GODAVARI, JULY 28
More than 350 families reside in makeshift tents at Chure Rural Municipality-based national forest areas in Kailali of Sudurpaschim Province.
Tented life is obviously not their choice, but a compulsion. The families who survived the monsoon-triggered landslides in the past two consecutive years are bound to live in tents as they await government support for rehabilitation.
The families are trying to beat all the odds for their survival as they have been fighting to get their very basic needs addressed. Following the landslides, they have found no way out but to move to Panerugadha and Taggada forest areas to spend their days under makeshift tents.
According to rural municipality Chair Chakra Bahadur Bogati, the Federal and Province governments have been urged to rehabilitate the affected people. They have lost all their belongings, including land, to the disasters. They are not in a situation to get back to the village.
"There is no possibility of the affected returning to their villages as the settlement has already been devastated by the disasters," said Bogati.
At some locations, the land just caved-in, leaving them nowhere to return to.
The local government has expressed its inability to seek a permanent way out of the problem as the number of displaced families is large.
A version of this article appears in the print on July 29, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
