[Music] good evening welcome to the per report I'm Diana Lynn a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal two years ago killing about 9,000 people and destroying some 800,000 homes and world heritage sites despite substantial foreign aid much of the country lie in Ruins many victims remain homeless producer Billy Wong was in Nepal to examine what's delaying reconstruction and what the future holds for disaster [Music] victims shiv ratri one of the biggest Hindu festivals devotees pay homage to Lord
Shiva in temples and shrines across Nepal where 80% of his population of 30 million are Hindus filmmaker alok tula and Friends celebrate at kmu derba Square a UNESCO world heritage site with dozens of temples of various religions we believe that if we take in the heat from the fire then we will not feel cold any longer because it is the Advent of the uh spring season people also prepare some holy food like [Music] popcorn today we are doing the bonfire and the musical program in front of camab s
o that we could draw more attention from the public that candb is needs a rebuilding and the community needs to be [Music] involved Nepal's capital catmandu is named after the cast mandab a 7th Century guest house one of the nation's oldest in recent decades it was used as a community Hall on the morning of April 25th 2015 a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shru community worker Donna kapali was volunteering with his wife a nurse in a blood donation drive here my wife was poking someone's arm for blood
if I stayed in front of her I might distract her so I went out after I went out out the earthquake hit I think everything collapsed in 2 minutes there was dust everywhere I couldn't see anything I got out to the road and started to cry shout and scream for help people around the community came and started to help clear the rubble he says government rescue teams took several hours to arrive scores of people were killed IMM if the government had sent the rescue team immediately then my wife wouldn
't have died all my family members have great love and respect for my wife in our 32 years of marriage were never rude to each other or had serious conflicts she's very softspoken it took 8 hours to extricate her body from a rubble middle my wife's body did not have any scratch or blood and looked alive I think my wife died due to Suffocation fore when I recall those days I still feel anxious and depressed still my family could not settle down well after the death of my wife my children could no
t work they had [Music] trauma the epicenter of the Templar was in GAA Northwest of catmandu seismic waves devastated Central Nepal killing around 9,000 people to quite some extent this is a man-made disaster in the sense that we did not maintain the building and the some of the reconstructions or the Restorations that we have done actually weakened the building quite badly one of the major suspected reason for the collapse of this building is this renovation that was done in the' 70s in which t
hey they put this uh brick floor T brick floor on the on the ground floor and while they put that they removed some of the Timber structure that was here structurally damaging the earlier system the earthquake wed Havoc to the seven centuries old UNESCO sites in catmandu over 700 Heritage buildings were damaged Nationwide 2 years on only less than 10% have been rebuilt most are still in Ruins Dr Govinda pool a veteran public official was recently appointed head of reconstruction vetting and supe
rvising all reconstruction projects the best of reconstruction is slow we have to accept that because in the past we have not done many things sequentially we are in political transition so there was other priorities like Constitution making and the change of government a decade long Civil War overthrew the 240 year old monarchy giving birth to the Republic of Nepal in 2006 engulfed in partisan conflicts the parliament elected nine ministers in the past decade and fought over the drafting of a n
ew Constitution that came into effect in September 2015 lots of political issues took priority than the Reconstruction it's a politics and bureaucracy that has contributed in delaying the process the site of cast map is now fenced off devotees wishing to pray in a shrine inside and now paying homage to this lock with offerings of rise and incense Heritage monuments We Believe are actually living monuments with a soul of their own the government has undertaken Heritage reconstruction as just like
building a road and award the Reconstruction of the temple to the lowest uh bidding contractor there's of course a big question mark about what would be the quality of the uh reconstruction we need around nearly 10 billion US dollar and we have commitment around 4.5 billion US do in technical assistant and budgetary support Financial Grant and soft loan from different development Partners they include the governments of China India and Sri Lanka Nepali government should fill the Gap alok and hi
s family helped launch a campaign to award reconstruction projects based on quality instead all of our culture history is a very big part of our identity it is our duty our moral obligation to keep it so that our future Generations can also enjoy it sambu in central kandu it's 5:45 a.m. devout Buddhists gather here every morning to participate in religious rituals ritual we believe it is a giving of life to the scoa what we the people person do do when they get up they like wash the face so the
first ritual was to the wash the face and to to wake up the all the god and goddesses this UNESCO well Heritage dates back to the fifth century and has long been managed by a Napoles cast native to this area we are the Buddha charas who take care of this swu St we are like a priest or security or everything the Buddha Chas make their living selling souvenirs to tourists 30 families totaling 200 members lived in apartment building surrounding the main stuper until the earthquake when I came back
here in afternoon I feel like I was in the dream bad dream very bad dream because all was broken in here and there 97 people lost their homes including depes Buddha Chaya they used to be my old house it was totally damaged all the walls came out and all the rubble from the house was lying here down in the past few years depes lived in another house owned by his family so I want to move back to the temple Soo as soon as possible it is my duty and our budhar family duty to live in suu is for the p
rotection so at night when no other people can come repairs of UNESCO world heritage sites must be vetted by the department of archaeology this is very difficulty first of all we have not sufficient manpow we are looking whole country we have more than 660 Manpower we are not giving any proper permission from the government and uh none of the responsible bodies are supporting us before we had some hope that everything will be done as soon as possible but it's turned into frustration [Music] now
while the main stoer is intact a few small sters and temples collapsed during the earthquake reconstruction only started recently our task is to do fundraising we have donors like the Hong Kong based ful Foundation the hyan foundation from from China government of Italy Japan Germany it's better to reconstruct slowly then too hastily but badly UNESCO has raised around $ 1.8 million us so far and his projects don't go to the lowest bidder but are executed by International experts inside this stor
e room we actually uh kept all the objects that we recovered from uh the Salvage activities they are totally unexpected we found goldplated objects like small stoas lots of small clay stupas gods and goddesses many coins from China coins from India all these objects really show that we are the center of a trade During the Reconstruction of this stoer Masons are trying to to put the artifacts back into the chamber reconstruction is expected to take another year coming up after the break homeless
for 2 years is there lights at the end of a tunnel stay with us welcome back to the PO report two years on many earthquake victims in Nepal are still living in makeshift tents studying or working in dilapidated temporary facilities producer Billy Wong goes to an urban slum as well as rural villages to record their sufferings and what can be done to help [Music] in the 2015 earthquake the cath's home in synoke was crushed by a landslide Arjun wife Kumari and their two children fled to the capital
candu 66 kilm away we came to C for safety and shelter policemen found us on the road and started an investigation they showed me a tree nearby and made us a tent under the tree to live in as we continued living there we got to know other people who also had the same problem and we started to live together about a thousand migrants have ended up in this open space some of the women over here are disabled elderly or pregnant we're living in poor conditions an NGO make these t for them there's no
electricity the squatters get their water from a public tap and permanent housing is elusive the rent for a flat is too expensive we poor people can't afford to pay rent and owners don't want to rent their Flats to poor people like us now our life is still like being under the threat and fear of the earthquake we don't get any support or assistance from the government we're in the dark imposs of a capital many people still live in temporary houses built from bamboo and plastic many are lowincom
e households or migrant workers who aren't eligible for government Relief Fund the government has pledged to ground $3,000 to land owners to rebuild their houses it paid a first installment of $500 US late last year landless people or people residing in the government land or Forest land or roadside we cannot allow them to build houses in the roadside we can't rebuild our houses because we don't have our own home and property we just used to work for others as peasants Arjun managed to find a jo
b in catmandu i a construction worker I make 500 rupees a day if I have work I'm the bread winner of the family that's around 38 Hong Kong dollars a day and he only finds work two to 3 days a week danger lurks constantly living in the open how can I make enough for my family's living and for our future with this small earning of 400 to 500 rupees a day I think it's better this government kills all of us here in one go if they don't have love and care for their own people I'd rather die than have
an uncertain future man kill us if they can't take us [Music] elsewhere it's hard to even have two meals a day with my husband's earnings in my family sometimes when he doesn't earn anything we go to sleep without food it's cold inside the tent during cold days after midnight it becomes very cold we have to give all our warm clothes and blankets to our children today we eat rice vegetables Plum pickles this is our everyday dish she says both her daughters are more nourished the Elder one is six
the younger one just two I don't think the government will let us live in this place the Heart of the City if the government settles Us in other places that would be better if the government lets us live here for two more years our children will be older we could do some cleaning jobs and household jobs and make some money and go back home late last month the government finally evicted all the occupants and buos their tents in order to build new housing on the land we have lost contact with the
CAF the government estimates the earthquake destroyed over 800,000 homes Nationwide more than 100,000 houses are being under constructed or completed more priority is for housing sector because socially and politically it is much more important we'll set Target of 5 years most of the house will be reconstructed most of the buildings and hospital will be reconstructed a 4-Hour drive to the north of CMO we are growing in the mumi it's in synup paluk and is the worst H by [Music] earthquake there
are 500 schools and almost 80 to 90% school has been demolished or like has been hit by [Music] earthquake architect Shish is volunteering to rebuild quick hit schools after this school collapsed it took the government a few months to erect this temporary Learning Center it's called corrugated galvanized seed it's a metal though it's a very stable and um readily available material here in Nepal but you know like when we talking about the climate and the comfortability is the least one it's a ver
y bad insulation for noise you know like you can if you knock also you can hear from Another Side it's a very bad uh I would like to teach you the conditional sentence look at there about 450 students aged between 3 and 18 are crammed in a dozen classrooms here it is noisy because with more than 50 student in one class so 50 student and other classes making noise and we cannot understand what sort is sing and we can we cannot focus our study in also in your our mind will be in another place no d
oor so we cannot close the door the rain comes inside our class and hamper our class our school have no electricity and no uh pure drinking water uh so we feel very bad we wish to develop our schools for the long lasting we wish there will be um concrete buildings and the useful and suitable classrooms where the students can uh learn they don't feel much hot they don't feel much cool talks with the government for a permanent School premise have stalled some of the local officials they said some
of other schools are poorer than you so first priority we have to give to them sometimes some officials come and after 6 months they go and new officers come there and we try to to convince them what we have did previously but they don't try to understand instability of the political scenario that is some [Music] problem all the schools are in remote area and construction cost over here is almost double what is there in like in City area and like transportation and building construction everythi
ng is difficult over here so those this remote area school are in the least priority of forther permanent structures many students from the school also lost their homes to the earthquake most have rebuilt them but with Shorty materials this is my room uh I see this bed 14-year-old rasilla Puri and her family rebuil their home with wood and metal plates I feel better leaving this house house why uh because this house safe and she is my mother and she is my old mother my father have two wife she i
s one and another is she and speech ] fore speech forch forign speech IGN spe [Music] spee my target is those people who are willing to build house before rainy season whatever policy or benefits government has announced will deliver them so that they will have an opportunity to build their houses these are the way forward for us well well thank you for watching our show it will be reared on Monday Tuesday and Saturday as well as on tvb.com until next time from the per Report Team good night goo
d luck and good [Music] health oh
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