RASUWA-BHOTEKOSHI FLOOD
Situation Summary — Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN)
For internal and partner circulation
| 25 SEP 2026
Ashwin 9, 2083 DATE |
19:00 NPT
AS OF |
EVOLVING
STATUS |
| PRELIMINARY NOTE
From NDRRMA Situation Report #24 (19:00 NPT, 25 September 2026 / Ashwin 9, 2083), compared against Situation Report #23 (24 September / Ashwin 8) and RRN’s situation summary of 24 September 2026. Short format: vital data and RRN-relevant points only. Figures remain provisional and subject to NDRRMA reconciliation. |
1 KEY DEVELOPMENTS
The most significant development for RRN is a decision by the Central Monsoon Response Command Post to formally request development partners, the private sector and other stakeholders to support flood-affected households. Support is to go to households identified as beneficiaries by the Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Committees, and to cover accommodation, livelihood grants, temporary or transitional shelter construction and related assistance. It must follow the prescribed grant procedures and approved designs, in coordination with local governments and District Disaster Management Committees, with NDRRMA as lead coordinator.
A Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA), led by the National Planning Commission, is now underway alongside damage assessments. A new Shelter and Settlements section reports that families are being moved from holding centres to camps, and that local governments are identifying and verifying beneficiaries for temporary and longer-term reconstruction. Temporary Housing now heads NDRRMA’s priority list. Missing fell by 265 to 5,285, the largest drop so far, and the death toll is unchanged at 1,453.
2 HEADLINE FIGURES
| Indicator | 24 Sep / Ashwin 8 | 25 Sep / Ashwin 9 |
|---|---|---|
| Total deaths | 1,453 | 1,453 (unchanged) |
| Missing | 5,550 | 5,285 (−265) |
| Currently under treatment | 7 at 3 hospitals | 7 at 3 hospitals |
| DNA samples: deaths / relatives | 1,329 / 2,035 | 1,329 / 2,060 (+25) |
| Holding centres / people | 21 / 1,107 | 21 / 1,113 (+6) |
| People by district: Rasuwa / Nuwakot / Dhading | 799 / 187 / 121 | 805 / 187 / 121 |
| Security forces mobilised | 20,477 | 20,477 |
3 CASUALTIES, MISSING AND SEARCH
The entire drop in missing is again in Nuwakot’s “people from other districts” line (855 → 590). Rasuwa’s figures (1,674 local, 1,840 from other districts) have not changed for four days and now make up about two-thirds of the total. The search and rescue table is unchanged, with no new recoveries. The Timure–Triveni police deployment is now given as 1,346 personnel over 338km of river corridor, down from 2,472 personnel over 430km on 22 September.
4 SHELTER, HEALTH AND PROTECTION
- Holding centres: Occupancy rose slightly to 1,113, all in Rasuwa (805). Nuwakot and Dhading are unchanged, even as relocation to camps is reported underway.
- Health: An Emergency and Basic Health Service Centre is now operating at Nuwakot Ayurveda and Alternative Medicine Hospital, Tallo Pipaltar. Cumulative services rose to 9,130 (EMT), 12,871 (holding centres) and 13,703 (psychosocial counselling).
- Protection: The Protection Cluster section returns with updated figures. Psychosocial support has reached 7,491 people (1,518 girls, 1,407 boys, 2,783 women, 1,783 men), including 69 older people and 42 persons with disabilities. 45 Child-Friendly Spaces reach 1,570 children, 10 Women-Friendly Spaces (now including Rasuwa) reach 1,500 women and adolescent girls, and 357 people have attended GBV sessions.
- Trafficking monitoring: The five checkpoints in Dhading and Nuwakot screen about 20 vehicles each per day, reaching around 1,000 people daily, for family separation, trafficking, exploitation and GBV. No cases or referrals are reported, and there is still no checkpoint in Rasuwa.
5 RELEVANCE FOR RRN
- Partner support request: Any RRN shelter, accommodation or livelihood support will need to go to households on the Local DRRM Committees’ beneficiary lists, follow approved designs and grant procedures, and be coordinated through local governments, DDMCs and NDRRMA.
- Move to camps: As families leave holding centres for camps, household items such as RRN’s kitchen sets and the Bidur-1 beds and mattresses become more relevant. Rasuwa’s holding-centre population (805) is not yet falling.
- PDNA: The PDNA is the main vehicle for recovery planning; RRN field data from Rasuwa and Nuwakot could feed into it through the relevant cluster or local government.
- 5W reporting: NDRRMA has not published relief distribution data since 22 September, so RRN’s Gosaikunda and Bidur-1 distributions remain unrecorded.
6 DATA GAPS
- DNA figures: The dashboard gives 2,060 samples from relatives; the body-management section gives 2,050 (total 3,379).
- Dropped sections: Highway and road updates (Prithvi, Tribhuvan, Bidur–Betrawati), helicopter flights, WASH and food security are absent. Child reunification figures (238 children in tracing) no longer appear in the protection section.
- Inconsistencies: Children receiving psychosocial counselling jumped from 428 to 730, identical to the MHPSS figure, and the MHPSS district deployment now sums to 73 against 91 field staff.