The relief goods including food grain and other foodstuff brought here to be distributed to the quake survivors have been destroyed as they have become useless.
Stored at the Skill Training Center at Bidur, the relief materials have become date expired and decayed and hence had to be destroyed. They were destroyed over a week's period.
These relief goods and food grains were brought here by various organizations and donor countries in April and May immediately after the April 25, 2015, Gorkha Earthquake and stored at the Center. But these relief materials went to the waste as they were not distributed and managed for a long time.
The goods were stocked after a dispute between the district administration and the political parties erupted following the devastating earthquake regarding the manner and the priority in which the relief should be distributed.
The relief goods and foodstuff worth over Rs 50 million was stockpiled on the damp floor at the Training Center without any protective measures and more than half amount of the relief has got rotten, Administrative Officer at the District Administration Office, Nanda Lal Sharma, said.
According to Sharma, the food grains and foodstuff destroyed is worth over Rs 20 million.
