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Japan to extend food packages
to insurgency affected people
Post Report
KATHMANDU, March 7 : The Government of Japan is
going to provide relief food packages and transportation cost to the Nepalese government
for their distribution to those displaced or affected by insurgency.
The Embassy of Japan and Home Ministry signed an
agreement to this effect here today.
Charge d‘Affaires at the Embassy of Japan
Kazumi Suzuki said that 36 tons of food packages donated by the local governments in Japan
via Japan Society for Promotion of Diplomacy are to be handed over to the Government of
Nepal under the Emergency Food Supply for Insurgency- Affected People project.
Each package will contain pre-cooked and dried
food, which can be instantly consumed after keeping in water for some time. Such food
packages are prepared and stocked by the Japanese local governments to be distributed and
used in emergency situations like earthquake, fire, flood, and they contain nutritious
foods including rice, vegetables, beans and so on.
The Japanese Government is going to provide US $
80,743 needed for the transportation of food to Nepalgunj and will hand over the
consignment to the Home Ministry.
Joint Secretary at the Home Ministry Umesh
Prasad Mainali informed the press that there are 7,373 insurgency-displaced people in
Nepal out of whom 2,205 would receive the food aid. "The available food is equivalent
to 362,750 meals and will last for around three months for 2,205 people" he said.
The project would cover nine districts, namely,
Rukum, Rolpa, Salyan, Pyuthan, Jajarkot, Humla, Jumla, Kalikot and Bardiya and would
especially concentrate on the mid-western region.
Nepal would bear the cost of internal transport
after the food packages are handed over at Nepalgunj and the Home Ministry would be
responsible for the distribution of the food items to the affected people.
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