The 83-year-old Daba Sherpa Lama is currently busy writing religious books. When the house was swept away by a landslide, the only book of the Vedas that he was able to take out was eaten by worms and became illegible, so he prepared paper himself and started writing. After completing daily tasks such as eating, gathering firewood, doing other household chores, participating in long pujas at someone's house, he engages in this work.
Coal is ground into a stone and made into a bamboo kiln and a pen made of wood pieces.
They make ink in batukoma by mixing charcoal and bitter gourd. He writes with a sinko (pen) on it. He said that a book written on paper made from Argeli will last for years if not eaten by insects.
His wife Daba and himself have a family of only two people. "This is our Veda, we have to preserve it for the next generation, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, so I may be able to start writing it now until June," he said .
84-year-old Premchoki Sherpa has been living alone at home. She can't do anything other than cooking and eating. After receiving the social security allowance given by the government, she goes to the narrow market, which takes about an hour, and brings food such as rice and chiura and eats it. The sons and daughters who are nearby have been taking care of them all the time .
'First we were old people sitting . The old man used to weave bhakari, doko, dalo, I used to help . We used to take it to the Ram Duvali market and sell it. Even after my old age, I lived alone with the trust of my sons and daughters. Landslide destroyed the house. "I have come here and stayed alone," Sherpa said.
62 families were displaced in the first week of June 2080 due to a landslide from Odak in Maivakhola Rural Municipality-4 Sanghu.
According to Village Chairman Vijayprakash Banem, 65 families, including three more whose village was at risk due to the landslide, were kept in schools and public buildings and were made temporary housing on the land of the stadium. Having spent two winters in temporary housing, they are living in misery because they are unable to return to their old settlement.
They have their own pains in temporary housing . Karsang Sherpa, who has a family of 18 including son, daughter-in-law, daughter and grandchildren, complains that all the family members have not been able to meet for two years. "There are 18 people in the family, we all used to gather in Lhosar once a year," he said, "Now that there is no place to gather, everyone in the family has not been able to gather." Karsang says that after the landslide made it impossible to stay at home, the family was separated and the children were farming and shepherding.
After three months of displacement, the municipality made a temporary house and handed it over to the concerned family. 62 families from Ward 4 Odak, 2 from Tamrang and 1 from Ward 3 Sanghu have been kept here.
5592 thousand 5592,000 was collected through donor agencies, organizations and individuals at the call of the rural municipality for the construction of their temporary housing. Toll development organization, school and community members collected 68 lakh rupees with labor donation.
It is mentioned in the data of the rural municipality that 15 million 53 thousand people have been displaced including 2.6 million 60 thousand. 36 for families of up to five people, 23 for up to eight people and 6 temporary houses for up to 12 people have been built.
There are 36 toilets for each family and group. 18 streams were constructed . Chief of the District Coordination Committee, Chiring Lama, says that it is a model work of the district to provide housing for the disaster-affected families.
"Once the Red Cross built an integrated settlement in the then Lingkhim village, this is what happened after that," he said .
Chandra Tamang, the spokesperson of the rural municipality, said that the municipality provided a bed, gas stove, electricity, and water to the displaced people. Arrangements were also made for two months of food for the time being. The management of wearing and laying clothes is done by the displaced themselves.
Since there is no situation for the displaced to return to their old place, they have to arrange permanent housing, so the municipality has coordinated with the federal and state governments, studied the land and conducted the purchase process with the landowner and conducted a study by a geologist . According to
spokesperson Tamang, the municipality has started the process of building an integrated settlement. Laxmimaya Gomden, acting chief administrative officer of the rural municipality, informed that 60 million rupees have been allocated for the partnership.
There is a provision for the government to provide 3 lakh rupees per family for the management of disaster victims. In which the union and the state should share 40-40 and the local level should share 20 percent of the amount . President Banem claims that the insufficient budget will be allocated as soon as the union and the state allocate it.
"Among those who applied for permanent residence, 63 families are Sherpa and two families are from Limbu community," said Banem, "there is a need to come up with a housing construction plan so that they also have jobs." So far, a team including representatives of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority has conducted a geological study of the housing construction site and prepared a report.
Maivakhola village executive has also approved the study report. However, the rural municipality complains that the authority and the provincial government are not ensuring the budget.
