2 years after Nepal quake, rebuilding disappoints, funding gap widens

Two years ago, Nepal's biggest earthquake in eight decades reduced Padam Bahadur Biswokarma's three-story house in Chautara town of Sindhupalchowk district, a three-hour drive northeast of Kathmandu, to a pile of debris.The coppersmith, now 61, spent two monsoons under a temporary shelter waiting for the first tranche, or 50,000 rupees ($480), of the 300,000 rupees the government has promised as a housing grant to each quake-hit household."The grant never came," Biswokarma lamented.After running out of patience, Biswokarma recently got the debris cleared and erected a two-story house that h…READ FULL ARTICLE