GTZ Project Document No. 51 Report on Nahi Baseline Survey

Nahi Baseline Survey April- May 2001with massive amount of timber being used. Considering the ground floor, most houseshave two stories while a few have three or more stories mostly with rooms rangingbetween four and eight or sometimes more. A careful consideration of the quality,condition and the time of construction of some houses in this category may be necessarybefore one conclude them as better housing. Some are built long time back and are veryold, while some are built recently with more modifications and improvements in manyrespects like separate kitchen, no cattle in the ground floor, etc. The distribution of thehouses in the upper and lower valley with different number of rooms, stories and types ofroofing the houses have are shown in the Table 2.2.Table 2.2 Number of rooms, stories and type of house roofing.Upper Nahi(<strong>No</strong>. of houses) %Number of rooms Actual Number Actual NumberLower Nahi(<strong>No</strong> of houses) % Total Total %1 – 2 rooms 9 9.7 11 11.9 20 21.63 – 4 rooms 24 26 20 21 44 475 – 6 rooms 5 5.4 12 13 17 18.47 – 8 rooms 4 4.3 4 4.3 8 8.69 – 10 rooms 1 1.1 1 1.1 2 2.212 – 13 rooms 2 2.2 0 0 2 2.2Number of storiesTotal 45 49 48 <strong>51</strong> 93 1001 story 11 12 14 15 25 272 stories 27 29 29 31 56 603 stories 6 6.5 6 6.5 12 13Roofing of the houseTotal 44 48 49 52 93 100Bamboo 1 1.1 3 3.2 4 4Zinc Sheet 6 6.5 5 5.4 11 12Planks (Shingleps) 35 38 41 44.3 76 82Slate 1 1.1 1 1.1 2 2Total 43 46 50 54 93 100Plans for zincs 7 8.5 4 4.9 11 13.4Source: RRA Survey May 2001Approximately, about 68 houses (including 2 and 3 storied) are recorded in the thirdcategory and about 25 in the other two categories. The number of rooms reflected in theTable 2.2 are mainly based on the different partitions a single house has. Therefore, it islikely that some rooms in some houses may be a simple partition without windows orventilations unsuitable for use as living or bedrooms.From 93 houses the majority have plank roofings (76 houses) while about 11 houses havezinc sheet a few with bamboo and slate. The majority of the houses in the valley (44)8