Locals get grants to make traditional houses in Bhaktapur

The Bhaktapur Municipality has provided more than Rs 6.4 million in grants to the locals for supporting them to build houses in traditional style.

The municipality has provided 35 per cent in grants to the locals for constructing houses in traditional styles by fulfilling the building codes.

Chairman of Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party Narayan Man Bijukchhe on Thursday handed over the grants to the beneficiaries.

A beneficiary received Rs 75,000 to Rs 846,000 based on the purchase of local bricks, wooden artistic windows, doors and other materials for the building construction.

On the occasion, Bijukchhe said that heritages are the living assets within Bhaktapur Municipality and asked for the proactive role of the municipality for its preservation.

He viewed that the new generation should take a lead for the preservation, construction and reconstruction of heritages including the abstract ones.

Mayor of Bhaktapur Municipality Sunil Prajapati pledged to continue this scheme in the upcoming years too.