The 53rd annual report made public by the Office of the Auditor General on Monday showed that there was no uniformity in the number of earthquake victims receiving the relief amount of Rs 15,000 and the victims receiving warm clothes distributed by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA).The MoHA data shows that it distributed Rs 15,000 each as a relief amount to 421,485 quake victim families whose houses were completely damaged by the earthquake but when it came to distributing warm clothes, the ministry's record shows that it distributed the clothes to 4,42,719 victim families. There is no uniformity in the number of the victims, according to the report.
Similarly, the home ministry says that there are 467,510 households in Dhading, Rasuwa, Sindhupalchowk, Kavrepalanchowk, Dolakha and Ramechhap districts though the 2011 census showed only 379,850 households in the districts. A report submitted by a technical team of the District Administration Office of Sindhupalchowk showed 9, 459 quake-affected families in 10 village development committees of the district. The figure was 1,245 more than the actual number of families in the 10 VDCs and the ministry made an additional Rs 18.7 million expense in the name of distributing Rs 15,000 to the quake victims for building temporary shelters, reads the report.
The District Disaster Management Fund of the 10 quake-affected districts released Rs 3.08 billion to the village development committees (VDCs) for the distribution of the relief amount Rs 15,000. But even as now, none of the VDCs have submitted expenditure details to the concerned authority, according to the report.
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