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Damage put at Rs 200 billion, relief fund donations pass Rs 4 billion
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It was published at 28 August 2026, 6:00 pm NPT and is kept online as the record of what was confirmed at that hour. Figures in it are no longer current.
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The Prime Minister's Disaster Relief Fund's balance has reached Rs 4.091 billion, the finance ministry said in a Friday update reported by Onlinekhabar, up from Rs 2.172 billion before the latest round of deposits, which added Rs 1.918 billion between noon Wednesday and midnight Thursday. The fund had taken in Rs 273.3 million in its first six hours, led by a Rs 100 million gift from Gorkha Brewery. That is public donations, separate from the Rs 1 billion the government has already released for relief.
Physical Infrastructure Minister Sunil Lamsal said damage to roads and bridges is around Rs 200 billion. He called it preliminary information.
That figure does not include energy infrastructure. Energy Minister Biraj Bhakta Shrestha has ordered an immediate assessment of hydropower damage. In Rasuwa, 8 projects have been hit, 5 of them operational with a combined 236 megawatts, and 3 still under construction with a combined 342 megawatts. Nuwakot has lost access to 6 more projects, 4 operational at 123 megawatts and 2 under construction at 53 megawatts.
Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading and Chitwan are still being surveyed for road and building damage, so the Rs 200 billion figure is expected to rise.
The government has released Rs 1 billion to the disaster relief fund, plus Rs 10 million each to Rasuwa and Nuwakot and Rs 5 million to Dhading. The World Bank has separately offered up to Rs 25 billion in emergency assistance, its Nepal country director told the finance ministry. That is aid, not a damage estimate.
Insurers say claims will take weeks to settle because most of the damaged sites cannot be reached by road.
UNICEF says at least 17,000 children have been affected across Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading. It counts 18 schools destroyed and 20 more damaged in those three districts, wider than the 8 schools Onlinekhabar had reported damaged in Rasuwa and Nuwakot alone a day earlier. UNICEF says around 10,000 school-age children now need help such as temporary classrooms and replacement books to keep learning.
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