{"id":436388,"date":"2026-09-21T13:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=436388"},"modified":"2026-09-21T13:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:04:36","slug":"government-to-relocate-and-rebuild-bhotekoshi-flood-affected-settlements-in-safer-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/09\/21\/436388.html","title":{"rendered":"Government to relocate and rebuild Bhotekoshi flood-affected settlements in safer areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>Infrastructure Development Minister Sunil Lamsal has said the government will relocate settlements located in high-risk areas affected by floods in the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river corridors and rebuild them at safer locations with resilient infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a meeting of the Infrastructure Development Committee under the House of Representatives today, Minister Lamsal said risk-prone areas would be assessed and road construction plans would be prepared only for safer locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/mister-lamsal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-436389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/mister-lamsal.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/mister-lamsal-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/mister-lamsal-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the government would also expedite the reconstruction of flood-damaged bridges, build temporary bridges at critical locations and prepare plans to restore connectivity in the affected areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Committee members stressed the need to consider climate and environmental risks during reconstruction and strengthen coordination through multi-hazard risk assessments and digital early-warning systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at a meeting of the Infrastructure Development Committee under the House of Representatives today, Minister Lamsal said risk-prone areas would be assessed and road construction plans would be prepared only for safer locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":436389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-436388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436388"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436390,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436388\/revisions\/436390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436388"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=436388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}