630 houses constructed for disadvantaged groups

June 27, Jhapa: Some 630 houses have been constructed to provide residential facilities to the disadvantaged families in Jhapa Rural Municipality.

The houses were built on the collaborative efforts of Jhapa Rural Municipality, Sahara-Nepal, and Habitat-Nepal under the ‘Safe Housing Programme and Sustainable Community Project’. Safe Housing Programme Chief Tika Prasad Kandel informed that 70 houses were built in 2019; 130 houses in 2020; 238 houses in 2021 and 175 houses in 2022.

“Safe and strong houses were constructed targeting the disadvantaged families”, he said, adding, “Some other houses are under construction process”.

As part of the programme, houses were built focusing on the target groups, including most disadvantaged groups under poverty line, homeless, landless, backward groups, disaster-affected, women and people living with disabilities.