By Our Reporter National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) has failed to utilise the budget allocated for the post-quake reconstruction drive in lack of clarity in securing the money from the specified sources. It has utilised only 57.5 per cent of the total budget allocated for reconstruction in the last four years after the quake in 2015. Rs. 483.6 billion was allocated to the NRA from the fiscal year 2015/16 to 2018/19 but the NRA could use up only Rs. 276.39 billion during the period. The highest use of budget was in 2017/18 at 78.65 per cent. The problem arose when the Ministry of Finance had allocated budget to the post-quake rebuilding without resource assurance. The large part of the reconstruction is covered by the rebuilding of the private houses. About 482,323 houses damaged in the quake were rebuilt while more than 189,000 are under construction, and 69,973 houses were retrofitted. While the NRA's tenure is coming to end in December next year, it has a lot works to perform. Of the Rs. 141 billion budget, source of about Rs. 38 billion is not ensured. The money which is not going to the NRA includes Rs. 34 billion from the Indian Exim Bank announced as the line of credit during the International Conference on Nepal's reconstruction in 2015, Rs. 5 billion from the Opec Fund for International Development and Rs. 2 billion from the World Bank. Indian funds can't be used due to its condition of spending in projects larger than Rs. 1 billion, using Indian contractor and construction materials since the reconstruction involves many small-size projects such as schools and health facilities while the OFID and WB cancelled their pledges.