yet to pick up the
pace, by Narahari Sapkota (rep 04/11/2018)
3
years after quake, iconic heritage sites still
in shambles, by Biken K Dawadi (rep
31/10/2018)
Authority
rejigs outlay as global donors go cold,
by Sanjeev Giri (kp 30/10/2018)
Works
in
Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur progress
slowly: NRA Chief says, We will soon resolve
issues to ensure reconstruction of private homes
completes on time (kp 28/10/2018)
Earthquake
victims file 650 cases against NRA, by Sher
Bahadur Jero (rep 27/10/2018)
NRA
ends concessional loans to rebuild homes (kp
23/10/2018) [And what
about the victims in the a7 districts that are
so far not under consideration?]
Dharahara
reconstruction to kick off before Tihar (kp
22/10/2018)
Negligence
in reconstruction: Kids studying in 'classroom'
made of tin sheets, by Narahari Sapkota (rep
16/10/2018)
Reconstruction
pace
slow in urban areas: Only around 35% of quake
survivors in Kathmandu Valley have started
rebuilding their houses (rep 16/10/2018)
42,000
quake-damaged houses rebuilt in Dolakha (ht
16/10/2018)
Poor
show:
With more than 50pc of the quake-affected
households yet to receive grant, the NRA has
failed to live up to expectations (ht
15/10/2018) [Still no
support at all for victims in 17 districts who
suffer in the same way as those in the other 14
districts!]
Heritage
sites
work to ‘start soon’: National Reconstruction
Authority Chief Executive Officer Gyewali vows
‘significant progress within a year’ (kp
14/10/2018)
Health
facilities still operating from tents (ht
14/10/2018)
NRA
to finalise cost of remaining reconstruction
works by end of year, by Pushpa Raj Acharya
(rep 14/10/2018)
NRA
warns
legal action against delinquent staff: A number
of engineers hired by the NRA to assess the
reconstruction works have been accused of
abandoning their project sites (kp
10/10/2018)
NRA
to send senior engineers to local levels to ease
reconstruction (rep 10/10/2018)
Quake
survivors demand aid (kp 10/10/2018)
Government
tweaks loan norms, by Sanjeev Giri (kp
09/10/2018)
Rebuilding
body endorses plan for four settlements (kp
08/10/2018)
Authority
grants Rs50k to rebuild homes retaining Bungmati
legacy (kp 07/10/2018)
NRA
to
recover grant from ineligible people: People
with a habitable home apart from the house
impacted by the quake should return the grant
within three months (kp 03/10/2018)
Cultural
town Dolakha bazaar rising from rubble, by
Ramesh Khatiwada (rep 29/09/2018)
53
pc of quake-damaged houses rebuilt (rep
29/09/2018) [Data of
many districts still not included!], Authority
rebuilds 296,514 houses damaged by quake (kp
30/09/2018)
Rani
Pokhari reconstruction: Authority to start
rebuilding work (kp 27/09/2018), Rani
Pokhari blunder Queen’s pond lies in ruins as
a picture of official incompetence (kp
28/09/2018)
Women
masons help build stronger homes in Makwanpur
(kp 27/09/2018)
Quake-affected
to be able to get subsidised credit (ht
27/09/2018)
Nepal
to discuss rebuilding drive at UN (kp
26/09/2018)
Quake
victims in Kavre deprived of aid, by
Nagendra Adhikari (kp 25/09/2018)
NRA
to prioritize housing for the poor: Gyewali,
by Madhusudan Guragain (kp 25/09/2018), Subsidized
housing loan for quake survivors to be scrapped
from mid-October (rep 24/09/2018)
Huge
difference
in budget for construction of similar
classrooms: Classrooms being built using regular
govt grants are not quake-resilient, by
Rudra Pangeni (rep 24/09/2018)
Quake
damaged houses yet to be repaired (ht
24/09/2018) [related to Ramechhap]
Donors’
help sought for rebuilding (kp 22/09/2018)
Rebuilding
body
offers help to Pashupati trust: National
Reconstruction Authority asks the temple
authority to come up with a master plan to
rebuild quake-damaged structures (kp
20/09/2018)
Liping
Bazar still lifeless due to government apathy,
by Dhruba Dangal (rep 20/09/2018)
Nepal
needs Rs 600b to complete reconstruction, says
NRA chief (kp 17/09/2018)
Restored
Manakamana Temple sparkles in gold, by
Hariram Uprety (kp 15/09/2018) [Do the destroyed private
houses of the predominantly poor families
sparkle in the same way??]
Expert
to submit Singha Durbar report next week (kp
15/09/2018)
Quake
victims' fourth monsoon under tent, by
Sarita Shrestha (rep 12/09/2018) [The extremely competent and
active politicians and administrators should be
honoured!!]
Sankhu
monuments await reconstruction (kp
11/09/2018)
6,550
quake victims yet to start building houses in
Sindhupalchowk, by Dhruba Dangal (rep
08/09/2018)
Panel
empowers lawmakers to inspect quake-hit homes,
by Sanjeev Giri (kp 07/09/2018)
Work
on apartment for poorer quake survivors put on
hold since February: Policy to identify
beneficiaries delaying work: NRA, by Rudra
Pangeni (rep 06/09/2018)
JV
of Raman and GIETC bags Dharahara rebuilding
contract, by Sanjeev Giri (kp 03/09/2018)
Reconstruction
of monasteries going nowhere since two years,
by Dhruba Dangal (rep 02/09/2018)
The
cost
of reconstruction: Controversy after controversy
has plagued the Rani Pokhari ever since
reconstruction began over two years ago, by
Anup Ojha (kp 25/08/2018)
Lost
in reconstruction: The earthquake did not just
destroy Barpak, it demolished its architectural
heritage, by Shiva Uprety (nt 24/08/2018), The baker
of Barpak: A village destroyed by the 2015
earthquake celebrates life through good food,
by Tara Aryal Pandey (nt 23/08/2018)
Funds
elude
Ramechhap victims: Geologists had declared the
region as a landslide-risk zone and recommended
the authorities to move the villages to safer
locations, by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp
23/08/2018)
Chepangs
without land deeds denied grants (kp
23/08/2018)
NRA
approves five integrated settlement plans
(kp 23/08/2018)
Reconstruction
fails to gain momentum (ht 21/08/2018)
Gyewali
back as NRA chief, by Sanjeev Giri (kp
16/08/2018) [??
Political nominations go unabated!], Hired,
fired, rehired: Reappointed to the National
Reconstruction Authority, Sushil Gyewali wants
to devolve rebuilding to local governments,
by Om Astha Rai (nt 24/08/2018)
Lack
of
CEO hits reconstruction work: NRA had committed
to building 722,101 houses by the end of next
fiscal but it has built only 50 per cent of
houses so far, by Rewati Sapkota (ht
12/08/2018)
Post-quake
villages resemble cities, by Dhruba Dangal
(rep 11/08/2018)
Additional
time for grant distribution (kp 10/08/2018)
Authority
claims over 37pc private homes reconstructed
(kp 09/08/2018) [In 14
of the affected 31 districts only???]
Desertion
at
earthquake camp: Hundreds of families leave
Gupsipakha earthquake camp and return to Laprak,
their old village that has been declared unsafe
for human habitation by geologists, by
Hariram Uprety (kp 08/08/2018)
Quake
victims urge PM for availing house grant, by
Sarita Shrestha (rep 08/08/2018)
Engineering
Nepal’s
reconstruction: Nepal needs engineers who know
how to communicate, not just with policymakers
and other experts but with villagers, by Tom
Robertson (rep 08/08/2018)
Govt
still undecided on new NRA CEO (rep
06/08/2018) [This
unimportant and inefficient NRA does not need a
CEO?], Appoint
NRA CEO ASAP (rep 08/08/2018)
10
quake victim families provided land in Makwanpur,
by Ashok Sujan Shrestha (rep 06/08/2018)
Quake-displaced
in Kaule refuse to return to native village
(kp 06/08/2018)
Reconstruction
of Durbar High School begins (kp 04/08(2ß18)
449
receive second tranche of housing grant (ht
03/08/2018)
Multiple
land ownership land delays rebuilding (kp
02/08/2018)
976
classrooms await reconstruction in Gorkha,
by Narahari Sapkota (rep 31/07/2018)
Pledge
and
reality: Although there is discrepancy between
pledge and committed amount, World Bank has
reassured NRA to meet the pledge, by
Chandra Bahadur Shrestha (rep 31/07/2018)
India
presents
Rs 2.1 billion housing grant to Nepal: Indian
aid reimburses first tranche of grant given to
42,086 victims in Nuwakot and Gorkha (kp
28/07/2018) [And when
will govt and NRA start to provide aid to the
victims in the 17 so far completely disregarded
districts?]
Quake
displaced
endure 3 years in filmsy shacks: Earthquake
survivors, who are taking refuge in temporary
camps, pin hopes the government will provide
them Rs200,000 to purchase land plots, by
Anish Tiwari (kp 27/07/2018)
Khotang
quake victims receive 2nd tranche of housing
grant (kp 27/07/2018)
Distribution
of quake grant halted in Sindhupalchowk (rep
27/0772018)
Rebuilding
Dharahara: NRA seeks information on 6 Chinese
firms from Chinese Embassy, by Rudra Pangeni
(rep 23/07/2018)
NRA
work stalls without a CEO (kp 22/07/2018) [Given the snail's pace at
which the work of the NRA is proceeding, there
is not much to stall!]
Nepal
seeks India nod to switch $750m credit line
(kp 20/07/2018) [No more
need for reconstruction? The Indian conditions
are as destructive as the Nepalese conditions on
the work of NGOs under the guise of NIP!]
Lack
of work procedure to repair houses puts quake
victims in a fix (ht 19/07/2018)
Around
2,000 fake victims seek earthquake aid, by
Hariram Uprety (kp 17/07/2018) [Related to Gorkha only!
Compared to the more than 60,000 destroyed
houses there, not aven half this number has been
reconstructed!!]
Over
200k households get 3rd tranche of aid (kp
16/07/2018) [Still only
for earthquake victims in 14 of the 31 affected
districts!]
Sindhupalchowk
adds 3,307 quake victims to beneficiary list,
by Dhruva Dangal (rep 15/7/2018)
NRA
almost defunct without CEO (rep 14/07/2018)
Elderly
people from northern Dhading unwilling to
relocate, by Harihar Singh Rathour (kp
13/07/2018)
Building
homes on a deadline: Deadline for earthquake
reconstruction makes survivors erect sheds to
claim payment, by Om Astha Rai (nt
13/07/2018)
Govt
starts Durbar High School demolition, by
Diya Dhakal (rep 13/97/2018)
20
percent reconstruction works completed in
Sindhuli, by Anil Bhandari (rep 11/07/2018)
Monsoon
starts stealing sleep of flood victims, by
Arjun Oli (rep 10/07/2018)
Lamjung
quake victims still awaiting government grant
(ht 09/07/2018)
Bhusal
thanks govt as NRA looks to fifth CEO in 3 years,
by Sanjeev Giri (kp 06/07/2018)
Reconstruction
of Durbar High School begins (ht 03/07/2018)
Quake
victims forced to build two houses, by Daman
Rai (rep 02/07/2018)
Authority
endorses 6,282 beneficiaries (kp 30/06/2018)
NRA:
70 pc quake victims start rebuilding houses
(rep 29/06/2018) [And
what about the most affected people in the other
districts? They fas the same hardships and have
the same rights!], 69.47
per cent beneficiaries of housing grant
rebuilding houses (ht 29/06/2018)
Quake
victims in Valley deprived of housing grant due
to land disputes (kp 25/06/2018)
Over
20,000 quake victims might have to spend fourth
monsoon under tents, by Dhruba Dangal (rep
22/06/2018)
Lack
of land stalls school rebuilding in hills
(kp 20/06/2018)
29,493
families to get retrofitting grant (kp
20/06/2018) [Still
only related to 14 of the 31 affected
diistricts!]
6,736
families ‘ineligible’ for house rebuilding grant
(kp 18/06/2018)
The
tangled web of debt, by Priyanka Gurung (rep
15/06/2018)
Elderly
and women left for reconstruction after youths
rush to pick Yarsagumba, by Narahari Sapkota
(rep 12/06/2018)
Over
400,000 families receive second tranche (kp
08/06/2018) [Still only
related to 14 of the 31 affected diistricts!]
Khatiwada
urges transparency in using grants to rebuild
houses (kp 06/05/2018) [?? Which grants? Most of the affected
families in the 31 districts have not got
anything even after more than 3 years!],
7,000
families
in Makwanpur yet to receive housing aid:
Officials say the problem emerged because these
families do not have land ownership documents,
by Pratap Bista (kp 07/06/2018)
NRA
amending directive to quicken grant distribution
(rep 04/06/2018), Authority
expands housing aid lists (kp 05/06/2018)
NRA
starts retrofitting Singha Durbar (kp
03/06/2018)
Locals
of Gorkha head to pick yarsa to clear
reconstruction loans, by Narahari Sapkota
(reop 03/06/2018)
Some
quake victims in Daman receive second tranche of
grant, by Daman Rai (rep 03/06/2018)
Yarsha
village finally rises from rubbles, by
Ramesh Khatiwada (rep 03/06/2018)
NRA
budget up 3.35pc to Rs151.08b (kp
30/05/2018)
Gorkha
contractors delay projects completion and seek
deadline extension, by Narhari Sapkota (rep
28/05/2018)
NRA
adds over 5,000 beneficiaries to aid list
(kp 27/05/2018)
Fear
of losing grant forces quake victims to build
houses in a rush (rep 27/05/2018)
Lack
of fund hits rebuilding of university properties
(kp 27/05/2018)
Intense
lobbying going on to replace NRA CEO (rep
27/05/2018)
Pokharel
vows to rebuild all schools in two years (kp
22/05/2018) [??]
Quake
victims in Khotang yet to get second tranche of
housing grant (ht 22/05/2018)
Quake
victims toil 7hrs uphill with construction
materials, by Sarita Shrestha (rep
22/05/2018)
NRA
revises down cost of reconstruction (ht
21/05/2018) [If you wait
for some more decades, it will not cost
anything! Affected families in 17 districts have
not got anything so far. Reconstructiion costs
are rising day by day!]
Top
officials' transfer could delay reconstruction:
NRA chief (rep 20/05/2018) [?? The delay is already
unimmaginable!!]
Shortage
of materials, manpower affects heritage
reconstruction, by Biken K. Dawadi (rep
16/05/2018)
US
and NRA to rebuild schools: Envoy Teplitz and
NRA chief Bhusal open Kanya Mandir
reconstruction (kp 13/05/2018)
NRA
seeks renegotiation of Indian credit, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 11/05/2018)
Reconstruction
on risky lands, by Dhruba Dangal (rep
07/05/2018)
Rebuilding
of Dharahara to begin this fiscal: NRA (kp
06/05/2018)
Reconstruction
work at snail’s pace in Bhojpur district (ht
04/05/2018)
NRA
relocates
46 quake-hit families: NRA has so far resettled
66 of the 324 families living in landslide-prone
areas in Nuwakot district (kp 01/05/2018)
Quake
victims pressing for building integrated
settlement, by Dhurba Dangal (ht 01/05/2018)
NRA
completes survey of 996,582 private homes for
grant disbursement (kp 30/04/2018), 7.5
percent Province 3 quake victims yet to sign
contract for housing grant, by Ashok Sujan
Shrestha (rep 30/04/2018)
Reconstruction
almost completed in Rampur (ht 29/04/2018)
Norway,
Germany hand over school (kp 28/04/2018)
Debt
and
Deadlines: While there has been important
progress in housing reconstruction,
especially over the last year, the question is:
At what price?, by Peter Gill (kp
28/04/2018)
Nepal’s
female
masons dig deep to lay foundations for change
and renewal: When a lack of trained builders
hampered reconstruction in earthquake-hit Nepal,
women stepped up to the plate—yet their
resourcefulness has perturbed some
traditionalists, by Pete Pattisson (kp
28/04/2018)
Not
even a single house rebuilt in three years,
by Mukti Prasad Nyaupane (rep 28/04/2018) [related
to Palpa]
Victims
suffer
as rebuilding work drags: Two former NRA chiefs
slam slow progress; Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli
urges international donors to fulfill their
pledges, by Sanjeev Giri (kp 26/04/2018), Reconstucted
houses in Dolakha ‘unfit to live’, by
Rajendra Manandhar (kp 26/04/2018), Displaced
families still live in temporary huts, by
Madhav Aryal (kp 26/04/2018), One-third
of classrooms rebuilt in three years (kp
26/04/2018), Only
30 households in Chitwan receive third tranche
of quake grant, by Sabita Shrestha (rep
27/04/2018)
NRA:
Private
houses to be built within next fiscal: Poor
track record makes claim hard to believe;
According to the NRA, reconstruction of
100 heritage sites has been over while
work is yet to begin at 324 sites (kp
25/04/2018), Quake
survivors still in unsafe homes, by Tika
Prasad Bhatta (kp 25/04/2018), Costs
of reconstruction: Resources must be
expeditiously mobilised to carry reconstruction
work to completion (kp 25/04/2018), sefulness
outlived?
Three years after the devastating quake,
questions are now being asked whether the NRA
has become a white elephant and outlived its
utility (ht 25/04/2018), Three
years on, post-quake recovery limping, by
Sujan Dhungana (ht 25/04/2018), Three
years on, quake-displaced living on horns of
dilemma, by Rewati Sapkota (ht
25/04/2018), Quake
epicenter Barpak on slow road to recovery,
by Narhari Sapkota (rep 25/04/2018), Plight
of many quake victims still unchanged (rep
25/04/2018), 85pc
heritage monuments yet to be rebuilt (ht
25/04/2018), Usefulness
outlived?
Three years after the devastating quake,
questions are now being asked whether the NRA
has become a white elephant and outlived its
utility (ht 25/04/2018), Rebuilding
right way: Involving women in a meaningful way
is the need of the time to complete the
reconstruction process, by Prerana Marasini
(rep 25/04/2018)
Bojhini
locals set example of integrated settlement,
by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 25/04/2018)
Quake
recovery hits new hurdle: Survivors building
1-room homes (kp 24/04/2018)
NRA
seeks NGOs' support to rebuild (ht
24/04/2018)
Billions
to rebuild Nepal being misdirected (ht
24/04/2018)
2015
earthquake victims making bricks to reconstruct
their houses (ht 24/04/2018)
Sluggish
rebuilding hits thousands of students: Govt yet
to raise half the funds necessary to rebuild
over 5,500 schools, by Binod Ghimire (kp
23/04/2018), Quake
victims complain reconstruction too slow, by
Narhari Sapkota (rep 23/04/2018)
Construction
of quake victims' houses limited to foundations
(rep 21/04/2018)
How
to build back better?, by Suyog Prajapati
(nt 20/04/2018)
Reconstruction
and resilience, by Jun Sakuma (nt
20/04/2018)
1/3
empty or 2/3 full? Even in developed countries,
recovery and reconstruction takes much more than
three years to complete, by Nigel Fisher (nt
20/04/2018)
Reconstruction
work snail-paced in Kavre, Makawanpur (ht
18/04/2018)
Donors
pledging huge reconstruction funds skip NRA meet,
by Sangeet Sangroula (rep 17/04/2018), Donors
‘reluctant’ to submit details to NRA (rep
18/04/2018), NRA
seeks transparent funding from donors (kp
18/04/2018), NRA
for more transparency in donor-aided projects,
by Sangeet Sangroula (rep 19/04/2018)
39.05%
more housing grant beneficiaries than 2011
census data, by Bishnu Tamang (rep
16/04/2018)
Rebuilding
in Makwanpur unlikely to be completed even in
next 5 yrs, by Pratap Bista (kp 12/04/2018)
'NRA
labels severely damaged houses as partially
damaged', by Daman Rai (rep 12/04/2018)
NRA
planning
to revise govt-WB agreement: Move aimed at
easing the process of extending reconstruction
grants to earthquake survivors, by Rewati
Sapkota (ht 12/04/2018)
India-funded
post-quake housing reconstruction project starts
(kp 12/04/2018)
Central
project units now under NRA, by Sanjeev Giri
(kp 10/03/2018)
NRA
under pressure over restoring Singha Durbar
(rep 10/04/2018)
Delays
in rebuilding school, health facilities (kp
09/02/2018)
NRA
spends Rs 102 billion in FaLgun (kp
07/04/2018)
NRA
extends 2nd grant date to mid july (kp
04/04/2018)
Government
ready to revise policies to ensure grant for
earthquake survivors (ht 04/04/2018)
Quake-damaged
buildings in Bhaktapur yet to be reconstructed
(ht 03/04/2018)
More
than 3,000 still living in vulnerable zone
(kp 02/04/2018), Quake-ravaged
school buildings yet to be reconstructed (kp
02/04/2018)
Quake-hit
families who rebuilt houses on their own to get
grant, by Rewati Sapkota (ht 02/04/2018)
FM
says post-quake reconstruction sluggish (rep
31/03/2018), Three
years on, cash crunch hinders post-quake
reconstruction, by Sanjeev Giri and Chandan
K. Mandal (kp 01/04/2018), 3
years on, home rebuilding by quake victims still
uncertain, by Bhadra Sharma (rep 01/04/2018)
NRA
plea to ease loan process (kp 28/03/2018)
Govt
plans to retrofit houses in one year, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 27/03/2018), Retrofitting
training for 12,000 masons, 2,000 engineers in
April (rep 28/03/2018), Quake-proof:
NRA has to follow through with retrofitting
efforts; rhetoric alone will not suffice (kp
28/03/2018)
Malla-era
town at risk following big earthquake (rep
27/03/2018)
NRA
mulls setting up its own units in quake-hit
districts (rep 26/03/2018)
Quake-damaged
schools in Gorkha yet to be rebuilt: SEE exams
being conducted under makeshift tents, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 23/03/2018)
NRA
releases nearly Rs10b for private houses (kp
23/03/2018), NRA
authorises CLPIU to spend Rs 9.95 billion
(ht 23/03/2018), NRA
delegates
spending authority to ministry: Now Ministry of
Local Development will distribute housing grant
tranches to victims (rep 23/03/2018)
Water
shortage halts reconstruction in Sindhuli,
by Anil Bhandari (rep 22/03/2018)
Over
300,000 families qualified for 2nd tranche
(kp 20/03/2018)
NRA
asks stakeholders to pick up rebuilding pace in
Valley (kp 20/03/2018)
Over
150,000 workers mobilized for reconstruction,
by Dhruba Dangal (rep 20/03/2018)
Khotang
quake victims to get remaining govt grant soon
(ht 17/03/2018)
Sindhupalchowk's
Majhi people help each other to rebuild homes,
by Dhurba Dangal (rep 17/03/2018)
Locals
appreciating retrofitting of their mud houses,
by Dhruba Dangal (rep 15/03/2018)
69
families agree on house pooling proposal, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 15/03/2018)
Fewer
women in quake rebuilding work says survey
(kp 10/03/2018)
Quake
victims not building homes despite getting
grants, by Sarita Shrestha (rep 08/03/2018)
Step
on it: Political meddling, the cumbersome
bureaucratic hierarchy and processes within the
NRA have delayed reconstruction, by Manavi
Paudel (kp 06/03/2018)
Post-quake
reconstruction woefully slow in Ramechhap,
by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp 06/03/2018)
Case
filed over ‘violation’ of rebuilding standards
(kp 06/03/2018)
NRA
drops plan to convert ancient palaces into
hotels (kp 06/03/2018)
Quake
victims hassled getting housing grant (ht
04/03/2018)
Quake
victim families purchase land: Twenty-four
households received Rs 200,000 each (ht
03/03/2018)
Curious
case of missing cabinet decision: Quake grant
hike not in list of outgoing Deuba govt's
cabinet decisions (rep 01/03/2018)
Quake
victims still deprived of grant (ht
01/03/2018)
Houses
not meeting NRA housing design criteria
retrofitted (ht 01/03/2018)
Quake
victims get into debt constructing their homes,
by Sarita Shrestha (rep 28/02/2018), Quake
victims assisting each other in reconstruction,
by Bhagwati Lama (rep 28/02/2018)
100k
houses rebuilt in 26 months: NRA (kp
27/02/2018), More
engineers armed with tablet computers (kp
27/02/2018)
Reconstruction
messed up in Dhading, by Shankar Shrestha
and Sarita Shrestha (rep 25/02/2018)
78
quake-displaced families forced to live in
community forest, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp
24/02/2018)
NRA
launches
website to share info on rebuilding: The system
will aid in project monitoring and keep
track of work progress (kp 22/02/2018) [see
corresponding website]
Quake
victims deprived of grant (ht 20/02/2018)
Experts
know best: Building plans account for seismic
resilience, but lack of experts overseeing
construction undermines efforts, by Cara
Buchan (kp 19/02/2018)
Plan
to build houses cost free for quake victims:
Nepal Reconstruction Authority move to benefit
four categories, by Anup Ojha (kp
18/02/2018)
Quake
victims deprived of state grants (ht
16/02/2018)
Government
extends
deadline for second tranche of grant: National
Reconstruction Authority says extension will
benefit more families, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 10/02/2018) [Still
only related to 14 of the 31 affected districts],
3,451
households yet to get second tranche of housing
grant (ht 10/02/2018)
All
houses look similar in Sindhuli after
reconstruction, by Anil Bhandari (rep
10/02/2018)
Relearning
to build back better: Earthquakes provide Nepal
with a regular opportunity to revive traditional
art, by Anil Chitrakar (nt 09/02/2018)
Plan
to
develop multi-ownership housing: NRA; Several
members of the family will jointly own the house
under the new model of housing (kp
09/02/2018)
Quake-affected
families yet to rebuild homes (kp
06/02/2018)
Elusive
government grants: Earthquake survivors face
endless hassles and paperwork as they
rebuild their homes, by Jagat Basnet (kp
06/02/2018)
Guchhiwang
quake victims reluctant to return and rebuild
destroyed homes, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel (rep
01/02/2018)
Donors
did not agree to our new proposal to simplify
grants distribution process, interview with
Yubaraj Bhusal, CEO of NRA (rep)
Only
57 quake-damaged houses in KMC rebuilt so far:
1,470 constructed out of 43,609 damaged houses
in Kathmandu district, by Sangeet Sangroula
(rep 31/01/2018)
Reconstruction
work gathers pace in Sindhupalchowk, by
Dhurba Dangal (rep 31/01/2018)
Interest-free
loan scheme for quake victims yet to begin
(rep 29/01/2018)
Snow
adds to quake victims’ woes (ht 26/01/2018)
Earthquake
victims to get additional grant of one lakh
rupees (ht 25/01/2018) [??], Govt
ups home reconstruction grant to Rs 400,000
(rep 25/01/2018) [A
decision by a no longer legitimate government
that is not even able to provide the first
(50.000Rs) and second (150.000Rs) tranches to
all affected people!!!], Quake
victims welcome reconstruction grant hike,
by Sarita Shrestha (rep 26/01/2018), NRA
unable to provide additional Rs 100,000 to quake
victims, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 28/01/2018)
Ramechhap
quake victims to get timber for house
reconstruction (ht 24/01/2018)
Quake
victims could miss second tranche of grant due
to PM's busy schedule (rep 24/01/2018)
Hike
in the prices of construction materials halts
reconstruction again, by Anil Bhandari (rep
22/01/2018)
Quake
victims who built homes themselves deprived of
grant, by Bhagawati Lama (rep 20/01/2018)
Poor
show: NRA presented rosy picture of
reconstruction on its second anniversary but the
truth is it has failed to deliver, by David
Kainee (rep 18/01/2018)
Untrained
masons rebuilding quake-damaged houses (ht
18/01/2018)
Schools
displaced by quake-induced landslide yet to
resume, by Himnath Devkota (rep 18/01/2018)
Patients
being treated in tents in Dhading (ht
18/01/2018)
Second
grant tranche: 385,657 beneficiaries miss
deadline, by Rewati Sapkota (ht 16/01/2018)
[We are still talking
about only 14 of 31 affected districts!!],
Over
80 percent quake victims miss deadline for
second tranche of housing grant (rep
16/01/2018), Quake
victims slam delays in receiving housing grants,
by Narahari Sapkota (ht 16/01/2018), 50,000
quake-hit families yet to start rebuilding in
Kavre; Only 14,223 houses built in Dhading,
by Nagendra Adhikari (kp 17/01/2018), No
second
tranche of housing grant for earthquake victims:
National Reconstruction Authority to build
houses for helpless and elderly persons in Kavre
(ht 17/01/2018), Tardy
pace: The pace of rebuilding individual houses
is so slow that NRA, it seems, will never be
able to accomplish its mission (ht
17/01/2018), 45
pc Rasuwa quake victims set to get second
tranche grant, by Himnath Devkota (rep
17/01/2018)
Okhaldhunga
quake victims deprived of housing grant (ht
15/01/2018)
NRA
to allow quake victims to choose land for
rebuilding houses, by Rupesh Acharya (ht
14/01/2018)
Betrayed
by delay: Many houses would have been rebuilt by
now if the government had not promised
reconstruction grants, by Ravi Lochan
Paudyal (rep 14/01/2018)
NRA
to up reconstruction aid for families with no
breadwinner (rep 14/01/2018)
Quake
victims get first tranche of housing grant
(ht 14/01/2018) [related to Lamjung]
NRA
starts shifting risky settlement from
Sindhupalchok (kp 12/01/2018)
Families
in risky settlements seek collective relocation
(rep 11/01/2018)
Quake
survivors hit by shortage of construction goods
in Gorkha, by Sudip Kaini (kp 10/01/2018)
Quake
victims’ children suffer from pneumonia (ht
09/01/2018)
‘Quake
survivors can get free house design approval’
(kp 08/01/2018)
Reconstruction
on cracked land, by Rewati Sapkota (ht
07/01/2017)
Labor
crunch affects reconstruction, by Bhagawati
Lama (rep 06/01/2018)
Quake
victims await grant in chilly winte, by
Sarita Shrestha (rep 05/01/2018)
Building
materials shortage add to woes of Sindhuli quake
victims (kp 04/01/2018)
Classes
at quake-damaged schools still under tents,
by Narahari Sapkota (rep 03/01/2018)
Female
masons making their marks in reconstruction,
by Sarita Shrestha (rep 02/01/2018)
Lack
of coordination affects reconstruction work
(ht 01/01/2018)
Reconstruction
finally picks up pace after 32 months of
earthquake, by Anil Bhandari (rep
30/12/2017) [related to Sindhuli]
Reconstruction
matters: NRA’s claim that reconstruction will
be completed in the next six-months is
dubious (kp 29/12/2017), Too
slow a pace: Some of the beneficiaries whose
houses were damaged in the quake have been
deprived of government aid (ht 29/12/2017)
NRA
officials pledge to expedite reconstruction
(ht 28/12/2017) [??],
Reconstruction
work slow in Dhading (ht 28/12/2017)
Quake
survivors battling with extreme cold, by
Kishan Sangeet Nepali (rep 26/12/2017), Quake
victims lack resources to rebuild (ht
27/12/2017), Post-quake
reconstruction: Only 11 pc private homes built
so far, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
28/12/2017)
15,000
families yet to get 2nd tranche of housing grant
(ht 25/12/2017) [related to Makwanpur district
only]
Reconstruction
moving at a snail’s pace in Bhaktapur (ht
23/12/2017), No
end in sight to quake victims’ plight (ht
23/12/2017), Over
3,500 families receive housing grant (ht
23/12/2017)
Quake
victims to spend third winter in tents, by
Madhusudan Guragain (rep 20/12/2017) [This is a grave crime
committed by politicians, NRA and other
administrators!!], In
despair, quake victims living on flood-prone
riverbank, by Shiva Hari Ghimire (rep
21/12/2017), NRA
targets to complete construcion of 450,000
houses by this fiscal (rep 21/12/2017) [??]
Only
5,565 quake-damaged houses rebuilt in Gorkha,
by Narahari Sapkota (rep 19/12/2017)
WB
provides $300m for housing rebuild (kp
18/12/2017)
Cement
use in Jaya Bageshwori restoration draws
criticism, by Anup Ojha and Sanjit Bhakta
Pradhananga (kp 12/12/2017)
Earthquake
disaster: Reconstruction and recovery, by
Bidyaman Mahatara (ht 12/12/2017)
Pilachhen’s
resolve to create model from rubble: Two and a
half years after the 2015 earthquake, the
ancient settlement of Pilachhen in Patan is
transforming pain into hope and emerging as a
model project for reconstruction and cultural
promotion, by Prawash Gautam (kp 09/12/2017)
Shortage
of timber hits reconstruction of monuments,
by Ayam Shrestha (rep 06/12/2017)
NRA
gearing up to rebuild Dharahara on its own
(ht 02/12/2017)
Resettlement
process under way, says NRA (kp 26/11/2017)
Reconstruction
work snail-paced (ht 26/11/2017)
NRA
move to involve local reps backfires: Leaders
demanding more role, populist programmes, by
Sanjeev Giri (kp 24/11/2017) [??]
Real
reconstruction authorities, by Yubaraj
Bhusal (nt 24/11/2017)
126,326
households added to NRA list of beneficiaries
(kp 23/11/2017) [Still
only related to 14 of the 31 affected districts;
people in other districts obviously don't need
any help!]
NRA
to train 54,000 masons by mid-Jan ’18 (kp
19/11/2017)
Quake
survivors have until mid-Dec to file plaints:
NRA (kp 17/11/2017)
NRA
asks local units to address survivors’ plaints
(kp 14/11/2017)
NRA
issues 28-point declaration (kp 05/11/2017)
[Still only related to
14 of the 31 affected districts; people in other
districts obviously don't need any help!]
‘Change
in leadership won’t impact rebuilding’ (kp
30/10/2017) [But it must have impact! It cannot fo
on at snail's pace as it did before!!], NRA
chief executive Bhushal meets development
partners (ht 30/10/2017)
Reconstruction
reassessment halted (ht 27/10/2017)
NRA
could organise another donor meet if needed:
Bhusal (ht 26/10/2017) [Not the donors have been the problem but
govt and NRA!!!]
Substantial
results in 3 months: Bhusal (kp 25/10/2017)
[Please take time! Your
predecessors have done the same. Earthquake
victims do not need reconstruction of their
houses this winter as well!], New
NRA CEO Bhusal assumes office (ht
25/10/2017), ‘All
displaced families will have new homes before
monsoon’ (kp 26/10/2017) [??]
Quake
victims struggle to receive grants, by
Madhusudan Guragain (rep 24/10/2017)
2,456
educational institutions reconstructed so far
(ht 23/10/2017)
Reconstruction
grant distribution procedure: Quake-hit can
rebuild in adjoining district (kp
17/10/2017)
Over
200k houses rebuilt or under construction: NRA
(kp 17/10/2017), Houses
under construction and rebuilt crosses 200,000:
NRA (ht 17/10/2017), 58,656
houses built for quake survivors (ht
18/10/2017)
Quake-ravaged
schools finally getting rebuilt, by Pratap
Bista (kp 16/10/2017) [related to Makwanpur]
Dolakha
quake victims deprived of housing grant (ht
16/10/2017)
Government
signs agreements worth $3.07 billion for
reconstruction (ht 13/10/2017)
NRA
directs BFIs to ease loan process (kp
12/10/2017)
Displaced
to get intrest-free loan (kp 10/10/2017), Up
to Rs 300,000 interest-free loan to earthquake
beneficiaries (ht 10/10/2017) [Do stop talking and finally
act!!]
Quake
victims walk four days to receive grant (ht
10/10/2017) [meaning 20
pc of the meagre grant after two and a half
years have to be spent for the travel!]
Earthquake
victims’ absence hits re-survey work in Dolakha
(ht 10/10/2017)
Quake
victims feel cheated with Earth Bag homes,
by Madhusudhan Guragain (rep 10/10/2017)
Quake
survivors in Dolakha struggle to repay loans,
by Rajendra Manandhar (kp 06/10/2017) [!!]
Housing
loan scheme for quake-hit households fails to
take off, by Bishnu Tamang (rep 06/10/2017)
Reconstruction
gathers momentum in Gorkha, by Sudip Kaini
(kp 03/10/2017)
Out
in the cold: Govt has to step up reconstruction
efforts in coordination with local bodies and
survivors (kp 03/10/2017), Only
6.6pc of quake-damaged houses rebuilt till date
(ht 03/10/2017)
NRA
urges quake survivors to collect 2nd batch of
aid on time (kp 21/09/2017), 29
months on, many quake victims yet to get first
installment of grant, by Kisaa Sangit Nepali
(rep 21/09/2017)
NRA
resurvey falls behind schedule (kp
20/09/2017)
Singha
durbar restoration: NRA invites EoI for
structural assessment, retrofitting (kp
17/09/2017)
Friends
in deed: Women in men-less Nepali village didn't
wait for government to rebuild flood-hit homes,
by Namrata Sharma (nt 15/09/2017)
Lack
of raw materials affects reconstruction in
Gorkha, by Narahari Sapkota (rep 12/09/2017)
Reconstruction
cost to stand at Rs 700bn (ht 11/09/2017)
NRA
seeks reconstruction plan, progress from NT, KMC
(ht 09/09/2017)
Snail-paced
Reconstruction Work, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
07/09/2017)
NRA
floats proposal to convert ancient palaces into
hotels, by Sanjeev Giri (kp 05/09/2017), NRA
plans to turn palaces into hotels, by Roshan
S. Nepal (ht 15/09/2017)
NRA
to hire consultant: Move to ease accessing of
rebuilding grant from India (kp 01/09/2017)
Documentation
error depriving quake victims of grants, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 29/08/2017)
NRA
readies list of quake-hit settlements for
relocation (kp 28/08/2017)
Kavre
quake victims receive housing grant (ht
27/08/2017)
27
months on, doctors still treating quake-hit
patients under tents, by Him Nath Devkota
(rep 27/08/2017) [correctly: 28 months!]
NRA
paves way to develop integrated settlements
(ht 22/08/2017), NRA
nod to 3 integrated settlement projects (kp
24/08/2017)
NRA
starts resurvey of quake-hit private houses
(kp 20/08/2017)
Housing
grant withdrawal problems in Khotang (ht
18/08/2017)
Reconstruction
fiasco: Quake survivors are living wretched
lives as the government can’t get its act
together, by Umesh Pokharel (kp 16/08/2017)
NRA
deploys 99 engineers to five districts (ht
13/08/2017)
Rebuilding
a dream: Progress for many who lost homes in the
earthquake is painfully slow, still slower for
others, by Marty Logan (rep 11/08/2017)
Tired
of waiting: Quake reconstruction work should be
delegated to the local level for faster results,
by Jeevan Baniya (kp 09/08/2017)
Central
level project implementation units: NRA plan
falls through as line ministries baulk, by
Sanjeev Giri (kp 08/08/2017)
Beyond
rebuilding: The NRA’s focus is continuous
strengthening of institutional capacity of
post-quake executing and implementing agencies,
by Govind Raj Pokharel, CEO of NRA (rep
08/08/2017)
NRA
initiates process for resurvey (kp
07/08/2017)
Kasthamandap
rebuild campaign: Disappointed with NRA decision
(kp 04/08/2017), KMC’s
meddling in rebuild plan flayed (kp
08/08/2017)
NRA
issues Rs 53bn pvthousing grant (ht
03/08/2017)
Reconstruction
by I/NGOs sluggish, by Narahari Sapkota and
Devendra Basnet (rep 01/08/2017) [Such statements should not
be generalised! In heavly affected districts
where government support has not even started
after almost two and a half years, there are
villages where the reconstruction of houses is
almost completed with the help of NGOs and
foreign friends!!!]
Lawmakers
demand immediate distribution of grant to quake
survivors (rep 31/07/2017)
Monastery
reconstruction: Monks take to streets to protest
against delay, by Anup Ojha (kp 26/07/2017)
Integrated
settlements: NRA assures project will start
before Dashain (kp 26/07/2017)
Retrofitting
grant for quake survivors ‘soon’ (kp
24/07/2017)
‘150k
families moving in to new homes by Sept’ (kp
23/07/2017) [??],
Quake
survivors denied second tranche of housing aid,
by Rajendra Manandhar (kp 23/07/2017), Earthquake
victims awaiting housing grant (ht
23/07/2017)
Rebuilding
of Sindhu schools delayed, by Anish Tiwari
(kp 23/07/2017)
Labour
shortage hits reconstruction works (kp
21/07/2017)
Rebuilding
for all, by Govind Pokharel (nt 21/07/2017)
Building
back alone: An earthquake survivor rebuilt his
house and his family’s livelihood all by himself,
by Shreejana Shrestha (nt 21/07/2017)
NRA’s
bid to bring CLPIUs under its ambit rejected
(ht 20/07/2017)
House
Panel to govt: Complete rebuilding drive within
this fiscal (kp 19/07/2017), NRA
chief refutes slow progress claims (kp
19/07/2017)
NRA
estimates Rs 394.55bn funding gap in
reconstruction, by Sabin Mishra (ht
19/07/2017)
Funds
crunch set to affect school reconstruction
(rep 19/07/2017)
NRA
sets
mid-July 2018 deadline for beneficiaries (kp
18/07/2017) [?? So far,
you have not abserved your own deadlines in any
way!!], Collect
entire
housing grant within this fiscal: NRA (ht
18/07/2017), Only
500 households eligible for third installment,
by Narahari Sapkota (rep 18/07/2017)
Not
a
single college, univ property rebuilt in 2 yrs:
The main administrative building of the TU
having offices of vice-chancellor, rector and
the registrar, was totally destroyed (kp
18/07/2017)
Jure
landslide
victims to get aid on par with quake survivors,
by Anish Tiwari (kp 16/07/2017)
Quake
reconstructions stall as victims await 2nd
tranche, by Shankar Adhikari (rep
16/07/2017)
Dolakha
quake
victims await housing grant (ht 16/07/2017)
NRA
seeks
assistance for mason training (ht
15/07/2017)
Engineers
extorting commission from quake victims in
Dhading, by Shankar Shrestha (rep
15/07/2017)
3-tier
body
formed to address plaints (kp 14/07/2017)
Quake
victims
get third tranche of housing grant (ht
14/07/2017)
Monsoon
drenching quake victims once again, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 13/07/2017)
NRA
gets
Rs 145.93b for ’17-18 (kp 13/07/2017)
Explain
delay:
The National Reconstruction Authority cannot
remain aloof by simply stating that a contract
has been signed with the NRNA for building the
houses at Laprak (ht 13/07/2017)
Monastery
rebuilding
delay angers monks: Monks from 14-quake affected
districts have formed a struggle committee to
press their demand to the government, by
Anup Ojha (kp 13/07/2017)
Central
level
project implementation units: Cabinet indecision
puts NRA’s plan in limbo (kp 12/07/2017)
Model
settlement
in Laprak to be delayed (ht 12/07/2017)
NRA
proposes
additional grant for traditional settlements
(ht 11/07/2017)
NRA
addresses
quake victims’ complaints (ht 10/07/2017), NRA
says
31,979 pending grievances addressed (kp
11/07/2017)
No
roof
over their heads, by Anish Tiwari (kp
07/07/2017), Post-quake
reconstruction
fails to pick up pace, by Sanjeev Giri (kp
07/07/2017) [This
is a great failure by the state to render
assistance even though funds are there!!],
Quake
victims spending third monsoon in tents, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 07/07/2017), Quake
victims forced to live in landslide-prone areas,
by Narahari Sapkota (rep 09/07/2017)
Quake
victims
deprived of housing grant (ht 06/07/2017)
NRA
to
build integrated settlement in Selang (kp
02/07/2017)
NRA
mulls
additional aid of Rs 200,000 to quake survivors
(ht 01/07/2017)
Delays
in
house reconstruction: NRA blames worker shortage
(kp 30/06/2017)
‘Bring
all
CLPIUs under NRA ambit’ (ht 30/06/2017)
Dismal
NRA
performance hits govt fiscal spending target
(ht 29/06/2017)
NRA
set
to mobilise local reps in 2 weeks, by
Sanjeev Giri (kp 27/06/2017)
NRA:
Pacts
worth over $3b signed with donors, by
Sanjeev Giri (kp 26/06/2017)
NRA
formulates
plaint registration procedure (kp
24/06/2017)
Dilapidated
Singha
Durbar shielded for safety from rains (kp
21/06/2017)
NRA
plans
to mobilise local unit representatives (ht
21/06/2017)
Tingla
residents
boycott election (kp 20/06/2017)
Forgotten
schools: Classes cannot be conducted during the
rains or on particularly hot or cold days,
by Vikash Raj Satyal (rep 20/06/2017)
Quake-hit
Majhis
yet to rebuild houses, lack technical support
(ht 19/06/2017)
Two
years
on: There are several reasons why quake
survivors haven’t received the second tranche of
govt aid, by Jagannath Adhikari (kp
16/06/2017)
Kavre
quake
victims receive second housing grant instalment
(ht 16/06/2017)
Reconstruction
of
schools snail-paced: DPM Shrestha (ht
16/06/2017)
No
building
in disaster-prone areas: Rebuilding authority
(kp 16/06/2017)
NRA
signs
housing grant agreement in Dolakha (ht
15/06/2017)
NRA
proposes bringing four CLPIUs under its
authority, by Gyan P. Neupane (rep
15/06/2017)
85pc
of
quake beneficiaries yet to start rebuilding
houses (ht 13/06/2017) [Nobody can start rebuilding houses with
50.000 Rs and a promised second tranche that may
arrive at an unknown time in the far future!!]
NRA
CEO addresses World Reconstru ction Conference
(rep 07/06/2017), NRA
chief
commits to supporting marginalised people
(kp 08/06/2017)
Reconstruction
drive
in Kavre sees 10 pc progress (ht 06/06/2017)
Post-quake
rebuilding: Leaving no one behind; NRA’s
strategies will bear fruit when there are
effective institutions and capable human
resources, by Riya Basnet (rep 06/06/2017)
Newly
elected
representatives seek role in post-quake works:
Concerned by slow recovery, the newly elected
officials offer to assist NRA in expediting the
reconstruction works, by Sudip Kaini (kp
05/06/2017)
Burning
in
the aftermath: Earthquake survivors in temporary
shelters, especially children, are at risk of
burn injuries, by Sahina Shrestha (nt
02/06/2017)
NRA
sends
team to follow up on complaints (kp
01/06/2017)
NRA
launches
helpline for queries on post-earthquake
reconstruction (ht 01/06/2017)
Women
fill in for men in quake reconstruction, by
Ashok Sujan Shrestha (rep 27/05/2017)
Quake
victims
hope elected reps will help them get grant
(ht 26/05/2017)
Govt
to
give loan sans interest to quake-hit (kp
25/05/2017)
Raw
materials
imports up as construction rebounds, by
Madhav Dhungana (kp 23/05/2017)
BFIs’
credit
disbursement to construction sector on the rise
(ht 18/05/2017)
NRA’s
mobile
app for better building (kp 10/05/2017)
Earthquake
victims
cynical about polls, by Rajkumar Parajuli
(ht 10/05/2017), Poll
candidates snub displaced flood victims:
Displaced voters seek written commitment from
candidates for resettlement, by Nagendra
Upadhyaya (rep 10/05/2017)
Landless
quake
victims to get additional grant of Rs 200,000
(ht 09/05/2017)
Rising
from
the rubble: Today, Singati has the look of a
boomtown again, there is concrete being laid,
houses are being rebuilt, carpenters are busy
(nt 05/05/2017)
Playing
with
our future: Perhaps it is because public schools
have been disproportionately affected by the
quakes that the authorities’ response has been
so slow, by Deepak Thapa (kp 04/05/2017)
2,300
households in need of relocation: Study:
Households should be shifted to safer site in
next two years to escape further damages, by
Gyan P. Neupane (rep 04/05/2017)
NRA
to
help preserve Valley settlements (ht
03/05/2017)
Households
in
17 less-affected districts to get grant (ht
03/05/2017)
Health
post
still functioning under tents (ht
03/05/2017)
Dolakha
quake
victims weathering storm, snow in temporary
shelters (ht 02/05/2017)
Quake
survivors
still in temporary shelters, by Anish Tiwari
(kp 01/05/2017)
Separate
and
unequal: Reconstruction has failed the
mostdisadvantaged, landless sections of people
(kp 01/05/2017)
18
out
of 51 apartment buildings declared ‘safe’,
by Sanjeev Giri (kp 30/04/2017)
Sluggish
Reconstruction, by Kushal Pokharel (rn
29/04/2017)
Women
in
reconstruction: Rasuwa women are taking on new
roles to build back better, by Utsav Shakya
(kp 29/04/2017)
Rs
308b budget gap for reconstruction: NRA (rep
28/04/2017)
Quake
victims in Kavre yet to receive second tranche,
by Madhusudan Guragain (rep 28/04/2017)
Reconstructing
the
reconstruction authority: The contrast between
the lethargic NRA and its can-do CEO couldn’t be
more stark, by Om Astha Rai (nt 28/04/2017)
Govt
for
building back better Nepal (kp 27/04/2017) [And when will you start??],
Done
right,
quake recovery raises economic hopes (kp
28/04/2017)
Post-quake
rebuilding: Information gap; Better information
management could have addressed issues such as
poor coordination between development and
government agencies, by Saugat Gautam (rep
27/04/2017)
NRA
CEO visits quake reconstruction in Dolakha
(rep 27/04/2017)
Earthquake
displaced
in Palpa’s Sukekot yet to receive housing aid,
by Madhav Aryal (kp 26/04/2017)
Two
years on, reconstruction yet to gain pace in
Gorkha, by Narahari Sapkota (rep 26/04/2017)
Nepal:
Two
years on, the government continues to fail
marginalised earthquake survivors (Amnesty
International 25/04/2017) [see full reports "What
I
want is the government to help" and "Building
Inequality"], NRA
responds
to AI report (rep 28/04/2017)
Reconstruction
moves
at snail’s pace: NRA blames lack of trained
workers, funding shortfall (kp 25/04/2017),
International
community
urges for speedy reconstruction (kp
25/04/2017), Unfinished
task:
Two years have passed since the great
earthquake, yet a lot needs to be done (kp
25/04/2017), Delayed
grants
irk development partners (ht 25/04/2017)
Reconstruction
progress
remains dismal, by Sujan Dhungana (ht
25/05/2017)
Scientific
research
Beyond: Gorkha earthquake, by Dipendra
Gautam (ht 25/04/2017)
Rebuilding
moves
at snail’s pace in Dolakha (ht 25/04/2017),
Dhading
victims
left in the lurch (ht 25/04/2017)
Water
shortage
halts rebuilding in Sindhupalchok, by Anup
Ojha (kp 25/04/2017)
The
Turbulent Flow Of Indrawati, by Prem Khatry
(rn 25/04/2017)
Recovery
works
far from over, by Anish Tiwaria and Sudip
Kaini (kp 24/04/2017), Only
one
house built in two years, by Tika Prasad
Bhatta (kp 24/04/2017) [related to Gaikhura,
Ramechhap]
Building
retrofitting
guidelines published: More than 500,000
residential buildings and 2,656 office buildings
were completely destroyed (kp 24/04/2017)
Traditional
approach
to doing things led to delay in reconstruction,
interview with o Govinda Raj Pokharel, CEO of NRA
(kp 24/04/2017)
Donors
commit
to extend 75pc of funds (kp 23/04/2017)
Landless
quake
survivors to get extra Rs 200,000 (ht
23/04/2017)
Beyond
reconstruction:
While rebuilding of private and public
infrastructure needs to be a key priority for
the government, it must not overshadow other
crucial needs of the affected people, by
Neetu Pokharel and Som Niroula (kp 22/04/2017)
Comprehensive
recovery:
Initiatives to address quake survivors’ social
vulnerability must be scaled up (kp
21/04/2017)
Sindhupalchowk
quake
victims left in the lurch (ht 21/04/2017)
Righting
reconstruction
gone wrong: Kathmandu’s youth have taken the
lead in lobbying for more sensitive restoration
of heritage sites destroyed in the 2015
earthquake, by Alok Tuladhar (nt 21/04/2017)
Philim
2
years later: Two years after the earthquake, a
government school reopens in Philim with help
from local community and donors (nt
21/04/2017)
Building
back
unsafe: Property owners in Gongabu continue to
flout the building code despite the death and
destruction there in the 2015 earthquake, by
Om Astha Rai (nt 21/04/2017)
Cementing
a
future: Locals in Patan are rebuilding by
blending traditional façades with hidden
concrete beams and pillars, by Sonia Awale
(nt 21/04/2017)
Quake-damaged
police
infra yet to be rebuilt, by Manish Gautam
(kp 20/04/2017)
One
man builds houses for 55 quake families, by
Shankar Shrestha (rep 20/04/2017) [Govt and NRA will be very
angry!?]
Many
houses
being rebuilt haven’t followed building codes
(ht 20/04/2017)
Quake
victims
build own model houses (ht 20/04/2017)
Dolakha
locals
choose to stay on landslide-prone ancestral
land (ht 20/04/2017)
Heavy
storm
blows away 125 temporary shelters in Dolakha
(ht 19/04/2017)
Signing
of
housing grant deal begins in Dhankuta (ht
19/04/2017)
Quake
victims
in Dolakha wait for grant to finish rebuilding
(ht 18/04/2017)
30
more settlements likely to require relocation,
by Gyan P. Neupane (rep 18/04/2017)
NRA
bid to fast-track complaint investigation,
by Gyan P. Neupane (rep 17/04/2017)
Timber
shortage
halts post-quake rebuilding, by Anish Tiwari
(kp 16/04/2017)
Relocation
procedure
gets NRA’s approval (ht 16/04/2017)
Bypassing
government:
Nepal government continues to face criticism for
delays in rebuilding, but so do international
relief agencies, by Marty Logan (nt
14/04/2017)
Bhojpur
quake
victims set to get part of govt grant (ht
13/04/23017)
Tens
of
thousands of quake survivors at risk again: A
third of homes poorly built, says NRA CEO
Pokharel (ht 12 /04/2017) [How shall they built houses
in a safe way if govt and NRA deny them the aid
provided by international donors??]
Grant
agreement
signing begins (ht 12/05/2017)
Earthquake
victims
await second instalment of grant (ht
12/04/2017)
NRA
distributes
1st instalment of aid in Tanahun (kp
11/04/2017)
Nepal’s
security
forces received high ratings for their
post-quake work, interview with Sudhindra
Sharma (kp 10/04/2017)
NRA
to
facilitate distribution of land ownership
certificates (ht 09/04/2017)
Shortage
of
timber affects reconstruction in Ramechhap
(ht 09/04/2017)
NRA
devises
work plan to relocate vulnerable families
(kp 08/04/2017), NRA
endorses guideline on relocation of quake-hit
(rep 08/04/2017)
Engineers
‘harassed’
by earthquake victims: Quake survivors who
breached building code clamour for housing aid,
by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp 07/04/2017)
At
the
receiving end: Because Sorthak village is
located in Chitwan district, it has not received
as much attention as neighbouring Gorkha, by
Raisa Pande (nt 07/04/2017)
NRA
to
provide aid to quake-hit lacking land ownership
docs (kp 06/04/2017)
Australian
envoy
on women and girls stresses building back better
(kp 06/04/2017)
Two
years
since gorkha earthquake: Only a quarter of
damaged health facilities rebuilt, by Manish
Gautam (kp 05/04/2017)
NRB
asked
to ensure easy loans to quake survivors (kp
05/04/2017), NRA
asks NRB to relax process for concessional loan,
by Gyan P. Neupane (rep 05/04/2017)
Lumle
quake
victims get housing grant (ht 04/04/2017)
NRA
to
give grant in 17 more districts (ht
03/04/2017), Grant
distribution kicks off in 17 less-affected
districts (rep 04/04/2017)
Red
Cross
rebuilds 80 classrooms (ht 03/04/2017)
SC
orders
govt to ensure safe housing to people (ht
31/03/2017)
2nd
batch
of aid reaches only 103 families in Kavre
(kp 30/03/2017)
IACFP
working in quake-hit districts without permit:
NRA (rep 30/03/2017) [NRA should better help the earthquake
victims instead of looking for organisations
that do its job!]
Victims
tossed
into bureaucratic minefield (ht 28/03/2017),
Thousands
of
quake victims left in a lurch (ht
28/03/2017), Reconstruction
drive
sluggish in Sindhuli (ht 28/03/2017)
Barpak
survivors
fear they may not get further aid, by Sudip
Kaini (kp 27/03/2017)
Landslide-hit
return
to live in disaster-prone site, by Ananda
Gautam (kp 27/03/2017)
Ramechhap
locals
struggle to build houses for lack of timber,
by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp 26/03/2017)
NRA
website
gives wrong information about rebuilt houses
(ht 25/03/2017), NRA
says previous team misinformed on number of
houses rebuilt, by Gyan P. Neupane (rep
25/03/2017)
Ministry
of
forest told to supply timber to victims of
earthquake (kp 24/03/2017)
Lack
of
forms deprives victims 2nd batch of aid, by
Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp 23/03/2017)
NRA
Act inadequate for reconstruction task: CEO
Pokharel; "If the NRA remained with the same
powers and guidelines as now, I don't see any
future for it" (rep 23/03/2017)
Govt
told
to launch reconstruction fund within a month
(ht 23/03/2017)
Low-cost
designs:
The low-cost designs could also be popularized
among non-victims across the country who have a
low budget to build a house (ht 23/03/2017)
STC
okayed
to sell piled up stock of zinc sheets (kp
22/03/2017)
Lack
of classrooms affecting children’s education:
Students of various grades taught under the same
tattered tarpaulin, by Narahari Sapkota (rep
22/03/2017)
NRA
approves
six new designs of low-cost housing (ht
22/03/2017) [Such houses
can hardly be built at that cost in remote
mountain areas with no road access where houses
have to be built on slopes!]
Reconstruction
delayed further as few quake victims turn up for
2nd tranche, by Gyan P. Neupane (rep
20/03/2017)
NRA
Chief urges support of local communities for
reconstruction (rep 18/03/2017)
NRA
starts
distributing 3rd tranche of housing aid (kp
16/03/2017), Dolakha
quake
victims start getting third tranche: So far, 67
houses have been rebuilt in Dolakha following
the government set criteria (rep 17/03/2017)
Reconstruction
still delayed in Dhading, by Shankar
Shrestha (rep 14/03/2017)
2nd
tranche
of grant uncertain in Sindhupalchok (kp
13/03/2017)
NRA
asks
govt to issue budget for resettlement (kp
13/03/2017)
Reconstruction
affected in lack of professional engineers,
by Madhusadan Guragain (rep 13/03/2017)
Non-life
insurers still to settle 25 percent of
quake-related claims (rep 13/03/2017)
Reconstruction
impasse:
A stable and effective leadership is essential
in the NRA to overcome obstacles, by Narayan
Marasini (kp 12/03/2017)
Cold
snap
adds to misery of quake-displaced (kp
12/03/2017)
Kavre
villagers
get 2nd tranche of housing aid, by Nagendra
Adhikari (kp 11/03/2017)
NRA
decides
on Rs 200,00 land purchase fund (kp
11/03/2017)
Assessment
of
quake damage over in Parbat (ht 10/03/2017)
Mountains
without
men: Two years later, a serious shortage of
construction workers is hampering
post-earthquake rebuilding, by Om Astha Rai
(nt 10/03/2017)
Rebuilding
a future, by Simrika Sharma (rep 10/03/2017)
The
day
Ban Ki-moon cried: Have we done enough to
support the earthquake victims in Nepal?, by
Surendra Bahadur Sijapati (kp 09/03/2017)
NRA
deadline leaves landless quake victims worried,
by Narahari Sapkota (rep 09/01/2017)
Quake-displaced
demand
safe place for resettlement, by Sudip Kaini
(kp 08/03/2017)
15pc
quake
victims yet to receive first tranche of govt aid
(ht 08/03/2017) [In 14
of the 31 affected districts; people in the
other districts have got nothcing at all after
almost two years and, to a greater part still
live in shelters!!]
NRA
to probe complaints through CDOs, by
Gyan P. Neupane (rep 07/03/2017)
‘Reconstruction
work
procedure to be amended’ (ht 06/03/2017)
Quake-hit
schools
being rebuilt in Ramechhap (ht 04/03/2017)
Rebuilding
of
schools delayed in Okhaldhunga, by Kumbharaj
Rai (kp 03/03/2017)
Contract
signing
brings hope to Kavre quake victims (ht
02/03/2017)
Quake-hit
school
building rebuilt (ht 02/03/2017)
Dhading
reconstruction
moving at a snail’s pace, by Harihar Singh
Rathour (kp 28/02/2017)
Lack
of
fund slows over 100 projects (kp 28/02/2017)
233
quake
ravaged school buildings rebuilt in Chitwan,
by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 28/02/2017)
Govt
intensifies
quality check of construction materials (ht
28/02/2017)
NRA
proposes
land grant for quake-hit squatters:
Beneficiaries will have to leave original
settlements and buy pieces of land in safer
areas to rebuild. by Manish Gautam (kp
27/02/2017), NRA
plans Rs 100,000 relocation grants to households
at risk, by Gyan P. Neupane (rep 27/02/2017)
NRB
to
facilitate quake victims to build houses (ht
27/02/2017)
Shortage
of
workers delays reconstruction, by Kumbharaj
Rai (kp 25/02/2017)
NRA
dials
dev partners for more technical support (kp
24/02/2017), NRA
asks donors to extend technical support to quake
victims, by Gyan P. Neupane (rep 24/02/2017)
First
tranche
of grant given in some Kavre VDCs (ht
24/02/2017)
Bhumlutar,
Phalante
quake victims finally sign aid agreement, by
Nagendra Adhikari (kp 24/02/2017)
Remote
Chitwan
settlements left without school after earthquake,
by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 23/02/2017)
No
relief
for quake victims (ht 23/02/2017)
The
man
who rebuilt a village (kp 23/02/2017)
Rs
50m
released to mobilise engineers (kp
23/02/2017)
NRA
to
call beneficiaries to claim 2nd aid tranche
(kp 22/02/2017)
NRNA
starts
building housing project for earthquake victims,
by Sudip Kaini (kp 20/02/2017)
NRA
nudges ministry over interest-free loan for
quake victims (rep 20/02/2017)
Much
delayed
reconstruction: Now that rebuilding houses is
finally under way, there’s much the NRA should
focus on (kp 20/02/2017)
Reconstruction
of 4,067 quake-damaged schools yet to begin,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 20/02/2017)
Families
that
rebuilt homes on their own to get lump sum
grant: Those who have rebuilt their houses on
their own following the prescribed
guidelines for reconstruction will be
eligible for the aid: NRA (kp 18/02/2017) [Victims in the other 17
affected districts still get nothing!?]
Timber
distribution
for reconstruction (ht 18/02/2017)
Post
quake rebuilding: Let women lead; With male
members away, women have started rebuilding
their homes destroyed by 2015 earthquakes on
their own, by Kriti Bhuju (rep 18/02/2017)
Post-quake
reconstruction:
Education of thousands of students in jeopardy;
MoE at wit’s end as govt scrambles to generate
fund to rebuild schools, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 17/02/2017)
600
quake-hit
families still live in Chuchepati tents (ht
16/02/2017)
For
whom hope is all that’s left, by Pushpa Raj
Acharya (ht 16/02/2017)
PAC
begins probe into I/NGOs irregularities (rep
15/02/2017) [I/NGOs are
criticised because they do not do what the
Nepali state should have done for long???]
SC
allows
NRA CEO to remain in post (rep 15/02/2017)
Process
to activate Rs 21b NRA fund starts, by
Sangeet Sangroula (rep 14/02/2017)
19,866
to
get aid for retrofitting houses, by Pushpa
Raj Acharya (ht 13/02/2017)
Chepang
folk
deprived of housing aid (kp 13/02/2017)
Quake
victims’
data collected in 35 Khotang VDCs (ht
13/02/2017)
Red
tape
stalls grant, loan signing with India: Indian
govt has pledged $1b for rebuilding efforts
(kp 12/02/2017)
NRA
begins
work on integreted settlements: An NRA taskforce
has started identifying an
alternative place for the 57 out of 117
settlement areas deemed highly vulnerable
(kp 10/02/2017)
Sindhupalchowk
quake victims start getting 2nd tranche, by
Dhruba Dangal (rep 10/02/2017)
Quake
victims
in Ramechhap say rebuilding aid hard to get,
by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp 10/02/2017)
53%
quake
victims in Valley receive first tranche (rep
10/02/2017)
NRA
told
to ensure homes for quake-hit before monsoon: A
compiled data from the NRA shows 14,000 houses
damaged by the earthquake have been rebuilt and
another 30,625 are under construction as of
Wednesday (kp 09/02/2017), Distribute
first
and second tranches by next 3 months: House
panel to NRA, by Sangeet Sangroula (rep
09/02/2017)
Proposal
to lift ban on excavation in Chure worries
stakeholders, experts, by Mithilesh Yadav
(rep 09/02/2017)
720
families
in 4 districts get 2nd tranche of aid (kp
07/02/2017)
NRA
starts
training Nepal Army personnel for reconstruction
(kp 06/02/2017)
Schools
grab
community homes in north Dhading, by Harihar
Singh Rathour (kp 05/02/2017)
Panel
formed
for resettlement of landslide-prone villages
(kp 04/02/2017)
Govt
fails to provide promised timber to quake
victims, by Shankar Shrestha (rep
04/02/2017)
NRA:
Over
27,000 quake-hit families rebuilding houses
(kp 03/01/2017)
VDC
secys’
protest hits reconstruction, by Raj Kumar
Karki (kp 03/02/2017)
One
more integrated settlement (ht 03/02/2017)
Reconstruction
yet
to begin in 10 Kavre VDCs (ht 03/02/2017)
Price
hike
of sand, stones affects rebuilding: Quake
survivors accuse local crusher operators of
profiteering, by Nagendra Adhikari (kp
03/02/2017)
Dhading
DAO
to investigate fake quake victims, by
Harihar Singh Rathour (kp 03/02/2017)
I/NGOs
told
to maintain transparency (kp 03/02/2017)
NRA
chief
lays foundation stone for integrated settlement:
Quake survivors of 58 risky areas to be shifted
to integrated settlement (kp 02/02/2017)
Landless
quake victims: Why are we deprived of state aid?,
by Shankar Shrestha (ht 02/02/2017)
93pc
families
get first tranche of aid (kp 01/02/2017) [But only of those registered
in 14 of the 31 affected districts! This is
unbelievable after almost two years!]
Rebuilding
Sindhuli houses could take more than a century,
by Rudra Pangeni (rep 01/02/2017)
NWEDC
restores
quake-affected communities (kp 31/01/2017)
NRA
to
mobilise fresh engineers in quake-hit districts
(ht 31/01/2017), NRA
planning to spend hefty amount for deploying
volunteers: Experts term the plan unnecessary
and a populist program, by Sangeet Sangroula
(rep 31/01/2017)
Laprak
quake victims dismayed by NRNA's terms, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 31/01/2017)
Failure
to train masons on time slows reconstruction,
by Sangeet Sangroula (rep 30/01/2017)
Government
puts local restructuring report on hold, by
Sangeet Sangroula (rep 28/01/2017)
NRA
releases
Rs 11.75b for second tranche (kp 27/01/2017)
Various
I/NGOs building health posts flouting
reconstruction guidelines, by Sangeet
Sangroula (rep 26/01/2017), NRA
to quiz ministry over lack of design approval
(rep 27/01/2017)
Shortage
of
masons threatens to hamper reconstruction
efforts (kp 25/01/2017)
966
families
without land titles denied housing aid, by
Nagendra Adhikari (kp 25/01/2017)
Rebuilding
Kathmandu:
When utopian romance in the ‘Master Plan’ fails
to connect with grassroots aspirations, ‘rumour’
fills the ensuing void and morphs into
action-inducing ‘reality’, by Sabin
Ninglekhu (kp 24/01/2017)
Housing
aid
distribution starts in Bhaktapur (kp
23/01/2017)
NRA
to hire staffs on contract to resolve manpower
crunch, by Sangeret Sangroula (rep
23/01/2017)
Nepal
Army
personnel to aid house reconstruction (kp
21/01/2017), Army,
APF to train masons in quake districts (rep
21/01/2017)
The
grant
rush: As the distribution of the housing
reconstruction grants begins to pick up pace,
rampant irregularities threaten to derail
the legitimacy of the rebuilding process, by
Roshan Sedhai (kp 21/01/2017), Reconstruction
update (ht 21/01/2017)
econstruction
drive
stops with grant nowhere in sight (ht
20/01/2017)
Cash
transfers in Nepal earthquake response, by
Sangmo Yonjan-Tamang (rep 20/01/2017)
Failing
to
make the list: Many genuine earthquake survivors
are missing from the list for housing grants due
to frequent changes in government, by
Shreejana Shrestha (nt 20/01/2017)
Dolakha
reincarnated:
The earthquake destroyed the historic trading
town of Dolakha, rebuilding it would revive its
historical importance, by Sahina Shrestha
(nt 20/01/2017)
NRA
seeks army, police manpower for reconstruction,
by Sangeet Sangroula (rep 19/01/2017), NRA
seeks
NA, APF help in reconstruction (kp
20/01/2017)
Forgotten
victims:
Petty politics is slowing down the
reconstruction process and hurting the
earthquake survivors, by David Kainee (kp
19/01/2017)
Second
reconstruction tranche from today (rep
18/01/2017), Post-quake
reconstruction:
2nd tranche of aid distribution begins (kp
19/01/2017)
NRA
to monitor I/NGO activities from next week,
by Sangeet Sangroula (rep 16/01/2017)
Quake-hit
in
Ramechhap demand 2nd tranche of aid, by Tika
Prasad Bhatta (kp 16/01/2017)
Timber
shortage
in Gorkha hits reconstruction progress, by
Sudip Kaini (kp 16/01/2017)
47.9
million cu ft timber needed for reconstruction
(rep 16/01/2017)
Longer
the
delay in spending available funds, harder it
will be to secure new funds, interview with
Govind Raj Pokharel, new CEO of NRA (kp
16/01/2017), Ramp
up
spending: That govt hasn’t acted, despite
knowing pitfalls of low capital expenditure, is
embarrassing (kp 17/01/2017), Low
capital
expenditure: Begging for money but not having a
plan to spend it is an age-old problem in Nepal,
by Sujeev Shakya (kp 17/01/2017), Govt
to
unveil action plan to ramp up capital
expenditure, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
18/01/2017)
NRA
bid
to issue rebuilding grants before monsoon
(kp 15/01/2017)
Reconstruction
chipping
away Bhaktapur’s heritage (ht 15/01/2017)
Quake
survivors
unhappy with government grant (ht
14/01/2017)
NRA
starts
data collection in Bhojpur, Khotang districts
(kp 13/01/2017)
Reconstruction
Works: Moving At A Snail’s Pace, by Uttam
Maharjan (rn 12/01/2017)
Leadership
change
in NRA: Govt dismisses Gyewali, brings Pokharel
back, by Pragati Shahi (kp 12/01/2017)
Localisation
of
humanitarian response: A lesson from Nepal’s
earthquake is that INGOs need to strengthen
local actors instead of themselves, by
Subindra Bogati and Andy Featherstone (kp
12/01/2017)
NRNA
begins
construction of housing facility in Laprak,
by Sudip Kaini (kp 12/01/2017)
Over
19,000
Bhaktapur quake-hit awaiting aid (kp
12/01/2017)
Continued
aftershocks:
Govt has to seriously look into how it is
handling post-disaster reconstruction (kp
09/01/2017)
Shortage
of
skilled workers affects reconstruction work
(ht 07/01/2017)
Tired
of
the cold wait, quake survivors rebuild on their
own (kp 06/01/2017)
Getting
the
facts straight: It’s high time the government
and donors made an honest assessment of
reconstruction and resettlement works in
earthquake-affected areas, by Navin Singh
Khadka (kp 06/01/2017), Learning
to
reconstruct: Volunteers from around the world
are filling the gap left by the government in
helping rebuild quake-damaged schools, by
Shreejana Shrestha (nt 06/01/2017) [Be
sure, NRA and govt will be looking for ways how
to criticise and punish these voluteers!],
Owning
up
to our past: Bureaucratic insensitivities worry
local communities working to rebuild heritage
sites, by Sahina Shrestha (nt 06/01/2017)
NRA
chief
furnishes clarification: Gyewali points finger
of blame at govt agencies; Says he has fulfilled
his duty within the given jurisdiction, by
Pragati Shahi (kp 05/01/2017), No
sight
of solution to thousands of landless Kavre quake
victims’ problem, by Raj Kumar Parajuli (ht 05/01/2017), NRA
chief Gyewali blames govt for the delay, by
Sangeet Sangroula (rep 05/01/2017), Govt
‘decides’
to sack NRA chief Gyewali, by Praveen Dhakal
(rep 05/01/2017), Govt
prepares
ground for giving NRA chief executive officer
boot: Asks Sushil Gyewali to clarify why he
should not be relieved of dutiesn CEO says he is
yet to receive any letter seeking fresh
clarification (kp 06/01/2017), Gyewali
to
furnish clarification tomorrow (ht
07/01/2017), Gyewali
gets
letter that seeks to send him packing (kp
07/01/2017), No
justifiable
ground to sack me: NRA CEO Gyewali defends,
by Samipa Khanal (kp 09/01/2017), Gyewali
moves
court: Gyewali demands an interim order seeking
his reinstatement as the chief executive officer
of the National Reconstruction Authority (kp
17/01/2019)
Female
contractor
busy building quake-hit village, by Harihar
Singh Rathour (kp 05/01/2017)
Engineers
reach
Lamjung villages to collect data of quake
survivors (kp 05/01/2017)
Tripartite
pact
signed with 87pc of registered families: NRA
(kp 04/01/2017)
Survey
for housing grant to be complete only by
February (rep 03/01/2017), Data
collection
of quake victims in limbo (ht 03/01/2017)
Quake-hit
families
crushing pebbles for living, by Harihar
Singh Rathour (kp 01/01/2017)
Govt
seeks
clarification from NRA chief exec: PM’s core
team is learnt to have the perception that
Gyewali subtly defied the government’s
instructions on the pretext of legal hurdles and
donor sensitivity, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp
30/12/2016), Government
seeks
clarification from NRA chief over ‘lacklustre’
performance, by Lekhanath Pandey (ht
30/12/2016), Govt
seeks clarification from NRA CEO again, by
Sangeet Sangroula (rep 30/12/2016)
NRA
mobilises
teams to find out vulnerable settlements (kp
28/12/2016) [Please take
time! It's only 20 months since these
settlements have been destroyed!], Technical
teams
to collect data on quake victims (ht
29/12/2016)
NRA
staff
agree to return to work (kp 27/12/2016), Govt
increases
allowances for rebuilding technicians (kp
30/12/2016)
One
year
of reconstruction: Staff crunch dogs NRA since
birth (kp 26/12/2016)
Quake
victims’
data collection begins in Khotang (ht
25/12/2016)
Return
to
work within two days, govt tells engineers:
Challenged to hand in individual resignations at
concerned offices (kp 23/12/2016)
Govt
to
collect data of quake-hit households in Lamjung:
An official at the Central Bureau of Statistics
says engineers will start digital data
compilation from December 30, by Aash Gurung
(kp 22/12/2016) [Which
engineers? Those who have resigned??]
Reconstruction
woes:
Providing succour to earthquake survivors is a
national priority as well as a humanitarian
imperative, by Maina Dhital (kp 22/12/2016)
Bitter
winter
looms: Govt’s handling of reconstruction has
been slow and irresponsible (kp 21/12/2016),
Construction
of
quake victims’ houses stops, by Arjun Poudel
(ht 21/12/2016)
NRA
engineers,
technicians resign en masse, by Pragati
Shahi (kp 21/12/2016), NRA
upset
by engineers’ unsporting action (kp
22/12/2016)
Post-quake
rebuilding:
Ministry okays distribution of second tranche of
aid, by Pragati Shahi (kp 20/12/2016)
On
the brink: One and a half years is a really long
time for rebuilding. No wonder earthquake
survivors feel like it’s been ages, by Ravi
Lochan Paudyal (rep 20/12/2016)
Council
of
ministers to discuss Kavre quake victims’ issues
(ht 20/12/2016) [??]
NRA’s
amendment
proposal okayed (ht 19/12/2016)
Only
3637
quake victims of 94072 in Valley get first
tranche, by Sangeet Sangroula (rep
19/12/2016)
Rural
reconstruction: Hope amid ruins; Government
needs to ensure that reconstruction carried on
individual basis or through I/NGOs meets safety
standards, by Sandesh Paudyal (rep
17/12/2016)
Rebuilding
staff
on warpath (kp 17/12/2016), NRA
forwards
proposal to revise technicians’ incentives: The
frequent strikes by the technical staff
mobilised in quake-affected districts have
affected the reconstruction works in rural
districts (kp 18/12/2016)
Political
stalemate
‘stalled’ reconstruction process (kp
16/12/2016), Political
stalemate
‘stalled’ reconstruction process (kp
16/12/2016)
800
earthquake
victims start rebuilding in Kavre (ht
15/12/2016)
Quake
victims
request second batch of aid, by Nagendra
Adhikari (kp 13/12/2016)
Over
445k
families received first tranche of housing aid
(kp 10/12/2016)
INGOs
unable to fund Rs 300,000 quake grants for all,
by Sangeet Sangroula (rep 10/12/2016)
Promises
to
keep: The pledged assistance and the need for
reconstruction should receive high priority of
the government and the political parties (ht
09/12/2016)
Building
back
Bungamati: Earthquake survivors of historic town
find that preserving heritage is expensive
business, by Astha Joshi (nt 09/12/2016)
NRA
lacks
fund to distribute second tranche of housing
grant (ht 08/12/2016)
NRA
coordination
committee urges acceleration in reconstruction
works (ht 08/12/2016)
Most
I/NGOs behind on monthly reports: NRA (ht
08/12/2016) [Deeds are
more important than reports! What are you doing,
NRA?]
Reconstruction
of
health post buildings delayed, by Sudip
Kaini (kp 07/12/2016)
Unstable
policies, standards, procedures hindering
reconstruction, by Rudra Pangeni (rep
07/12/2016)
NRA-hired
engineers
start protest (kp 07/12/2016), Engineers’
strike
hits reconstruciton, by Sudip Kaini and
Anish Tiwari (kp 09/12/2016)
Red
Cross unhappy with govt's NGO policy on
reconstruction (rep 07/12/2016)
Sluggish
construction affects reconstruction: In lack of
building, a school operates from toilet, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 06/12/2016)
NRA
misses its self-set deadlines again: The NRA has
signed grant agreements with only 58,405 of the
total 94,072 eligible victims, by Sangeet
Sangroula (rep 06/12/2016)
Survivors
of
quake-hit districts still waiting: Large number
of affected households in Dhading, Makawanpur,
Nuwakot yet to get housing aid, by Pushpa
Raj Acharya (ht 04/12/2016)
Quake
victims demand inclusion of genuine victims for
grants: Only 57 percent victims sign agreement
due to obstruction so far; NRA shows
indifference about the problem, by Sangeet
Sangroula (rep 03/12/2016)
10,600
quake-affected
deprived of housing aid (kp 02/12/2016)
[related to Makwanpur district only]
Quake
victims yet to recieve house construction grants,
by Madhusudhan Guragain (rep 01/12/2016)
Reconstruction
of
govt buildings begins (ht 27/11/2016)
NRA
picks
BFIs to distribute aid inside Valley (kp
26/11/2016), 5
days left for signing agreement with Valley
quake victims (rep 26/11/2016)
300
schools
without classrooms in Sindhupalchok, by
Anish Tiwari (kp 26/11/2016)
17,000
cu
ft timber distributed in Sindhupalchok: Few
families have started building homes due to
‘insufficient’ fund; Nepal receives around
Rs 70 billion every year in remittances from
migrant workers who are based in India, by
Anish Tiwari (kp 25/11/2016) [!!]
PM's
promise delays second tranche of quake grant:
1,114 victims apply for second tranche, by
Sangeet Sangroula (rep 24/11/2016)
Quake
victims in despair as harsh winter looms, by
Dhruba Dangal (rep 24/11/2016)
Quake
victims left to shiver under temporary tents:
How can we construct quake-resistant house with
Rs 50,000?: Quake victims, by Narahari
Sapkota (rep 23/11/2016)
Rebuilding
ongoing
for 12k houses: 3162 houses being
reconstructed in Nuwakot, 2143 in Dhading, 1583
in Sindhupalchok, 1214 in Dolakha and 994 in
Kavre (kp 23/11/2016), Reconstruction
of
around 12,000 homes begins (ht 23/11/2016)
53
homes
built in two months: Earthquake survivors were
provided construction materials instead of cash,
by Nagendra Adhikari (kp 23/11/2016)
Timely
release
of funds crucial to implement projects: NRA; The
NRA has estimated a budget of Rs 120.75 billion
alone for the housing aid—for the first and
second phase of aid distribution to around 7.5m
households (kp 22/11/2016), Now
for
action: The NRA has spent a lot of time and
energy just in preparing the action plan. Now,
it is time to put the plan into action (ht
22/11/2016)
As
winter looms Sankhu quake victims start
rebuilding without aid, by Gyan P. Neupane
and Sangeet Sangroula (rep 22/11/2016)
NRNA
to
rebuild houses in Laprak (ht 22/11/2016) [Why has NRNA not been
allowed to do so before?]
NRA
unveils
time-bound action plan: The NRA says it will
deploy 100 volunteers to each of the affected
VDCs; sign agreements with quake victims in
Kathmandu Valley within 10 days (kp
21/11/2016), NRA
to
settle complaints by Jan (ht 21/11/2016), Quake
survivors
in Gulmi sans housing aid, by Ghanshyam
Gautam (kp 21/11/2016)
Govt
preparing
to show NRA chief door? Rift between Dahal,
Gyewali has widened of late, by John Narayan
Parajuli (kp 18/11/2016)
6,000
quake
victims living around BP Highway not granted
permits for house reconstruction (ht
18/11/2016)
Post-earthquake
response:
The way forward, by Kedar Neupane (ht
18/11/2016)
Recovery
is
still a far cry in Barpak, by Sudip Kaini
(kp 18/11/2016), Quake-destroyed
homestays
reopen after reconstruction, by Sudip Kaini
(kp 18/11/2016)
Quake
victims in trouble as houses under construction
fail to meet standard, by Madhusudhan
Guragain (rep 17/11/2016)
PM
Dahal
talks to NRA chair about reconstruction delays:
The directive committee of National
Reconstruction Authority will discuss a
time-bound action plan on Sunday (kp
16/11/2016), PM
dissatisfied
with NRA’s work (ht 16/11/2016), Approaching
winter
concerns quake victims, by Anish Tiwari (kp
16/11/2016), Community
school
students still studying in temporary classrooms,
by Pratap Bista (kp 16/11/2016), Reconstruction
grant
agreement signing resumes at Raksirang (ht
16/11/2016)
Housing
aid
yet to reach needy in remote VDCs, by Kumbha
Raj Rai (kp 15/11/2016)
NRA
teams
to monitor housing aid utilisation (kp
12/11/2016)
Locals
rue
govt delay in signing grant agreement (ht
10/11/2016)
NRA
mobilises
Rs 3.57billion for housing grant in Valley: The
fund will be used to provide first tranche of Rs
50,000 to the beneficiaries (kp 10/11/2016)
It'll
take over 3 months to address quake victims'
complaints: NRA, by Sangeet Sangroula (rep
08/11/2016)
IB
mulls
household insurance for quake grant
beneficiaries (kp 06/11/2016)
Housing
aid
signing process begins in Valley (kp
05/11/2016), Govt
to
sign grant deal with quake survivors (ht
06/11/2016)
Langtang
folk
step up rebuilding efforts, by Prakash
Adhikari (kp 30/10/2016)
NRA
aid
panel meet to raise recovery funds (kp
29/10/2016) [?? You're
not even able to distribute the huge amount of
money you already have at hand!!]
Dhurmus-Suntali
to hand over model settlement to quake victims
today, by Dhurba Dangal (rep 28/10/2016)
The
long
wait: People displaced by the earthquakes cannot
be left in limbo for much longer (kp
27/10/2016), PM
tells
NRA to pick up pace (kp 27/10/2016) [Yes, please take govt and
parties as example!]
Sindhuli
quake
victims yet to get grant (ht 25/10/2016), Shindhu
quake
victims wait for 2nd batch of aid, by Anish
Tiwari (kp 26/10/2016)
Dissected
development:
Post-earthquake recovery efforts need to be
consolidated for greater effectiveness, by
Sudeep Uprety (kp 25/10/2016)
Timber
crisis
affecting housing reconstruction, by Tika
Prasad Bhatta (kp 23/10/2016)
At
least
900 people in Kavre yet to receive aid for
rebuilding (kp 23/10/2016)
Slow
progress
in development works criticised (ht
21/10/2016)
Quake
victims in Valley to get first tranche before
Tihar: Ministry; Around 100,000 victims in
Valley may qualify for house reconstruction
grant: NRA, by Sangeet Sangroula (rep
20/10/2016) [And what
about the victims in the so far untouched rural
districts?], Work
begins
to release housing aid in Valley (kp
26/10/2016)
350,000
families
still without aid (kp 19/10/2016) [Besides, victims in many
districts have not been included at all!]
'Construction
materials
banks' to open in quake-hit areas, by Gyan
P. Neupane (rep 18/10/2016)
CBS
concludes
beneficiary survey in Valley, by Pushpa Raj
Acharya (ht 17/10/2016)
School
reconstruction
yet to gather pace, by Pushpa Raj Acharya
(ht 16/10/2016)
Quake
victims
yet to receive govt grant (ht 15/10/2016)
Post-quake
reconstruction:
100,000 homeless families without aid, by
Sarin Ghimire (kp 08/10/2016)
Integrated
settlement
for quake survivors: PM Dahal lays foundation
stone, by Sudip Kaini (kp 08/10/2016)
Fair
disbursement:
Govt needs to make sure quake victims can access
aid even without political connections (kp
06/10/2016), Slow
progress:
It is still not clear when the NRA will conclude
agreements with the development partners for the
financial assistance they had pledged (ht
06/10/2016), Landless
earthquake victims deprived of grants, by
Dhruba Dangal (rep 06/10/2016)
Nepal
stares
at funding gap of Rs 600 billion, by Pragati
Shahi (kp 05/10/2016), NRA
has signed up only Rs 272b so far out of 938b
needed: Less than half the signed-up amount
received, by Sangeet Sangroula (rep
05/10/2016)
NRA
gears
up to form a panel for aid management (kp
04/10/2016)
Engineers
to
distribute grant: Government has decided to
authorise engineers to distribute housing aid in
those districts which lack local bodies (kp
30/09/2016)
Cashing
in
on politics: For the moment there is only Rs 343
billion in the kitty for reconstruction, by
Shreejana Shrestha (nt 30/09/2016), Reconstruction
grant
is Dasain allowance: Earthquake survivors are
using the first tranche of their home
reconstruction grant for everything but
reconstruction, by Shreejana Shrestha (nt
30/09/2016), NRA
warns against spending reconstruction money on
Dashain (rep 01/10/2016)
Post-quake
rebuilding:
With few takers, timbers start to decay, by
Anish Tiwari (kp 30/09/2016)
NRA
fails
to provide first instalment of grant to quake
survivors (ht 29/09/2016)
Filling
the gap: In the absence of men it’s the women
who are taking up the responsibility of
rebuilding houses in rural areas, by Ishwar
Rauniyar (rep 28/09/2016)
Implementing
new
announcements: PM asks secretaries for action
plan (kp 26/09/2016), PM
not
dissatisfied with NRA, says Gyawali (ht
26/09/2016), NRA
may
decide on additional grant today, by Sarin
Ghimire (kp 26/09/2016), PM
gives
NRA until Oct 6 to issue first housing grants
(kp 27/09/2016)
Engineers
call
off strike (kp 25/09/2016)
Aid
distribution:
Over Rs18b mobilised for first tranche of cash:
NRA; Of an estimated 800,000 homes damaged in 14
districts, NRA listed 533,182 as true
beneficiaries (kp 21/09/2016), Housing
grant distribution: Local bodies told to
distribute first tranche before Dashain; he
local bodies have so far signed grant agreements
only with 450,032 of house owners (rep
22/09/2016)
Over
70
per cent quake-hit households get first
instalment (ht 19/09/2016) [But only in 11 districts and
almost one and a half year after the earthquake!],
Over
150k
needy yet to get first trance of aid (kp
20/09/2016), 25
per
cent quake victims receive grant amount in Kavre
(ht 20/09/2016)
Lack
of
relocation plan puts victims on a slippery
slope: Some families have already started
rebuilding on the same spot where their previous
houses once stood, by Pragati Shahi (kp
18/09/2016)
Call
to
use single women’s fund in rebuilding homes: The
fund, set up by the Women’s Ministry, has Rs40
million lying unused for the past three years
(kp 17/09/2016)
Victims
put off by red tape in grant distribution,
by Ramesh Khatiwada (rep 16/09/2016)
Rebuilding
aid:
Deals with households in Valley from next week;
The NRA says distribution of housing aid will
start immediately after the completion of
verification of quake-hit households (kp
15/09/2016)
Quake
victims
spend housing Aid on clothes, electronics
(kp 14/09/2016) [This
should not be generalised! Top mobiles can
hardly be financed by the small amount of
"housing aid" some of the victims have got so
far!]
Rebuilding
in
Okhaldhunga: Engineers go on strike; Engineer
Rajendra Dhamala says they have started the
protest to mount pressure on the NRA for
appointment letter and salary (kp
13/09/2016)
Earthquake
survivors
still await govt grant (ht 10/09/2016)
PM’s
extra
assistance promise hard to keep: There is a
funding gap of Rs488 billion, excluding the Rs80
billion required to provide the additional
Rs100,000 per household (kp 09/09/2016)
[Call it populist
propaganda!]
Govt
prepares
to up housing grant: PM Dahal reiterates
government’s commitment to help the
quake-affected by increasing the grant by an
additional Rs100,000 (kp 06/09/2016), Rs
50k
cannot build a house: Quake victims, by
Anish Tiwari (kp 06/09/2016)
More
than
half of listed households get rebuilding aid
(kp 04/09/2016) [one and
a half year after the earthquake some pocket
money for half of the households in a handful of
districts only!]
Inconsistent
policy:
Providing Rs. 50,000 to those whose houses were
not damaged so badly and an additional Rs.
400,000 for purchasing land at safer places on
top of Rs. 200,000 is good (ht) [Even more important would be
to include the people in all the affected rural
districts and not only a few of them including
the KTM valley!]
Quake-hit
villages of Sindhupalchowk finally start
receiving grants, by Dhurba Dangal (rep
30/08/2016)
Sindhuli
quake
victims complain against NRA (ht 29/08/2016)
Over
31 pc earthquake victims receive first tranche
(rep 29/08/2016)
Reconstruction
resource
centres scrapped (kp 18/08/2016) [??]
NRA
completes
assessment of 50,000 Valley households: The NRA
says it aims to complete assessment of all
affected households in Kathmandu Valley by
mid-September (kp 24/08/2016)
Grant
distribution
gathers pace (ht 22/08/2016)
Survey
in remaining 17 quake-hit districts only after a
month (rep 20/08/2016)
Building
back
better: Strengthen local efforts, by Valerie
Julliand (ht 19/08/2016)
PM
for increasing reconstruction grant to Rs
300,000, by Sangeet Sangroula (rep
17/08/2016)
Signing
of
housing grant agreements in limbo in Kavre
(ht 13/08/2016)
Not
the
fairest of them all: For all the expenses on
reconstruction, an investment of a few million
rupees more is worth the aesthetic value, by
Deepak Thapa (kp 11/08/2016)
Housing
aid
distribution: PM asks authorities to release
first tranche by mid-Sept (kp 11/08/2016), ‘Sindhu
survivors
to get aid in a month’ (kp 11/08/2016)
300
quake-hit
families get animal sheds (kp 06/08/2016)
Close
to
300k families sign housing aid deal (kp
05/08/2016))
Nuwakot
folk
uphold tradition while building quake-resistant
houses, by Krishna Thapa (kp 31/07/2016)
Necessity
of
culture: The impact of the earthquake cannot and
should not be measured in physical terms only,
by Umesh Pokharel (kp 31/07/2016)
Builders
of
Barpak: With electrification, Barpak is back in
business, by Manisha Aryal (nt 29/07/2016)
Engineers
decry
lack of pay and work in Dolakha: Engineers
deployed to the district say that they have been
without work and pay from the day they arrived
two months ago (kp 27/07/2016)
Speed
it up: It is over a year and still many
earthquake victims are without shelters. The
grant should be provided without delay so that
the homeless people can build permanent houses
(ht 27/07/2016)
CLPIU
gets
nod from NRA to utilise Rs 20 billion (ht
27/07/2016)
Housing
grant
distribution on hold since July 16, by
Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 26/07/2016)
Quake
victims’
data collection begins in Bhaktapur (ht
25/07/2016) [??]
NRA
gets
finance ministry’s go-ahead to spend Rs 84bn
(ht 24/07/2016)
In
northern
Dhading, elderly face daunting task of
rebuilding, by Harihar Singh Rathour (kp
20/07/2016)
Quake
victims’
data to be collected again Bhaktapur (ht
19/07/2016)
Kavre
tremor
victims get first instalment of grant amount
(ht 19/07/2016)
Post-earthquake
reconstruction:
Directive to promote local participation (kp
18/07/2016)
NRA
signs
aid agreements with 248,559 families (kp
16/07/2016)
Nearly
100,000
households claim to be excluded from NRA’s
beneficiary list (ht 14/07/2016) [not to talk about the
completely excluded districts!]
Villagers
building
quake-resilient homes in Gorkha (kp
13/07/2016)
NRA
wants
more staff to expedite rebuilding: The NRA has
so far signed housing aid agreements with
223,830 families (kp 09/07/2016)
Lengthy
grants process a big hassle for quake victims,
by Dhruba Dangal (rep 09/07/2016)
The
black
roofs of Gatlang: Once lauded as the ‘gem’ of
the Tamang Heritage Trail, Gatlang is now
scrambling to salvage what the earthquakes
ruined, by Umesh Pokharel (kp 09/07/2016)
Post-quake
reconstruction:
Banks to disburse aid to cluster settlements
(kp 08/07/2016)
Quake-hit
abandon
shelters, return to whence they came, by
Bimal Khatiwada (kp 04/07/2016)
NRA
endorses
complaint redressal guideline (ht
03/07/2016)
Donors
warn
of pulling plug on support programme: Express
serious concerns about quality of construction,
by John Narayan Parajuli (kp 30/06/2016), NRA
signs
aid deal with over 180k families (kp
30/06/2016), WB
brings
housing aid deal home to govt: Reiterates grant
in three tranches after achieving ‘defined
milestones’ (kp 01/07/2016) [?? Nobody can start
reconstruction of
sustainable
houses with 415€, not even in rural areas of
Nepal!
Even 1660€ are only an assist-starting for
families that have lost everything!],
Congress
calls
for holding talks with donors, by Sarin
Ghimire (kp 01/07/2016)
NRA
sub-regional
offices authorised for rebuilding (kp
28/06/2016)
Army
starts
handover of community homes (kp 25/06/2016)
NRA
flooded
with 73,187 complaints, by Pushpa Raj
Acharya (ht 23/06/2016)
Subsidised
credit
for rebuilding homes: Loans worth Rs 16.5m
extended as of mid-May (kp 19/06/2016)
Govt
treasury
surplus reaches all-time high: Sluggish capital
expenditure leaves over Rs 200 billion in state
coffers, by Mukul Humagain and Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 18/06/2016) [Against the background of the people's
sufferings and urgend needs, this is a
fundamental humanitarian crime for which the
irresponsible politicians and administrators
should stand trial!], House
reconstruction
programme: Guthi land dwellers could miss out on
aid; The National Reconstruction Authority has
announced to distribute house
reconstruction aid to only those quake survivors
who have land deeds (kp 18/06/2016)
NA
building
safe community homes in quake-hit areas (kp
16/06/2016)
Misplaced
charity:
NC’s criticism of government irregularities in
reconstruction needs serious attention (kp
16/06/2016)
Reconstruction
aid
list: 14,000 quake-displaced in Dolakha lodge
complaints, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp
14/06/2016)
Local
elections
must to speed up reconstruction work, say
experts (ht 14/06/2016)
2,004
beneficiaries
get housing grant (ht 13/06/2016)
The
waiting
game: At Siru Bari, a quaint hamlet in Nuwakot
ravaged by last year’s quakes, patience is
wearing thin, by Dibesh Karmacharya (kp
11/06/2016)
Over
171k
households to get first tranche of housing grant
(ht 10/06/2016), NRA
orders
release of first tranche to 171,677 victims
(rep 10/06/2016)
944
families
get rebuilding aid in Gorkha, by Sudip Kaini
(kp 07/06/2016)
NRA
signs
pact to rebuild 8,100 houses (ht 07/06/2016)
Earthquake
resilient
construction: Masons, carpenters hone skills,
by Anup Ojha (kp 05/06/2016)
NRA
fails
to include all affected households: Lawmakers
point out discrepancies in the beneficiary
survey conducted by the authority (ht
02/06/2016), NRA
survey
left out many quake victims: Lawmakers, by
Sangeet Sangroula (rep 02/06/2016)
NRA
signs
pact to distribute relief funds (kp
01/06/2016), Grant
for
victims: Besides providing the grant assistance
to the victims the NRA should also provide tents
and tarpaulins to the victims so that they
protect themselves from the rains till they
build their permanent shelters (kp
01/06/2016), Empty
VDC
secretary posts in quake districts slow grant
pay outs, by Sangeet Sangroula (rep
01/06/2016)
36,287
quake
grants inked, 1,000 victims get 1st tranche so
far, by Sangeet Sangroula (rep 30/05/2016)
NRA,
bankers’
associations agree on housing grant disbursement
(kp 28/05/2016), Distribution
of
housing grant to earthquake survivors to start
soon (ht 28/05/2016)
Post-quake
reconstruction:
Engineers idle for want of rebuilding aid
agreement (kp 27/05/2016)
Govt
directs
local bodies to take lead: Local development
officers, chief and executive officers of
municipalities and VDC secretaries of 14
districts to take lead in data collection,
identification of victims, expert coordination
and information dissemination, by Gaurav
Thapa (kp 25/05/2016) [Why
only 14 districts? Solukhumbu, for example, has
been heavily affected by the earthquakes with
many houses being uninhabitable as officially
recognised by the government!]
House
rebuilding
aid delayed in Dolakha district, by Rajendra
Manandhar (kp 18/05/2016), ‘Vulnerable
groups
at exclusion risk’ (kp 18/05/2016)
Rs
410
billion to come from donors: Besides Rs91b for
2015-16, NRA plans an additional on-budget
expenditure of Rs450b over the next three fiscal
years (kp 18/05/2016)
Rs
11b
aid for 11 districts (kp 17/05/2016)
Signing
of
grant agreement halted in Kavre villages (ht
16/05/2016)
NRA
issues
guidelines for volunteer mobilization, by
Gyan P. Neupane (rep 16/05/2016)
CPIU
releases
Rs 11bn for reconstruction purposes (ht
16/05/2016)
1,040
engineers
in quake-hit districts (kp 14/05/2016)
Post-disaster
recovery
framework: Rs 838b five-yr reconstruction plan
unveiled; ‘Private houses to be constructed
within two years’; According to the
Post-Disaster Recovery Framework, 500,000
households, 7,000 educational institutions, 446
health posts, 2,900 heritage sites were damaged
by last year’s quakes (kp 13/05/2016)
Shortage
of
forms halts aid agreement process (kp
12/05/2016)
Engineers
reach
Gorkha to help people rebuild, by Sudip
Kaini (kp 06/05/2016)
Khumbu
locals
build houses on their owns, by Kumbharaj Rai
(kp 05/05/2016)
Govt
to
form labor pool to facilitate reconstruction,
by Rudra Pangeni (rep 05/05/2016)
NRNA
asked
to build model settlement in 2 years (ht
03/05/2016)
Parties
ask
cadres to help in house reconstruction
(kp 29/04/2016) [Without
any money from reconstruction funds??]
Over
1,300
engineers deployed in 11 districts (kp
28/04/2016)
Quake
survivors
urge govt to rope in development partners,
by Pratichya Dulal (kp 28/04/2016)
Govt
in
dark about work of most aid agencies in
quake-hit districts, by Narhari Sapkota,
Nirajan Paudel, Ramesh Khatiwada and Dhruba Dangal
(rep 28/04/2016) [The
government is in the dark because it left the
suffering people alone for one year! NGOs do the
work that should have been done by government
agencies!]
Improving
the
lives of children: The year to come will be
critical as UNICEF wants to build back better
and reduce disaster risks for children, by
Karin Hulshof (kp 24/04/2016)
Building
back
better? Lack proper risk assessments of
settlements in many of the worst affected areas
are adding to vulnerability of the population,
not lessening it, by Pragati Shahi (kp
24/04/2016)
Building
better:
We should improve rehabilitation services and
build accessible infrastructures, by Phillip
Sheppard (kp 24/04/2016)
Year
of
inaction: The performance of National
Reconstruction Authority (NRA), which was
established with much fan-fare, has been
disappointing, by David Kainee (rep 23/04/2016), Virtually
no
gov’t rebuilding a year after Nepal quake,
by Binaj Gurubacharya (kp 23/04/2016), Forget
them
not: On first anniversary quake victims are
waiting for government support and donors are
frustrated, by Giri Bahadur Sunar (rep 23/04/2016), NRA
fails
to introduce PDRF on time (ht 23/04/2016), Landless
quake
victims missing out as Nepal rebuilds: Oxfam
(ht
23/04/2016), Dolakha
locals
reconstruct quake-damaged houses with
locally-available resources, by Ramesh
Khatiwada (rep 23/04/2016), 319,912
households
‘real beneficiaries’: Rebuilding authority to
start signing aid agreements from tomorrow
(kp 23/04/2016)
Loans
issued
to quake survivors in Hetauda, by Pratap
Bista (kp 22/04/2016)
Barpak
born
again: The epicentre of destruction has also
become the epicentre of reconstruction, by
Santa Gaha Magar (nt 22/04/2016)
Grant
distribution
to begin in 11 quake-hit districts, by
Sangeet Sangroula (rep 21/04/2016)
Rebuilding
works
set for expansion in 11 districts (kp
20/04/2016), Langtang
locals
unhappy with NRA, by Krishna Thapa (kp
20/04/2016)
Go
local: The NRA has proposed 17 different
residential building models for post-quake
rebuilding. Most of these models are defective,
by Keshab Sharma (rep 19/04/2016)
NRA
allows
NGOs, INGOs to extend grants to earthquake
survivors (ht 16/04/2016) [Govt and NRA are still
trying to make help for last year's earthquake
victims as complicated as possible instead of
finally distributing the international aid money
to the suffering people and hindering NGO#s to
fill the gap!!]
Housing
aid
too little, too late? Gorkha tremor survivors
say Rs 200,000 not enough to build homes, by
Sudip Kaini (kp 15/04/2016)
NRA
to
get budget of around Rs 150bn next fiscal year:
Authority unlikely to introduce post-disaster
recovery framework for reconstruction within
April 24 deadline, by Rupak D. Sharma (ht
14/04/2016)
2,400
engineers
in all districts soon (kp 14/04/2016)
Central
bank’s
loan scheme for quake survivors falls flat,
by Bibek Subedi (kp 14/04/2016)
NRA
to
allow NGOs in rebuilding homes: Extra rules for
mobilisation via one door; 3-side deal for
reconstruction, by Bhadra Sharma (kp
11/04/2016), NRA
guideline
on mobilisation of NGOs in offing (ht
12/04/2016)
Reconstruction
authority
begins work in Kavre (ht 11/04/2016)
NRA:
Grant
distribution through banks difficult in remote
areas, by Sangeet Sangroula (rep 07/04/2016)
NRA
eschews
its decision on aid distribution (kp
04/04/2016)
NRA
extends
first instalment of grant (ht 02/04/2016)
Post-quake
reconstruction:
Over half a million damaged houses surveyed so
far, by Bhadra Sharma (kp 01/04/2016), Re-verification
delays
timber distribution (kp 01/04/2016)
Ensure
HR
during post-quake recovery’ (kp 30/03/2016),
Rights-based
reconstruction:
The National Reconstruction Authority should
treat the earthquake victims as rights holders
and empower them, by Madhab Regmi (kp 30/03/2016), PM
censures
NRA, and by extension, own govt: NC leader Mahat
accuses government of viewing reconstruction
through partisan lense, by Bhadra Sharma (kp 30/03/2016) [Oli
forgot to mention himself and the other
so-called leaders as the most responsible
persons!!], Markhu
survivors
take out loans for rebuilding, by Pratap
Bista (kp 30/03/2016)
Ruined
reconstruction:
Works held hostage by disputes, red tape, by
Bhadra Sharma (kp 28/03/2016)
10
more
rebuilding resource centres to be established
(kp 27/03/2016)
Pace
of
post-quake reconstruction too slow, say German
MPs (ht 27/03/2016)
NRA
issues
rebuilding funds to ministries, by Bhadra
Sharma (kp 26/03/2016)
Slow
pace
of aid signing irks NRA (kp 25/03/2016)
First
office
set up outside Capital (kp 24/03/2016), NRA’s
first
sub-regional office opens (ht 24/03/2016)
Uphill
task
for NRA: to put together team: Some argue
mobilising civil servants will be easier than
hiring new staff, by Bhadra Sharma (kp
23/03/2016)
Reconstruction
and
its elusive grand narrative: The government has
boxed itself into an impossible situation of
trying to control everything, something it
doesn’t have the required resources or
capabilities to do, by John Narayan Parajuli
(kp 19/03/2016)
More
problems
likely to rain down on quake survivors this
monsoon: NRA mulling ‘transitional shelters’ as
rebuilding work fails to take off, by Bhadra
Sharma (kp 18/03/2016), Complaints
outnumber
aid deals (kp 18/03/2016)
78
Singati
families receive letters for housing grant,
by Rajendra Manandhar (kp 15/03/2016) [??]
Plan
distributed
substandard zinc sheets: Quake victims, by
Ramesh Khatiwada (rep 15/03/2016)
First
grants
to be issued from Singati centre: Two banks
are scheduled to sign grant contracts with
displaced families today, by Bhadra Sharma
(kp 13/03/2016) [Please
not mere show but effective relief and
reconstruction aid for quake effected families
without further delay!!], Banks
find
few takers for loans to rebuild quake-hit
houses: Bankers attribute the low demand
for the credit to ‘complicated procedure’
(kp 13/03/2016), Housing
aid
distribution from Singati deferred: Leaders of
some parties demand cash for all at once (kp
14/03/2016), Local
protests
mar quake grant distribution: NRA accused of
mobilizing NGOs only, bypassing local leaders,
by Sangeet Sangroula (rep 14/03/2016)
Deconstruction
authority:
The government should stop trying to be a
control freak, and open up the space for
earthquake survivors to easily rebuild their
homes (nt 11/03/2016)
Quake
victims
rebuilding on their own worry about
reconstruction grant, by Narhari Sapkota
(rep 11/03/2016)
Rules
in
place to supply timber for quake-hit (kp
11/03/2016) [11 months
after the earthquake!!], No
relief:
2.5 million earthquake survivors have waited one
year for help while the Reconstruction Authority
discusses procedures and guidelines, by
Sahina Shrestha (nt 11/03/2016)
Agreements
on
housing reconstruction signed (ht
11/03/2016)
Talk
of
quick survey for aid hollow: House assessment
aimed to be completed by mid-April but, as of
yesterday, only 46 percent work over: NRA,
by Bhadra Sharma (kp 10/03/2016), Call
to
involve women in rebuilding process (kp
10/03/2016), Ensure
safety
before rebuilding: Singati folk, by Rajendra
Manandhar (kp 10/03/2016)
Earthquake
victims:
Banks seek permission to disburse grants, by
Bibek Subedi (kp 09/03/2016)
With
will
and strong backs, a quake-hit village rebuilds
without waiting for govt: What kept them from
giving up was a decision that the village has
capacity to recover (ht 09/03/2016)
NRA
shifts
goalpost as victims wait: While the Post
Disaster Needs Assessment has put the
number of earthquake-affected houses at
498,852, the Nepal Reconstruction Authority has
surveyed only 150,000 households so far, by
Bhadra Sharma (kp 07/03/2016), NAR
to
distribute first installment of grant: The
authority will soon provide 25pc of total amount
to quake-affected households (ht 07/03/2016)
[???], Homes
for
earthquake victims unlikely before monsoon: NRA
(kp 08/03/2016), Reconstruction
body
preparing framework (kp 09/03/2016)
1,300
get
accounts as NRA gears up for rebuilding aid:
Cash distribution to be delayed due to NC
convention (kp 04/03/2016)
Earthquake
Response:
One-Door Policy and Multi-Door Expectations,
by Prabin Manandhar (sp 04/03/2016)
Govt
mandates
NRA to disburse rebuilding aid: Families
rendered homeless will get Rs
200,000 each and house loan of up to Rs
2.5 million (kp 03/03/2016)
NRA
fails
to set up regional offices: Staff shortage
blamed; Planned reconstruction from Singati,
Dolakha uncertain; No decision on hiring ,
by Bhadra Sharma (kp 01/03/2016
NRA
tightens
noose around I/NGOs: Nonprofits barred from
engaging in reconstruction work without prior
approval (rep 29/02/2016) [?? This reminds of the
government statements shortly after the
earthquakes! The affected people are still
waiting in vain!!], Victims
remain
in dark about govt reconstruction program,
by Narahari Sapkota (rep 29/02/2016)
‘Do
not
build houses without govt assistance’: The
request from the authority comes at a time when
the quake victims have begun to reconstruct
houses on their own (kp 28/02/2016) [After almost one year of
government non-action??]
NRA
starts
drafting INGO Mobilisation Directive (ht
27/02/2016)
Up
to
Rs 2.5m loan for rebuilding homes: NRA: NRA to
provide subsidised loan of up to Rs 2.5
for reubilding in cities and Rs 1.5
in rural areas (kp 26/02/2016), Reconstruction
grant
distribution to begin March 3, by Sangeet
Sangroula (rep 26/02/2016)
NRA
forms
committee to simplify process of extending
grant, loans (ht 26/02/2016)
Learning
from
others: Often the question is whether villages
should be rebuilt in their original locations or
relocated to less disaster-prone areas, by
Keshab Sharma (rep 25/02/2016)
‘Geological
study
before rebuilding’: A preliminary study
identifies 143 settlements in need of immediate
attention in 14 most affected districts, by
Pragati Shahi (kp 24/02/2016)
School
reconstruction
set to begin from Lalitpur (kp 23/02/2016)
NRA
calls
for Nepal-India mechanism: Seeks to ensure
smooth supply of construction materials during
post-quake reconstruction phase (ht
23/02/2016)
Post-quake
reconstruction:
Government to use banking channel for aid
distribution (kp 22/02/2016)
Ministry's
delay
hampers reconstruction works: NRA, by
Sangeet Sangroula (rep 22/02/2016)
Tendering
versus
conservation: Local community members have
already raised their voices to stop the
construction through tendering, by Kai Weise
(ht 20/02/2016)
Fake
earthquake
victims disrupt data collection, by Harihar
Singh Rathaur (kp 18/02/2016)
Govt
to
appoint section officers as VDC secretaries in
quake-affected districts, by Bhadra Sharma
(kp 17/02/2016)
Chand-led
Maoists
hinder data collection of quake victims in Kavre
(ht 16/02/2016)
Language
barrier
causing hassles in quake data collection, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 15/02/2016)
A
time to rebuild: Evidence from the past quakes
clearly indicates that one of the major causes
of building damage is foundational failure,
by Rakam Lama Tamang (kp 14/02/2016)
Reconstruction
drive:
Government signs aid accords worth Rs90b, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 11/02/2016)
The
Opportunity
of Building Back Better: There is a huge need to
rebuild houses since more than 800,000 homes
were completely destroyed or damaged in the
affected districts, by Prabin Manandhar (sp
06/02/2016)
Reconstruction
body
to fast-track buying: Contracts up to Rs 500m to
be handled at NRA level (kp 05/02/2016))
Regulator
mess
hampers I/NGOs’ quake rehab bi: Minister
Mainali’s cadres have padlocked Social Welfare
Council member secy’s office while incum-bent
has been recalled (kp 31/01/2016) [??]
PM
visits
integrated model settlement in Kavre: Says
reconstruction of damaged infrastructure would
be carried out in three phases (ht
31/01/2016)
All
eyes
on the NRA: The Reconstruction Authority has
slid back into oblivion after the CEO’s
appointment, by Bhoj Raj Poudel (kp
29/01/2016)
Reconstruction
authority
working at snail’s pace: NRA struggles to
recruit staff members even after one month,
by Sangeet Sangroula (rep 25/01/2016)
Post
quake
reconstruction: Govt to deploy more engineers;
450 professionals to assess damage in 11
districts (kp 24/01/2016), Govt
deploys
21 staffers at NRA: The reconstruction authority
sets a target of officially beginning work in
all earthquake-hit villages by April 25 (kp
25/01/2016)
No
clue
for staff supply at NRA (kp 22/01/2016)
Response
Architecture, by Prabin Manandhar (sp
22/01/2016)
Govt
aid
may be too little, too late for earthquake
survivors, by Pragati Shahi (kp 19/01/2016)
Senior
govt
officials reluctant to join NRA; Factors:
Working with ‘untested’ boss, career concerns
(kp 18/01/2016)
NRA
entrusts
NGO to recruit 3,000 engineers for damage survey,
by Sangeet Sangroula (rep 18/01/2016)
Build
back
better: Govts have moral obligation and social
responsibility to protect civilians during
natural disasters, by Sumesh Shiwakoty (kp
18/01/2016)
Rebuilding
campaign
set to kick-start today: Actual work will begin
on April 24, on the eve of the first anniversary
of the quake (kp 16/01/2016), Reconstruction
has
begun, by Sushil Gyawali (kp 16/01/2016), Much-delayed
rebuilding
campaign inaugurated: NRA aims to start building
ravaged homes from April 24, on the eve of quake
anniversary, by Bhadra Sharma (kp
17/01/2016), Reconstruction
mega
campaign kicks off, by Pushpa Raj Acharya
(ht 17/01/2016), Bad
beginning:
Starting symbolic reconstruction from Kathmandu
makes govt look myopic (kp 18/01/2016), Delayed
campaign:
The quake victims will have to spendyet another
rainy season in makeshift shelters already
damaged by the previous monsoon and the snowfall
in Gorkha district (ht 18/01/2016)
Citizen
initiative
for reconstruction: The project is expected to
help locals rebuild 82 houses in the area that
would have a local touch, including the ancient
architecture, with modern infrastructure (kp
15/01/2016)
Nepal
earthquake
reconstruction to take years, NAR chief says
(ht 15/01/2016)
Victims
clueless
about resilient homes: Say they don’t understand
house designs described in English; UNDP
launches awareness drive in coordination with
govt, by Lekhanath Pandey (ht 15/01/2016)
Timber
distribution:
Government decision delay pegs back rebuilding
works (kp 15/01/2016)
Standards
for
construction materials yet to be finalised
(ht 15/01/2016)
Locals
come
together to rebuild Pilachhen in Lalitpur
(ht 15/01/2016)
Reconstruction
body
unveils action plan (kp 14/01/2016), NAR
unveils
four-phase reconstruction plan (ht
14/01/2016), Crude
measure:
Govt’s call to channel reconstruction aid
through it lacks public legitimacy (kp
14/01/2016)
NRA
endorses
two-tier structure for rebuilding (kp
13/01/2016)
Monasteries
denied
rebuilding funds, by Anup Ojha (kp
12/01/2016)
NAR
to
open 7 sub-regional offices (ht 12/01/2016)
House
panel
asks govt to disclose post-quake reconstruction
plans (ht 11/01/2016)
Post-quake
reconstruction:
Survivors likely to get grant for rebuilding
only after April (kp 11/01/2016), Reconstruction
to
begin only after mid-April: National action plan
for reconstruction not possible without detailed
assessment: Gyewali, by Sangeet Sangroula
(rep 11/01/2016)
Experts:
Engineers
should be responsible, by Gaurav Thapa (kp
11/01/2016)
Rebuilding
on
drawing board amid staff lack, by Bhadra
Sharma (kp 09/01/2016)
Post-quake
reconstruction:
‘Lack of workforce a challenge’, by Prahlad
Rijal (kp 09/01/2016)
NRA
to
lay foundations for one house, one heritage site
on quake safety day (kp 08/01/2016)
Post-quake
reconstruction:
Distribution of grant only after getting ‘exact
details’ (kp 07/01/2016)
A
harder road ahead: Avoiding irregularities and
misuse of funds will be a herculean task for the
Reconstruction Authority, by Bhadra Sharma
(kp 05/01/2016)
Show
and
tell: Reconstruction Authority needs to show
courage, and automony from political parties
(kp 04/01/2016)
Home-grown
human
resource to rebuild damaged structures: PM
(kp 03/01/2016)
CBS
to
hold census in tremor-hit areas: Move will make
it easy for govt to distribute relief, carry out
rebuilding (kp 02/01/2016), Electronic
data
recording begins, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp
02/01/2016)
Authority
to
reconstruct: The Reconstruction Authority
finally has a chief, but now there is no money
for helicopters, by Om Astha Rai (nt
01/01/2015)
Food
for
work programme: Quake survivors rebuilding
villages, by Harihar Singh Rathaur (kp
31/12/2015)
NRA
to
announce programmes in mid-January: Authority
CEO Gyawali said that reconstruction programmes
would be made public on National Earthquake
Safety Day (kp 30/12/2015)
Sushil
Gyawali
named NRA chief, by Bhadra Sharma (kp
26/12/2015)
Reconstruction
Bill
passed unopposed: Decks cleared for the
formation of the National Reconstruction
Authority almost eight months after the April 25
earthquake, by Binod Ghimire (kp
17/12/2015), Guidelines
on
aid to earthquake victims: Govt to provide Rs
200k to half a million families (kp 17/12/2015), Quake-displaced
in
Palpa building houses on their own (kp
17/12/2015), Reconstruction
bill
endorsed (ht 21/12/2015)
Quake-affected
in
Sankhu may be denied subsidy (kp 11/12/2015)
Lack
of
fuel, materials halts construction (kp
28/11/2015)
NC,
UML
fight over CEO post: Govt has not begun
reconstruction works seven months after the
devastating quake, by Binod Ghimire (kp
25/11/2015), Reconstruction
bill
stuck with House panel: CEO appointment a
sticking point with both main opposition and
CPN-UML, by Prakash Acharya (ht 25/11/2015) [Isn't
there any law expert who can file a law case
against these criminal and irresponsible
politicians who play with the life and future of
the Nepali citizens??], Displaced
families
brace for cold winter, by Prahlad Rijal (kp 25/11/2015), Communication
with
disaster affected: Humanitarian response, by
Surendra Pokharel (ht 25/11/2015), EU
urges
govt to speed up rebuilding efforts (kp 25/11/2015), Online
Fund-Raising: An Experience, by Hira Bahadur
Thapa (rn 25/11/2015)
Formation
of
reconstruction authority: Bill likely to enter
Parliament through voting; Parties miss
consensus deadline; NC insists Govind Pokhrel
should helm the reconstruction body, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 22/11/2015) [Only power games count, not the suffering
of the peoples! Throw these politicians into the
dustbin!], Need
of
the hour: Reconstruction is on hold thanks to
political parties’ partisan interests (kp
24/11/2015)
NPC
given
task of post-quake reconstruction and relief
work (ht 20/11/2015), Planning
commission
initiates process to kick-start reconstruction
works (ht 24/11/2015)
Rebuilding
rural
Nepal: Lessons for improvement, by Dipendra
Gautam (ht 20/11/2015)
Owners
use
green technology to rebuild quake-damaged brick
kilns, by Pragati Shahi (kp 19/11/2015)
Women
seek
role in reconstruction body (kp 19/11/2015),
Women
demand
‘meaningful’ role in reconstruction campaign
(ht 19/11/2015)
NC
to
press govt to pass reconstruction bill at
earliest (ht 17/11/2015) [It should have been passed
already five months ago when the NC was heading
the government!!]
Earthquake
displaced
unable to build without new building code,
by Pratichya Dulal (kp 17/11/2015)
Development
projects
benefit quake survivors, by Prakash Adhikari
(kp 16/11/2015)
‘Bring
all
oppn parties on board’ (ht 09/11/2015), Govt
action
plan gathers dust: Absence of NRA and
coordination among ministries are main reasons
behind delay; It is already one month since the
action plan for releasing grant assistance was
endorsed by the Cabinet, by Gaurav Thapa (kp 09/11/2015), Dispute
puts
formation of recon body in doubt (kp 09/11/2015) [To
hell with all these incompetent politicians!!], NC
demands
consensus on reconstruction bill (ht 09/11/2015)
Previous
appointments
to Reconstruction Authority likely to end,
by Ashok Dahal (rep 07/11/2015)
Reconstruction
Bill
at House likely on Sunday (kp 06/11/2015)
Ministries
told
to speed up reconstruction efforts (kp
05/11/2015)
Reconstruction
policy
in limbo sans NRA, by Gaurav Thapa (kp
01/11/2015)
Six
months
after quake: Displaced brace for harsh winter
(kp 31/10/2015), Nowhere
to
go: It’s six months since the April 25
earthquake, and many victims are still living in
camps, by Pratibha Tuladhar (kp 31/10/2015), ‘Reinstate
NRA
to expedite recovery efforts’ (ht 31/10/2015)
Rebuilding
Authority
Bill in limbo (kp 30/10/2015), A
race against winter: The Indian blockade has
impeded reconstruction and humanitarian efforts
to protect earthquake survivors before winter
sets in, by Om Astha Rai (nt 30/10/2015) [Not
to forget the inactivity of the govt!]
Winter
is
coming: The Oli govt needs to prioritise the
pending reconstruction work (kp 28/10/2015)
Political
turmoil
clouds post-quake reconstruction works: In the
absence of the National Reconstruction Authority
the works have ground to a halt (kp
25/10/2015), Nepal
earthquakes
leave bitter legacy as children become quarry
for traffickers (ht 25/10/2015), Nepal
earthquake
continues to drive aftershocks through the lives
of women (ht 25/10/2015)
Earthquake-hit
to
build model houses, by Aash Gurung (kp
19/19/29015)
Donor
agencies
to rebuild over 250 health facilities, by
Arjun Poudel (rep 15/10/2015)
Housekeeping
first:
PM KP Oli must revive the Reconstruction
Authority to jumpstart rebuilding and
redevelopment, by Shesh Ghale (kp
15/10/2015)
UK
concerned
over delay in reconstruction (kp 14/10/2015)
NRNA
to
rebuild 1,000 homes for quake victims within two
years (ht 13/10/2015) [And what is the government doing with the
4.4 billion dollars from donor nations??]
Help
from
abroad: Non-Resident Nepalis can provide much
needed resources and expertise to rebuild Nepal,
by Ratan K. Jha (kp 12/10/2015)
That
elusive
subsidy: Questions every earthquake-affected
family will now ask is why the enumeration once
again, by Weena Pun (kp 10/10/2015)
Quake-affected
families
await rebuilding plan (kp 07/10/2015), From
frying
pan into firePassing Reconstruction Bill could
give much-needed push to economy (kp
07/10/2015)
Tale
of
two quakes The delay in passing the
reconstruction bill shows that our leaders are
not serious about rebuilding Nepal, by
Gyanendra Gurung (kp 05/10/2015)
Reconstruction
materials:
Reuse the rubble, by Dipendra Gautam (ht
01/10/2015)
INGOs
call
for revival of reconstruction authority (ht
01/10/2015)
Shelters
to
houses, by Weena Pun (kp 26/09/2015)
100
community
infrastructures reconstructed (ht
25/09/2015)
Langtang
rising:
A strong sense of community and help from
outside assists survivors to rebuild their homes
and lives, by Upasana Khadka (kp 25/09/2015)
[And what about the
responsiblity of the central government?]
IDPG:
Finalise
reconstruction authority bill (kp
24/09/2015)
Time
to
rebuild: The government should train masons,
electricians and plumbers on sustainable
building techniques, by Rabin Bastola (kp
23/09/2015)
The
devastating
earthquake: Reconstructing Kathmandu, by
Niranjan Mani Dixit (ht 23/09/2015)
Material
benefits:
Use of locally available resources in the
reconstruction process will help revive the
rural economy, by Indra Adhikari and Uddhab
Pyakurel (kp 22/09/2015)
A
fresh start: The government’s plan to train
50,000 youths for construction in quake-affected
districts is a challenging task, by Rommel
J. Pun (kp 18/09/2015)
Pilot
project
on integrated settlement soon, by Rupak D.
Sharma (ht 17/09/2015)
New
Bill
tabled to give legitimacy: Bill gives validity
to works done by previous ordinance, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 16/09/2015), New
Reconstruction
Authority bill tabled (ht 16/09/2015), Reconstruction
plan
in disarray: Instead of passing the Bill, the
House sent it to the Good Governance Committee
for discussion, by< Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 20/09/2015))
Reconstruction
With Equity, by Gyan Basnet (rn 15/09/2015),
Equitable
reconstruction:
Quantum shift in governance, by Gyan Basnet
(ht 17/09/2015)
Works
under
now-expired ordinance validated, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 10/09/2015)
Big
3
set to table new Bill on Reconstruction body,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 09/09/2015), Post
earthquake
reconstruction: Experts criticise govt
rebuilding approach (kp 09/09/2015)
Rebuilding
Nepal:
The Open University Initiative (OUI) aims to
take education opportunities to the grassroots
communities, by Raju Adhikari, Pramod
Dhakal, Drona Rasali and Ambika Adhikari (rep
09/09/2015)
Wrangling
over
Reconstruction Authority returns: Maoists want
bill revised, by Ashok Dahal (rep
08/09/2015)
‘Govt
should
rebuild heritage’, by Gaurav Thapa (kp
05/09/2015)
Govt
plans
new mechanism for reconstruction, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 05/09/2015)
Deconstructing
reconstruction:
Rebuilding destroyed homes has been
unnecessarily delayed by lack of money, masons
and clear government policy, by Sahina
Shrestha (nt 04/09/2015), How
politics
blocks relief: Will the survivors of the
earthquake suffer the same fate as the victims
of the Jure landslide who are still waiting for
compensation and relocation?, by Yuvaraj
Puri (nt 04/09/2015)
Rebuilding
authority
remains ‘suspended’, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 03/09/2015), NC,
UML
at odds over validating Reconstruction Authority
(kp 04/09/2015), Dead
and
buried: Dissolution of Reconstruction Authority
reveals govt’s disregard of quake victims
(kp 04/09/2015) [!!],
New
Bill
on reconstruction soon: Govinda Pokhrel ro
continue as Chief Executive Officer of Authority
(ht 04/09/2015), Reconstruction
body
in limbo as ordinance expires, by Sangeet
Dangroula (rep 04/09/2015)
KMC,
NSET
sign MoU for post-quake reconstruction (ht
29/08/2015)
Build
back
safer: A proven documentary to inspire
earthquake-resistant construction for Nepal,
by Aparajita Acharya (nt 28/08/2015)
Reconstruction
Authority
begins work: Selects Pilachhein to implement
urban renewal project, by Rupak D. Sharma
(ht 26/08/2015), Quake
reconstruction
to cover 31 districts (rep 26/08/2015), Time
to
act fast (ht 27/08/2015), Post-disaster
reconstruction:
Listen to the affected, by Sangram S. Lama
Tamang (ht 27/08/2015)
‘Quake
masons
up for rebuilding’ (kp 26/08/2015)
Ministries
cagey
about PM relief fund spending, by Rajan
Pokhrel (ht 25/08/2015)
Dreams
to
rebuild: Concerned authorities should listen to
the modest proposals of Nepali architects,
by Abhi Subedi (kp 23/08/2015)
Spending
aid:
The quality of reconstruction projects should
not be compromised in the name of fast-tracking
the process, by Tilakman Singh Bhandari (kp
21/08/2015)
Tragedy
and
farce: Nepal’s slow reconstruction process is an
indication of its failure to learn from history,
by Bhoj Raj Poudel (kp 20/08/2015)
Quake
relief
distributed against guidelines in
Kavrepalanchowk, by Madhusudhan Guragain
(rep 17/08/2015)
Suggestions
for
the NRA: Although the NRA has been set up,
reliability and the management of reconstruction
tasks are exigent, by Pramesh KC (kp
16/08/2015)
Pokhrel
CEO
of National Reconstruction Authority (ht
14/08/2015), The
authority
to rebuild: Do we have the political will to
save time and money to fuse the long-pending
Disaster Management Authority with the
Reconstruction Authority? (nt 14/08/2015), Better
build
back: Nepal’s post-earthquake rehabilitation now
hinges on the formation of a credible and
independent Reconstruction Authority, by
Sonia Awale (nt 14/08/2015), Development
partners
optimistic: Appointment of Reconstruction
Authority CEO fuels hope for momentum, by
Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 15/08/2015), Good
move:
Govinda Pokhrel is a sound choice to lead the
Reconstruction Authority (kp 17/08/2015)
75
pc
discount for rebuilding completely damaged
structures’ (ht 09/08/2015)
Rebuilding
policy (ht 07/08/2015)
After
chief
secy, hunt intensifies for NRA CEO (kp
06/08/2015)
NPC
frames
draft of reconstruction policy, by Rupak D.
Sharma (ht 06/08/2015)
NVP
launches
reconstruction network, lauds volunteerism
(ht 02/08/2015)
Post
quake
reconstruction: Dwellings planned for congested
areas, by Gaurav Thapa (kp 23/07/2015)
Development
budget
freezes after quake (ht 21/07/2015)
Post-quake
recovery:
Experts focus on resilient livelihoods (kp
18/07/2015)
Parallel
circuits:
As we rebuild homes, can we dismantle gender
norms?, by Weena Pun (kp 18/07/2015)
Rebuilding
quake-hit
economy: Finance Minister has to balance two
crucial tasks: Reconstruction of damaged
infrastructure and boosting GDP growth, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 10/07/2015)
Disaster-hit
people:
Right to live with dignity, by Amrit Prasad
Sharma (ht 08/07/2015)
Putting
people
first: Nepal needs to take cue from Haiti and
involve locals to make reconstruction efforts
effective, by Radha Paudel (kp 07/07/2015)
NPC
sees
huge growth prospect in rebuilding, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 07/07/2015)
From
relief
to reconstruction, by Apoorva Lal (kp
04/07/2015)
Govt
seeks
constructive role of pvt sector, by Pushpa Raj
Acharya (ht 04/07/2015)
Ramblings
on reconstruction, by Kai Weise (ht
04/07/2015)
Post-quake
Reconstruction: An Exigent Task Ahead, by
Uttam Maharjan (rn 02/07/2015)
Building
it
right: It is time we considered geological factors
like liquefaction while carrying out any
construction activity, by Rakam Lama Tamang
(kp 01/07/2015)
Miles
to
go: While more funds are necessary for
reconstruction, utilisation of resources looks to
be a greater challenge, by Som P. Pudasaini
(kp 30/06/2015)
Reconstruction
and
rehabilitation: If all pledged aid comes, govt
need not use its funds, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 29/06/2015)
Going
against
the current: To avoid the disastrous consequences
of earthquakes, we must promote sustainable
development practices, by Yuba Raj Guragain
(kp 28/06/2015)
Unpaid
armies:
Nepal has the chance to make volunteerism more
effective and accommodating, by Simone
Galimberti (kp 21/06/2015), Caribbean
lessons:
Now is the time for Nepal to capitalise on its
citizens skilled in urban planning and civil
engineering, by Junu Shrestha (kp
21/06/2015), Building
back:
Reconstruction demands serious study of the
factors that led to collapse of buildings during
the quake, by Pramod Neupane (kp 21/06/2015)
Earthquake
could
jeopardise millennium health goals: MoHP;
Programmes for safe motherhood, child and neonatal
health could be affected, states MoHP study
(kp 17/06/2015)
Temblors
upset
bid to graduate from LDC (kp 19/05/2015), Graduation
from
LDC status by 2022 becomes an even more distant
goal (ht), FinMin
warns
quakes could reverse gains (kp 19/05/2015) |