Safe housing planned for 9000 families in Karnali

Kathmandu - Safe houses are to be built for around 9,000 families in Karnali in the current fiscal year. The Safe People’s Housing Programme is covering the households under poverty line and those rendered homeless due to natural disasters such as floods and landslides. As part of the programme, Surkhet will have the highest number of 2,643 safe houses while Rukum-West will have 1,199, Salyan 1,691, Dailekh 1,789, Jajarkot 1,015, Dolpa 512 and Jumla 506.

The State government will provide assistance to replace the thatched roofs of the houses with the corrugated zinc sheets. Each house will receive Rs 50,000 for replacing the thatched roof. In this connection, the Federal Urban Project Implementation Unit has finalized the houses to be built in Surkhet Constituency-1. As many as 1,520 roofs will be replaced with corrugated zinc in the area.