Kathmandu, Sept. 21 -- The government, with support from Nepal Engineering Association, is carrying out a rapid assessment of the public and private buildings set on fire during the Gen Z uprising on September 8-9.

Twenty different teams comprising officials from the Department of Urban Development and Building Construction and the association have been conducting post-arson assessment of the infrastructure to ascertain whether they are inhabitable.

Through the assessment, the teams will ascertain if the particular structures can be reused after minor repairs, can come into use after retrofitting or need to be demolished.

"This is a preliminary study. The detailed damage assessment would be done based on the findings from the first pha...