Chaudhary group builds 1,700 temporary homes, schools in Nepal

Nepal's first billionaire has constructed 1,700 transitional homes and 30 schools, out of the 10,000 promised with the help of different organisations including India's Tata group for the survivors of the two major earthquakes that rocked the country last year.
Chaudhary Group Foundation last month handed over 133 transitional homes to the quake-hit people in Hattitar and Gaikhura villages of Ramechhap district. It has so far constructed 1,700 transitional homes and 30 schools.
The group will finance the construction of 1,000 transitional shelters and 9,000 others will be built with the fund collected from different organisations, including India's Tata group, Nepal's first billionaire Binod Chaudhary said.

"We have reached some of the most impoverished areas of the affected districts and built transitional shelters," Chaudhary, whose grandfather had moved to Nepal one-and-a-half century ago from India, said today.
"In Dolalghat Village Development Community of Kavre district, where the whole village was destroyed, we (have) built 200 shelters. I feel so happy to see the whole village getting a new life. We also reached two of Gorkha's remotest villages - Gairung and Taklung to build shelters," he said.
"The happiness we feel when we see the smiles on the faces of the people in these areas is beyond measure. We are making our best efforts to bring smiles to the faces of more and more people who were rendered homeless by the earthquake," he said.

The group, manufacturer of popular Wai Wai noodles and part of a global hotel chains, is currently working in 10 districts which are Ramechhap, Dolakha, Sindhupalchok, Kavre, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Dhading, Nuwakot and Gorkha.
Dale Bahadur Bajgain, 85, of the Burun Chuli who had witnessed the 1934 devastating earthquake, is happy to live with his grandson in the newly constructed transitional shelter. "It gave us a new life and we are safe as well as comfortable here," he said.
Over 9,000 people were killed in the two major earthquakes that shook Nepal on April 25 and May 12 last year.