Nepal Army expedites construction of holding centers

Each holding center will have at least 1,000 beds to temporarily house Covid-19 suspected and infected people. (File photo)

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Kathmandu: The Nepal Army (NA) has accelerated the construction of holding centers in various eight places across the country in view of minimizing the risk of Covid-19.

Chief of Army Staff Prabhu Ram Sharma in the first quarterly review meeting of the fiscal year 2021/22 in the Ministry of Defense shared that the construction process of seven holding centers has witnessed over 60 percent physical progress till date.

He said, “Process is underway to construct a one-story building which could be used for another purpose in future too. Only 50 percent of the total allocated budget has been released for the same.”

Holding centers are being built at Gaddachauki along with Nepal-India border point in Kanchanpur district, Gaurifanta in Kailali, Kakadvitta in Jhapa district, Rani in Morang district, Krishnanagar in Kapilvastu, Birgunj in Parsa district, Banke in Nepalgunj and Belhiya in Rupandehi.

Each holding center will have at least 1,000 beds to temporarily house Covid-19 suspected and infected people. In the lack of land in Rupandehi, holding center-related works could not be taken forward, according to the Ministry of Defence.

A target has been set to complete the construction of holding centers at a cost of Rs 2 billion.