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Household Survey at Sankhu commenced
After a 3-days training on Detail Damage Assessment and Orientation on Urban Regeneration, 14 volunteer architects as well as architecture students are in the field at Sankhu starting from 27th June, Saturday. Altogether 25 sectors have been identified to the volunteers for surveying the households of the traditional settlement of Sankhu. The two-weeks long survey is being conducted under the urban regeneration activity of one of the core programs of the National Society for Earthquake Technology- Nepal (NSET) namely Public Private Partnership for Earthquake Risk Management (3PERM).
Sankhu is one of the oldest Newari villages of the Kathmandu valley that holds pristine natural surroundings and offers a galore of culture and heritage of the Goddess Vajrayogini and Newari people. It is located 17km northwest of Kathmandu at an altitude of 4800 feet above sea level. Trading, farming and organizing business are the major occupation of the locals here. Being surrounded by beautiful hills and proximity to Shali Nadi (Hindu pilgrimage) and trail to Nagarkot, the place offers great potential for tourism industry. However, the place has long been economically subdued due to years of neglect.
After the recent devastating earthquake in Nepal, this old settlement was almost completely destructed which needs to be regenerated and revived for which there is an urgent need of planning addressing to restore its rich architecture and tourism activities as well. The ultimate beneficiary of the regeneration would be the local inhabitants of Sankhu. This household survey is the first step towards the proposal development for Urban Regeneration of the settlement. After the completion of this survey, the household survey will then be followed by a weeklong infrastructure, monument and public building survey of Sankhu, Khokana and Bungamati, dividing the volunteers into 3 different groups.
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