Missing deadline

The much-awaited Melamchi Drinking Water Project is unlikely to meet its latest deadline of supplying water to the Kathmandu Valley by mid-October this year.

Price of priceless water: Explore market

Interestingly, our ‘real’ spring water must also have better ‘spring water quality’. National policy makers and entrepreneurs should manage and explore the highly concentrated Kathmandu-based so-called water processors to move ahead.

-HARIHAR GURAGAIN

‘I’ll focus on completing all physical structures in next four years’

The government recently appointed Govinda Raj Pokharel as Chief Executive Officer of National Reconstruction Authority — the prime minister-led body to coordinate post-earthquake reconstruction works with implementing agencies under various ministries and development partners. It has been nearly two years since the devastating earthquake of April 25, 2015, however, individual houses damaged by the earthquake are yet to be built. The government has distributed the first instalment of reconstruction aid worth Rs 50,000 each to 505,272 households or 81 per cent of the total beneficiary households in 14 severely affected districts. Reconstruction of other earthquake ravaged public structures — schools, health posts, government buildings, drinking water supply projects, roads, bridges and heritage sites — is yet to gather pace. Pushpa Raj Acharya of The Himalayan Times caught up with Pokharel to learn what the authority is doing to accelerate post earthquake reconstruction works. Excerpts:

महिनावारी शारीरिक प्रक्रिया कि पाप ?

लक्ष्मी भण्डारी थापा