Home Minister for building emergency godown in local level

Kathmandu, April 27: Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak has said that the emergency godowns should be built in the local levels for disaster risks reduction and response.     

At a programme on Disaster Dialogue with Home Minister on Sunday, the Home Minister said that the local governments should be made effective since they are the ones to closely work in the time of natural disasters.     

He added that the local governments are to implement the policies and they should be made efficient by constructing warehouses.     

Lekhak viewed that each local level should develop the emergency warehouse and should store the basic goods there.     

The Home Minister stated that the local levels should not build a separate house for this purpose but should allocate separate space in their existing office building.     

The federal and province governments should extend support for this efforts but the base should be the local government, Minister Lekhak.(RSS)