Nepal, Oct. 8 -- The Koshi province government is going to reconstruct all houses that were damaged and washed away by recent landslides and floods.

A meeting of the Province Disaster Management Council held under chairmanship of Chief Minister Hikmat Kumar Karki on Wednesday took the decision to this effect.

According to the Koshi government, the houses should be reconstructed immediately in Ilam, Jhapa and Morang districts where the disaster hit the most. The meeting decided to collect the details of the houses and forward the construction activities as well as recommend the federal government to declare seven local levels of Ilam district as crisis-hit areas.

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