After the house collapsed in the earthquake, the family of 7 members of Amar Bahadur Pariyar of Bheri Municipality-1 Thaple of Jajarkot is earning their livelihood on a small terrace of 5 meters length and 5 meters width. "Two winters have been spent in this mountain, it has started raining, and now the second winter will also pass," he said.

Two weeks ago, after the tin of the tahara was blown away by the wind, he has protected the tahara with old clothes and tripal. He complains that his wife Lalsari along with his 3 sons and 2 daughters keep getting sick with diarrhea, cold, fever and swelling of limbs due to poor management of the stay. 

After it started raining daily for two weeks, a landslide has started to fall from the top of the temporary tower of Ghanshyam Mahar of Nalgad Municipality-1. "If there is heavy rain, there is a risk that the whole family will be buried in a landslide," he said.

Last year on October 17th, an earthquake occurred with Ramidanda of Barekot Rural Municipality as the center. Due to the delay in the reconstruction work by the federal government, the earthquake victims are forced to earn a living. Due to the delay in the detailed damage assessment (DDA) for the reconstruction of the earthquake-affected areas, the reconstruction work has been confused. According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, the DDA of nearly 38,000 houses has been completed in the first phase. For which 118 technicians including 20 from the authority were deployed. Ram Bahadur KC, spokesperson of the authority, said that they worked for about a month. "Another team has been assigned for the DDA of the remaining households. After the completion of the DDA work, the contract work for the reconstruction will proceed," he said.

According to the authority, the earthquake damaged about 76 thousand houses in Jajarkot and Rukum West. Out of that, about 33 thousand beneficiaries have been established in Rukum West and 43 thousand beneficiaries in Jajarkot. Spokesperson KC said that about 38,000 houses are yet to be DDA. According to him, for the second phase of DDA, 85 engineers from Midwest University have been assigned to the earthquake-affected areas. The authority has estimated the cost of DDA at Rs 19 crore.

People's representatives say that there is a doubt that the reconstruction work will start this financial year due to the delay in the work of DDA. "The federal government has been neglecting the construction of temporary housing," said Dumbar Bahadur Rawat, head of Nalgad Municipality of Jajarkot, "The DDA has not yet been completed, and if the situation remains the same, the reconstruction work will not be possible in the next three years."

The federal government had introduced a program to give money in two installments at the rate of 25/25 thousand rupees to the earthquake victims for the construction of temporary housing. But Mayor Rawat said that the budget has not yet arrived. According to him, the work of DDA has not been completed in the 6th, 8th and 10th wards of Nalgad, while DDA has been completed in about 4,500 houses in other wards. Badri Pant, ward president of Nalgad-4, said that even after almost two months have passed since the completion of the DDA, the earthquake victims are panicking as the reconstruction work has not yet started. This  It is certain that the drought will pass in Tahara, it is not yet certain how many Barkha will be cut in Tahara by the earthquake-affected people,' he said, 'Since the reconstruction of earthquake-affected areas is not included in the next year's budget, even if the reconstruction work is started, it is certain that it will be stalled due to lack of budget.'

3 months ago, the government has established an office of District Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Project Implementation Unit in Jajarkot for reconstruction in Rukum West and Jajarkot. During the inauguration of the office on 25th of February last, Home Minister Ramesh Akhtar said that the reconstruction will be done on time and there will be no shortage of budget. But neither the office has the required manpower nor the budget. Rakeshraj Mishra, head of local infrastructure development project office located in Surkhet, has been given the responsibility of unit head . "Only the office was opened, nothing else was done," he said, "Due to lack of authority, only Surkhet and Jajarkot were left." But he informed that the employees have become lazy due to lack of responsibility.  

According to Jajarkot Chief District Officer Mekh Bahadur Mangrati, after the DDA report is prepared, the local disaster management committee will decide to increase the number of beneficiaries through the local level. After that, the process of disbursement of the budget will start only after the District Disaster Management Committee makes a decision and requests the required amount to the Disaster Management Authority. The federal government has allocated 21 billion rupees for reconstruction in the budget of the current financial year. According to KC, the spokesman of the authority, the Ministry of Finance has sent 3 billion 15 million rupees to the account of the authority in the first phase for reconstruction. 

Suzan Vick of Saniveri-2 in Rukum West said that the victims who spent the second winter in the tower because of the delay in reconstruction are sure to spend the next winter in the tower. "The suffering of cold is just ending, we have to spend another winter in the leaking roof," he said, "How much more suffering will we have to suffer until a permanent house is built?"

Engineer Naveen BC said that the work of DDA has been delayed due to geographical difficulties, the problem of not finding beneficiaries, and the non-cooperation of public representatives. According to him, in some places the houses with minor damage have been demolished and some have built their own houses. "Due to the lack of fixed criteria, there was also a problem in the classification of damage," he said, "DDA's work has been delayed because 3/4 of the family's damage has to be assessed and details entered in one house."