More than 50 families of Jhapa Rural Municipality-2 Sugabathan have returned home after the flood, but they are living by hanging tarpaulins on the road because they cannot live safely.
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A house built with mud over a bamboo image is no longer habitable. The grains kept at home are inedible because they are wet with water. Although the house looks intact, there is nothing left inside — everything is soaked with water. Finally, they are sitting on the flood-affected streets of Jhapa.
We cook and eat collectively on the street. Our house is on the road," says Dharamalal Hemaram of Sugabathan, Jhapa Rural Municipality-2, "There is nothing left of the grain left at home. At first, after we were displaced by the flood, we took shelter in a nearby school and returned three days later.'
According to him, more than 50 families of Sugabathan are still on the streets. Some are cooking, some are sleeping. This settlement on the banks of the Kankai Mai was flooded early last Sunday morning when a dam to the north of the village collapsed. It drowned not only Sugathan, but the entire Jhapa Rural Municipality. Thousands of families were displaced.
At present, most of the displaced families have returned home but have not been able to stay inside. They are forced to hang tripal on the road. The relief distributed by various individuals and organizations has become the basis of their survival — along with the mats provided by the district administration.
'Rather than associations, we are eating pulses, rice and vegetables given by different people. "Yesterday, the CDO office also gave two mats for laying with dal, rice, potato, onion, etc.," Hemaram said, "So far, the relief has been subsisting on dal and rice. There is no grain left in the house. What to eat now? Where will you live?
Although the district administration and security agencies are saying that the situation in the district is normalizing and the displaced people have returned home, their real residence is still on the streets.
