DOLAKHA, JUNE 10
As many as 400 families in Kalinchowk Rural Municipality-5, Dolakha, are displaced due to the landslides every year.
Locals at Katik Tole, Lakaingaun, Maidane, Mijar Tole, Kandaghari, Silaphare and Bandethali among others, are at a high risk of landslides and have shifted to safer places. The locals are compelled to leave their ancestral houses and move to Kathmandu and India following the same. Some villagers took shelter in their relatives' house while most of villagers have gone to different places. The locals have been facing the problems after the state paid no attention in resolving the problems. Newly-elected Ward 5 Chairman Sahadev Khadka said that the people's displacement had increased due to apathetic attitude of the authorities concerned towards the villagers.
He said that the state has to see the plight of the people and come up with the immediate plan to save them from the disaster.
Meanwhile, at the initiative of Ward Chair Khadka Dolakha Chief District Officer Bhoj Raj Khatiwada, DSP Ganga Prasad Poudel, rural municipality Chairman Arjun Siwakoti, vicechair Kul Bahadur Budhathoki and mediapersons, among others, have reached the site and inspected the risk of the landslides in the areas. Khadka urged the CDO-led team to save the people and manage the shelter for the villagers.
Siwakoti said that the rural municipality would provide security to the people rather than controlling and initiatives had to be taken to manage shelter to the victim soon. He said that they were committed to ensuring the safety and security of the people and urged them to contact him in case of emergency and difficult condition.
A version of this article appears in the print on June 11, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
