Nepali press notes that private groups outpaced the reconstruction authority
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The gap the organisation was working in was not an accident of geography. It was a policy vacuum, and the Nepali press said so.
भूकम्पपीडित राज्यभन्दा निजी क्षेत्रको सहयोगबाट बढी लाभान्वित बने।
The report set out the sequence. For nearly eight months after the earthquakes, party infighting prevented the National Reconstruction Authority from being constituted at all. Sushil Gyawali was appointed to lead it, and four months into his tenure the article found little of the expected work under way. Victims who had waited for the authority to be formed, expecting relief and rebuilding to follow, were still waiting.
Against that, the article described private-sector and diaspora efforts filling the space, and listed Mission Rebuild Nepal among them: an organisation that had begun as a relief operation called Mission Critical Nepal, had built and handed over 368 houses, had around a hundred more under construction, and whose founder Pradip Adhikari said the target at Sipapokhare was a thousand.
The same week, the organisation met Nepal's foreign minister Kamal Thapa and the former US ambassador Scott DeLisi in Kathmandu.
