Most of the designs have been prepared by the Department of Urban Development and Building Construction and some NGOs.
According to officials, these houses will use locally available raw materials like mud, stones and wood.Kishor Thapa, advisor to National Planning Commission (NPC) for urban planning and settlement development, said houses to be built in rural areas will have maximum of two stories. "The feature of these houses is that their walls are tied with beams or wooden poles. Similarly, their roofs and walls are fixed in such a way that they won't part easily," Thapa said.
Most of the damaged houses in rural areas had weak binding between walls and wooden poles.
These new designs can withstand earthquake of up to 8.4 Richter scale.
The government also plans to train around 30,000 masons and carpenters and deploy them to build earthquake resilient homes. "They will supervise local technicians and will also prepare skilled hands in rural areas," said Thapa.
All these restructuring plans will be part of earthquake recovery strategic plan that NPC is preparing. It also includes programs for rebuilding settlement and restructuring of rural settlements.
The plan, among others, is to encourage middle and lower class families to join house-pooling program. According to officials, house-pooling concept will be more relevant in settlements like Idrachowk where it is impossible to build individual houses.
"A person with 1 or 2 ana of land build individual house. But people can jointly build houses on their land plots and share infrastructures like stairs and lobbies," Thapa said, some locals have already showed interested to join house-pooling.
NPC is also mulling over allowing people to build multi-storied building in business centers. But such buildings should be earthquake-resilient and owners must conduct geological tests before starting construction, officials said.
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