Kathmandu: Nepal is currently grappling with an unprecedented humanitarian crisis following catastrophic flash floods along the Bhote Koshi and Trishuli rivers across the Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading, and Gorkha districts, causing severe infrastructure damage, massive displacement, and an ongoing search for missing persons.
Assessing the staggering scale of the disaster and the immediate government measures, Dr Govind Raj Pokharel, former Vice Chair of the National Planning Commission of Nepal and former CEO of the National Reconstruction Authority, stated in an exclusive interview with from Kathmandu, "I think the immediate response that the Nepalese government has been carrying out, it's sufficient if you see based on their resources capacity and their security network and so on. The scale of damage is so high, it's like a parlay, we cannot imagine because the flood volume of water and the speed and the damages that has caused in settlement, hydropower, government offices and roads, it's beyond imagination. That's why if you see that scale of disaster and the response of government, you have to appreciate."
