Government prepares to issue death certificates for those missing in Bhotekoshi floods

KATHMANDU: The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) has said the government is preparing to issue death certificates for people who went missing in the Bhotekoshi floods.

Speaking at a meeting of the Parliamentary Special Committee for Study and Monitoring of Disasters in the Bhotekoshi and Kaligandaki corridors at Singha Durbar on Tuesday, NDRRMA Chief Executive Dr Dharma Raj Upreti said the law had been amended to allow missing persons to be legally declared dead or treated as deceased.

He said the process of issuing death certificates to both Nepali and foreign nationals missing in the floods had reached its final stage.