{"id":431241,"date":"2026-06-13T22:48:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=431241"},"modified":"2026-06-13T22:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:03:58","slug":"128-locations-in-kathmandu-at-risk-of-inundation-this-monsoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/06\/13\/431241.html","title":{"rendered":"128 locations in Kathmandu at risk of inundation this monsoon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has identified 128 locations across Kathmandu district at risk of inundation during this year\u2019s monsoon season, with an estimated 8,315 families likely to be affected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Kathmandu-Metropolitan-City.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-340912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Kathmandu-Metropolitan-City.jpg 760w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Kathmandu-Metropolitan-City-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To reduce potential damage, the KMC has approved a pre-monsoon preparedness and response plan, said Anirudha Nepal, Chief of the Disaster Management Department at the KMC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nepal informed that ward No. 14, located in the low-lying area near the confluence of the Bagmati and Bishnumati rivers, faces the highest flood risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other vulnerable wards include wards 13, 15, 29, 10, 16, 26, 32 and 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, he shared that ward no. 30 has the highest number of flood-prone sites, with 21 locations identified, while wards 4 and 32 each have 10 risk areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, ward no. 16 is expected to be the most severely affected, with around 1,600 families at risk due to flooding in the Samakhushi, Bishnumati and other streams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An estimated 1,255 families in ward 26, 950 in ward 3, and 955 in ward 4 may also be adversely affected, the KMC cautions. The Metropolis has also designated 51 parks, 28 open spaces and 87 schools for emergency use during disasters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pre-monsoon preparedness and response plan is devised in accordance with the forecasts from the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, which predicts monsoon rainfall from June 1 to September 30 for this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To reduce potential damage, the KMC has approved a pre-monsoon preparedness and response plan, said Anirudha Nepal, Chief of the Disaster Management Department at the KMC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":340912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-431241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431242,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431241\/revisions\/431242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431241"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=431241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}