{"id":319549,"date":"2026-10-12T22:09:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=319549"},"modified":"2026-10-12T22:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:25:05","slug":"law-amended-to-declare-missing-persons-dead-in-floods-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/law-amended-to-declare-missing-persons-dead-in-floods-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Law amended to declare missing persons dead in floods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu. The amendments to the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act, 2074 and the National Identity Card and Registration Act, 2076 have been published in the Gazette through the Ordinance of the Council of Ministers of the Government of Nepal. It is believed that the amendment will provide relief to the families of those missing in the floods. <\/p>\n

The process of legally declaring the missing citizens and registering the death has been simplified<\/span>. The ordinance has laid down the procedure for declaring the dead by specifying the clear role of various agencies <\/span>. Under this, the decision of the local level where the deceased is permanently resident, the decision of the disaster management committee, and the 7-day public notice publication by the disaster authority will have to be completed. If no one makes a claim or protest within 7 days of the publication of the notice, the Executive Committee will make a recommendation to the Government of Nepal to remove the name of the claimant from the list and declare the death of only the remaining missing persons. And, finally, the Council of Ministers has declared the deceased in five stages. <\/span> <\/p>\n

Now, TAG_OPEN_span_27 after declaring the deceased dead, the Council of Ministers will have to obtain a copy of the certificate (proof) and citizenship of the indicator and apply for the death registration at the office of the Registrar of the local level where the deceased is permanently or temporarily residency. <\/span> and the local level will issue the death registration certificate. <\/span> <\/p>\n

According to the Civil Code 2074, a person can be declared dead only after 12 years of disappearance. The ordinance has also opened another legal avenue for declaring a dead person.TAG_OPEN_span_25 <\/span> <\/p>\n

With the implementation of the amended ordinance, the heirs of the disappeared citizens of the Rasuwa Bhotekoshi disaster will now get a great help to get the death registration certificate and feel relief by getting the insurance claim payment. On the basis of the death registration certificate received from the local government, they can immediately apply for the death claim from the insurance companies.TAG_OPEN_span_24 <\/span> <\/p>\n

5,285 people are still missing in the devastating disaster in the Bhotekoshi River in Rasuwa. According to the status report of the NRA, more than 1,455 people have been confirmed dead in the severe floods and landslides of August 26. Some of the bodies found after the floods and landslides are decomposed and some are unidentified. Due to this, it is difficult to identify and confirm the dead. <\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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What happens if the person declared dead returns alive? <\/span> <\/h4>\n<\/p>\n
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According to the Ordinance, if a person who has been declared dead comes back alive later, if he or his family member makes an application, the Government of Nepal shall inquire and cancel the declaration of death <\/span>. Also, it will not have any adverse effect on the rights of the person declared dead under the law {{TAG_OPEN_span_20 TAG_CLOSE_span_21 TAG_CLOSE_span_20}}. <\/span> The family does not have to refund the relief or compensation taken for the claim payment <\/span>}. <\/span> If the wife of the deceased person has remarried after the declaration, the previous marital relationship will not be re-established<\/span>}. <\/span> <\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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Kathmandu. The amendments to the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act, 2074 and the National Identity Card and Registration Act, 2076 have been published in the Gazette through the Ordinance of the Council of Ministers of the Government of Nepal. It is believed that the amendment will provide relief to the families of those missing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":124631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45031,45067,45152,45149,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banner-news-en","category-important-en","category-life-insurance-en","category-laghu-beema-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319550,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319549\/revisions\/319550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/124631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}