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Covid-19 Immunisation to Be Halted As Vaccine Flow Stops WITHOUT F EAR OR FAVOUR Nepal’s largest selling English daily Vol XXIX No. 28 | 10 pages | Rs.5 O O Printed simultaneously in Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Bharatpur and Nepalgunj 33.6 C 1.6 C Thursday, March 18, 2021 | 05-12-2077 Janakpur Jumla POST PHOTO: DIPENDRA ROKKA Farmers weed their wheat crop at Guri in this panorama of Changunarayan captured in Bhaktapur. With neither side Covid-19 immunisation to be halted as vaccine flow stops ready to back down, confrontation in Existing stock will be used for the second dose to be given from April 20. Government should approach other manufacturers too, experts suggest. ARJUN POUDEL schedule to administer vaccines to Earlier, officials at the Health Serum Institute of India; and 348,000 chief specialist at the Health Ministry, KATHMANDU, MARCH 17 those who have not taken it so far,” an Ministry were considering adminis- doses under the COVAX facility. all of the existing stock of over 700,000 UML continues official at the Health Ministry told the tering the vaccine in stock to those So far, over 1,644,000 have been doses and the 1 million doses due to be With the government’s failure to pro- Post, asking not to be named. “We above 60. immunised in the first and second delivered by the Serum Institute of cure enough Covid-19 vaccines to need to secure the second dose for The ministry said there are around phases of the campaign. India soon is required for the second Oli calls a meeting of the ensure smooth supply, it has halted those who took the first, and there is 700,000 doses in stock at various stor- During the first phase of the vacci- dose for those who have already the ongoing immunisation campaign no certainty of getting additional age facilities across the country. nation drive, between January 27 received the first. Parliamentary Party which indefinitely. doses immediately to extend the sec- Nepal has so far received 2.348 mil- and March 4, 438,879 people were “We will administer the second The Ministry of Health and ond phase.” lion doses of vaccine—1 million under vaccinated while over 1.2 million peo- dose of vaccine from April 20 to Nepal faction may skip and Population said that it has no plan to The second phase of immunisation grant assistance from India; another ple have been immunised in the sec- all who took the first dose,” Pokhrel resume the drive immediately. of those over 65 years began on March million of the 2 million doses that the ond phase. told the Post. invite action, leaders say. “Right now, we do not have a new 7 and ended on Tuesday. government has bought from the According to Dr Roshan Pokhrel, >> Continued on page 2 ANIL GIRI KATHMANDU, MARCH 17 When the Madhav Kumar Nepal fac- tion of the CPN-UML announced that Budget delay hampers it would hold a national gathering of party cadres on March 17 and 18, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli warned against organising such meet- reconstruction of houses ings and urged cadres not to attend it. Ignoring his warning, the gathering did go ahead on Wednesday, raising the possibility of more confrontation with- destroyed last monsoon in the already fractured ruling party. “We dared Oli to take action against us,” Central Committee member Displaced families wonder how long they will have Gangalal Tuladhar said. “Today we organised a gathering of more than to live without proper roof above their heads. 2,500 party leaders and cadres. So how many people will face action? If he starts taking action against us, then what will happen to Oli himself ?” More scathing was what Nepal had to say in the report he presented at the gathering. “As Oli has made mistakes, he should resign,” the report said. “The party should prepare for an acting leadership. Decisions made by the fac- tions should be scrapped.” The two-day gathering was called after Oli on March 12 decided to relieve leaders close to Nepal of their responsibilities such as party vice chairs and provincial committee in-charge. During a meeting between Oli and Nepal as well as a number of leaders of the two factions at the party head- quarters on March 15, neither Oli agreed to scrap the March 12 decisions POST PHOTO: ANISH TIWARI nor Nepal agreed to cancel the gather- The temporary settlement at Baskharka in Jugal Rural Municipality of Sindhupalchok district ing and withdraw his faction’s deci- houses 170 families displaced by the Lidi landslide. sion to form parallel committees across the country. CHANDAN KUMAR MANDAL 170 families to the Baskharka area Addressing the gathering on KATHMANDU, MARCH 17 erecting 98 temporary tents in a com- Wednesday, Nepal said, “Oli’s behav- munity forest. iour has shut the door for party For Jyabarani Tamang, ensuring that Unable to live in tents, some fami- unity. Oli is trying to break our party the tent that shelters her five-member lies have returned to Lidi. They are into pieces.” family including a four-month-old, is staying with their neighbours and rel- Oli and Nepal had a troubled rela- not blown away by strong winds is a atives. But many other families like tionship ever since the Nepal daily struggle. Tamang’s continue to live in tents Communist Party (NCP) was formed She has been living in a tent at a with tarpaulin sheets for roofs. They after the merger between CPN-UML temporary shelter set up at Baskharka are surviving off the food materials and the Communist Party of Nepal of Jugal Rural Municipality in provided by government and non-gov- (Maoist Centre), forcing Nepal to even- Sindhupalchok district following a ernmental agencies. tually side with Pushpa Kamal Dahal, deadly landslide in August last year. “I lost many relatives in the land- the other chair of the now defunct Water drips from the tent roof, and slide which swept away my house and party, to counter Oli’s moves. inside it is cold and wet. The bed is land. Because of such a tragic memo- Oli dissolved the House of laid on the wet ground. ry, I do not feel like going back to Representatives on December 20 as a “With dew at night, the bed turns Lidi,” said Tamang. “However, staying result of the feud, accusing detractors cold and wet, making it difficult to here in this open land is nothing less in his party of not letting him work. sleep. And my four-month-old daugh- than fighting a war every day.” On February 23, the Supreme Court ter is sick,” said Tamang. Families who lost their homes in restored the House in an apparent But she has no option as there is landslides and floods in different parts victory for Nepal. nowhere else she can go. of the country last year fear that they >> Continued on page 2 The only respite from the winds may have to continue to live in tempo- chilled by Jugal Himal for her rary arrangements this monsoon too. are the sun’s rays. “It feels like In Kailali, 211 families displaced getting a new lease of life when- from Chure Rural Municipality by ever it is a bright sunny day out- landslides last monsoon had descend- side,” said Tamang. ed to the Tarai plains and set up a The Lidi landslide in camp inside a community forest of Sindhupalchok killed 33 individ- Gauriganga Municipality, demanding uals of 17 families in total. It also safer relocation. destroyed 17 houses and dam- As local government authorities aged 37 others, displacing over and forest officials tried to evict them 100 families from the village. from the forest area, they were later As the settlement was at risk shifted to an open space at Ward 4 of of another landslide, Jugal Rural Chure Rural Municipality. Municipality relocated a total of >> Continued on page 2 C M Y K THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2021 | 02 NATIONAL Budget delay hampers reconstruction ... >> Continued from page 1 slides, 39 in floods and 35 by lightning placed people to start rebuilding their Months later these families have no strikes. Another 100 went missing and houses,” said Gautam. “Completing safer place to go and continue to live 325 suffered injuries, according to offi- the overall reconstruction within the in open areas. cial figures. next few months will be difficult. We The government had promised to But it is not just the lack of budget have seen the National Reconstruction rebuild private houses damaged due that is the issue. Complete data on the Authority has not completed [rebuild- to monsoon-induced disasters provid- number of houses damaged is yet to ing of houses destroyed in the 2015 ing financial support. However, noth- be collected. The responsibility of col- earthquake] in the last five to six ing has happened yet. lecting and verifying such data was of years.” Resham Dong, 52, a resident of the respective district disaster man- Experts say that bureaucratic red Lamagau, Jugal Rural Municipality agement committees. tape is an old problem in Nepal. has gotten tired of living in the tent As per initial estimates, between “One of the major obstacles of gov- for months now. 2,600 and 2,700 houses will require ernment plans have always been “It feels like I am going to die in this reconstruction, according to Gautam. bureaucratic hassles and budget allo- tent. We have been running for our “Data collection is ongoing. We have cation,” said Basanta Raj Adhikari, a lives since the 2015 earthquake,” said written to all the chief district officers disaster management expert and an Dong.
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