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Damage put at Rs 200 billion, hydropower losses still being counted
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Physical Infrastructure Minister Sunil Lamsal said damage to roads and bridges is around Rs 200 billion. He called it preliminary information.
That figure does not include energy infrastructure. Energy Minister Biraj Bhakta Shrestha has ordered an immediate assessment of hydropower damage. In Rasuwa, 8 projects have been hit, 5 of them operational with a combined 236 megawatts, and 3 still under construction with a combined 342 megawatts. Nuwakot has lost access to 6 more projects, 4 operational at 123 megawatts and 2 under construction at 53 megawatts.
Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading and Chitwan are still being surveyed for road and building damage, so the Rs 200 billion figure is expected to rise.
The government has released Rs 1 billion to the disaster relief fund, plus Rs 10 million each to Rasuwa and Nuwakot and Rs 5 million to Dhading. The World Bank has separately offered up to Rs 25 billion in emergency assistance, its Nepal country director told the finance ministry. That is aid, not a damage estimate.
Insurers say claims will take weeks to settle because most of the damaged sites cannot be reached by road.
The Prime Minister's Disaster Relief Fund took in Rs 273.3 million in donations in its first six hours, the finance ministry says, led by a Rs 100 million gift from Gorkha Brewery. That is public donations, separate from the Rs 1 billion the government has already released for relief.
UNICEF says at least 17,000 children have been affected across Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading. It counts 18 schools destroyed and 20 more damaged in those three districts, wider than the 8 schools Onlinekhabar had reported damaged in Rasuwa and Nuwakot alone a day earlier. UNICEF says around 10,000 school-age children now need help such as temporary classrooms and replacement books to keep learning.