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Rs 40 million allocated for protection of Melamchi flood-ravaged area

SINDHUPALCHOWK, March 9: Bagmati Province Ministry of Economic Affairs and Planning has earmarked a budget of Rs 40 million for the protection of Melamchi and Indrawati flood-affected areas.
By Republica

SINDHUPALCHOWK, March 9: Bagmati Province Ministry of Economic Affairs and Planning has earmarked a budget of Rs 40 million for the protection of Melamchi and Indrawati flood-affected areas.


The provincial ministry has approved 31 plans with a budget amounting to Rs 4 million in the first phase under the Soil and Watershed Conservation Program. Though the ministry has appropriated a budget for 31 plans from Panchpokhari, Helambu to Dhandkhola. Another budget of Rs 70 million will be approved and implemented in the current fiscal year 2078/79 BS, said province minister Yubaraj Dulal.


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The provincial government allocated the budget for the conservation of the flood-ravaged areas at the initiative of Province Assembly member Dulal. The flooding in the Melamchi and Indrawati Rivers this year had ravaged human settlements in Sindhupalchowk. 


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