Nepal's parliament demands faster flood response as death toll exceeds 1,100
Catastrophic glacial flooding in Nepal's Rasuwa district on 26 August killed over 1,100 people and displaced thousands. On 9 September, parliament members urged the government to accelerate search-and-rescue operations and provide financial support to victims. Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle simultaneously met with over twenty donor agencies to coordinate reconstruction efforts.
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Two weeks after glacial flooding devastated the Bhote Koshi river valley in Rasuwa district, Nepal's Parliament convened on 9 September to scrutinise the government's disaster response. During a special session of the House of Representatives, lawmakers including Mohammad Khalid, Tul Prasad Bishwakarma, Lalit Jung Shahi, Renu Chand, Kiran Babu Shrestha and Gita Devkota raised concerns about the pace and scale of relief efforts. They called for intensified search and rescue operations, concessional loans and employment programmes for affected residents, price stabilisation in impacted areas, improved coordination between federal and local authorities, and international compensation from developed nations for climate-related losses, according to Nepal News.
Concurrently, Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle convened a meeting with more than twenty mission heads and country directors of development and donor agencies at the Ministry of Finance to discuss post-disaster recovery strategies. The agenda included damage assessment procedures and a Rapid Disaster Needs Assessment designed to establish reconstruction priorities, as reported by Nepal News. According to updates from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, more than 21,000 security personnel—comprising army, police and armed police—had been mobilised for search, rescue and relief operations, with thousands of injured individuals receiving medical treatment from military and police medical teams.
The disaster, triggered by a glacial lake outburst that also affected Tibet, ranks among Nepal's deadliest natural disasters in recent years. According to ABC News, the confirmed death toll had surpassed 1,100, with tens of thousands of people continuing to search for missing relatives since the flooding struck on 26 August.
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