Arbin
Adhikari
S.D.O.
LRTC-Marpak
April 18,
2019
Tipling village is one of
the farthest settlement of Dhading district situated at Northern part surround
by Rasuwa District, Sertung village and beautiful Ganesh Himal. This VDC is one
of the extreme remote community of the district where the communication had
just prelude a year ago and tracks for vehicle transportation is still in
progress. This VDC comprises with the majority of Tamang community. Machet Tole is located at north-east
direction (Ruby valley ward no.1/ Former Tipling-7), with the residency of
Tamang community. 31 beneficiaries were listed in NRA beneficiary list and now
Reconstruction of Machet Tole has been completed and people are living in their
new house.
Gorkha earthquake 2072 vacillated
Machet Tole like other part of the country and all the house built following
traditional construction practice got partial to severe damage and made the
people homeless. Living in the remote area, people of Machet (Tipling) faced
several problems during the recovery phase. All of them were listed in the
beneficiary list of government but they were totally unknown about the
earthquake resistant construction technique and building guidelines.
NSET Baliyo Ghar program supported by USAID has been working at Tipling since 2015 October to
provide technical support for earthquake resistant reconstruction. Baliyo Ghar
program has conducted many community orientations at Tipling and several in
Machet village to raise the understanding and knowledge of the local people
towards earthquake. Baliyo Ghar program also conducted Seven days mason
training for working masons and Fifty days One-the-job training for new mason
to enhance the capacity toward the resilient construction of local workforce.
Some technical inputs that Baliyo Ghar program provided to Machet Tole are
enlisted below:
After the awareness level
has raised and this place has got trained local masons, Machet started
incredible progress in safer reconstruction. Mason trainings have provided
enough theoretical and practical knowledge for the masons to build earthquake
resilient houses using the locally available construction materials wood and
stone. Said one of the trained mason Mr. Kamal Lama.
"We were totally
unaware and worried about the reconstruction guideline provided by the
government before the Mason Training but after receiving training everything
became clear and easy for us. Presence of Engineer at village and support of
construction technician encouraged us to start reconstruction soon after we got
trained”.
One of the major aspect for
the successful reconstruction of Machet Tole was the indigenous Parma system. Parma system is also known as labor exchange
practice in which the cost of work is paid by work but not money. House owners
from Machet followed the Parma system to construct their houses and reduced the
cost of labors, which lead them to build their new house with low cost. One of
the house owner from Machet and elected ward member Mr. Syu Lama Tamang Says,
"to reduce the labor cost, we worked in group, where we started houses
parallel of each individual at the group. We consecutively worked in each house
of the village, the Skilled and unskilled manpower both were involved in the
construction where the unskilled labor could also learn by supporting the
skilled manpower’s. The grant given by government is sufficient for
constructing single room house with local material and Parma system." All of the beneficiaries have already
constructed their new house and all of them got their tranches from the
government. They have constructed dry
stone masonry houses using wooden bands as transportation of cement is very
difficult for them.
Though this village is
situated in the farther most part of Dhading, it still enlighten the perfect example of the labor exchange
(Parma System) where a team work of the community has led to the successful
reconstruction. The Perma system which has been implementing in machete,
Tipling so as to complete reconstruction has revealed the good strategy for
economic management which has set the example and this is a good practice to
implement other areas to drive for reconstruction completion.
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