Residents of Mechipari located in Mechinagar-15 could not sleep last Saturday night due to continuous rain. As it was raining heavily throughout the night, they were afraid that the Mechi flood would enter the village and wash away the settlement itself.

It was not even possible to see that the night time was too dark. We stayed up all night. I was very afraid that the river would wash away the village," Lokiram Baske, a local, remembered that night, "Ours is a village that has been displaced many times before due to floods. There was a big fear that the same thing would happen this year.'

What was feared in the hearts of the locals, finally happened. The Mechi flood entered the village around 4 am on Sunday morning. The flood was increasing more and more. The river began to flow in the village. The villagers had no choice. She stayed at home with her children. Even after it became light, there was no sign of the flood receding. "The water was boiling in the eastern part. The west side is more crowded. where to go Who to plead with? There were some solutions, we took children and stayed at home," said Lokiram, "the water level was rising. We sat on the bed. We thought to ourselves that if it increased further, we would stay on the axis. There was not a house that was not flooded. Mechi Basic School, a school in the village, was also flooded. 

The flood was getting worse and there was no way out. He said that he felt relief only when the water level decreased a little after noon. "It started raining in the afternoon. Only then did we catch our breath," said Lokiram, "the house remained. However, there is nothing left of the vegetables and grain crops planted in the garden. Everything was washed away.' 

The flood water flowed from both the east and west sides of the village. About 200 meters east of the village is the Bharatpatti dam. The flood hit the dam and came towards the village. Water cannot go to India after crossing the dam. So the flood returned to the village," he said. 

Floods around, villages in the middle. Did not the security personnel come for rescue?, he said to the question, 'They rescued some people from the island next to Mechi. If the flood was bigger, they would have come towards us. However, no one has come to inquire about the condition of the people in the village.

There are about 35 families living in Sisaudangi, Gwalbasti and Zhadubasti villages of Mechipari, which are reached after crossing the Mechi river on the Nepal-India eastern border. The floods have disrupted the lives of the residents of Satar, Rajvanshi, Yadav, Munda, Gwal and other tribal communities. Now, even though the flow of the flood has decreased, there is no situation for mechi to come towards Nepal. At present, the local residents have only a few crops saved from the flood for food. However, there is a situation where we have to depend on India for vegetables and other things. Lokiram also reached the border Indian market Naya Haat only on Wednesday morning to buy pulses and vegetables. It is difficult to meet educated people in these villages, which are lagging behind in all infrastructures of development, and the Nepali language seems new. Residents of these settlements are also deprived of water, electricity, communication and other facilities.