Kathmandu. The Federation of Nepal Truck Transport Entrepreneurs (FNCCI) has said that 677 workers have gone missing in the floods. The federation informed a meeting chaired by the Director General of the Department of Transport Management, Rajiv Pokharel, on Thursday that 515 trucks and containers have gone missing.

The Ministry of Infrastructure Development has formed a committee under the coordination of Director General of the Department of Transport Management, Pokharel, to prepare a report with opinions on the assessment of human and physical damage caused by the floods and the basis of compensation. The committee has been given the responsibility to submit a report with suggestions within 15 days.

Presenting preliminary details of human and physical damages caused by the floods, the Federation said that the number of workers out of contact and the missing trucks and containers might increase further.

The committee comprises representatives from the Ministry of Infrastructure Development, representatives of the Infrastructure Development Minister’s Secretariat, transport entrepreneurs’ associations, Federation president Rajendra Bikram Baniya and Federation general secretary Badri Prasad Chaulagain, among others.