More than 100,000 volunteers prepared for disaster management

The government of Nepal has readied 100,446 volunteers in federation, provinces and local levels for disaster preparedness, management, search, rescue, relief and rehabilitation.

In today’s meeting of the Delegated Management and Government Assurance Committee, Home Secretary Dinesh Bhattarai shared that Volunteer Management Information System has also been developed to identity and mobilize volunteers along with increasing participation of local communities.

He mentioned, “Arrangement of necessary resources has been made for the capacity building of bodies involved in disaster management in order to make rescue and relief to disaster affected people effective.”
Bhattarai further said specification has been prepared for multi-purpose firefighting and modern fire brigade in all provinces for disaster rescue and management, stating that arrangement of a multi-seater ambulance and 100 fire pumps have been made in each province for disaster reduction.

Committee President Maya Prasad Sharma said although there was no problem in rescue in earthquake-hit Jajarkot district, construction of houses has been delayed.

He urged the concerned Ministry to construct the houses for earthquake-affected people soon as new mothers and senior citizens living under tarpaulin have been losing their lives due to cold.

Similarly, Committee members Madan Kumari Shah and Narpati Luhar opined that disaster victims are deprived of getting relief in lack of laws.