These people, mostly in Ayeyawaddy division, are living in unsecured temporary houses and fear spending the monsoon season there. The secured houses were expected to cost 10.2 million U.S. dollars, the resident office of the United Nations (UN)- HABITAT was quoted as saying.

The Cyclone Nargis, which swept Myanmar in May last year, destroyed a total of 450,000 houses, 350,000 totally wrecked, with an estimated loss of 686 million dollars, according to a report of the post-Nargis Joint Assessment (PONJA) of a tripartite core group involving ASEAN, Myanmar and the UN.

Of the damaged houses, 200,000 were rebuilt by social and religious organizations, while about 17,000 others by government, domestic and international organizations.

Before Nargis struck Myanmar, 50 percent of the houses in Ayeyawaddy division were built with wood and bamboo, 35 percent with wood and 15 percent with brick and concrete.

Under a three-year plan (2009-2011) for rehabilitation and disaster preparedness, 700 million dollars are needed from the international community, the PONJA report said.

The tropical cyclone Nargis hit the five divisions and states of Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago, Mon and Kayin in Myanmar on May 2 and 3 last year. Ayeyawaddy and Yangon suffered the heaviest casualties and massive infrastructural damage.

The storm killed 84,537 people, leaving 53,836 missing and 19, 359 injured according to the official death toll.