The poor Dalit Musahar family is at risk of cold and cold waves. The Musahar family has been in trouble for a few days due to extreme cold.

Baswariya Rural Municipality-3 is a village of Musahar Majhi under Nakaima. In that settlement, about 45 families are living in thatched huts.

At other times, the conditions are normal, but they suffer greatly from the rains and the cold of winter. The children and the elderly of this settlement are living a very healthy life. In the same settlement, Jonita Majhi, who is 10 days pregnant, is spending her days and nights with great difficulty.

As the cold was increasing day by day, she complained that she did not even have warm clothes for the newborn and herself. She has made a bed by spreading straw in a place covered with straw that can barely fit four people. Her 10-day-old baby is also sleeping in it.

His mother-in-law Jitni Devi Majhi said that the family, who had to do daily wage labor, could not even go out due to the cold. 'The cold of the ground also comes.' Sutkeri Majhi said, 'Dew keeps leaking from above. Driving is also not good. The heart is pierced by the cold straw that penetrates through the hole of the bamboo tray.'

Like Jonita, 21-year-old Punita Majhi from the same village also gave birth to a daughter as her third child last October. In the beginning, when the cold was less, he was cut off day and night, but when the cold wave started, he had a problem. She complained that the baby couldn't sleep because of the cold. He said that he has been sick many times due to cold. 

Punita's husband Pannilal Majhi and father-in-law Harindra Majhi have also reached Punjab for work. Punita said that she hopes that her husband will earn and bring her delicious food and that she and her children will wear warm clothes. 

Bina Majhi, a 20-year-old woman, is sitting with her one-month-old son in the shack of a small house in the other corner of the settlement. "If you keep it on the ground, the baby will cry because of the cold," she said, "if you put it on the chest, it will be warm and it won't cry." She said that her son, who was born at the end of November, could not even eat a full stomach of milk.

She said that due to the cold, other members of the family could not go to work, so she also had to stay hungry at night, saying that there was no milk to feed the baby. Even husbands without husbands are working as sugarcane cutters in Punjab.

The condition of other mothers and babies who have given birth after the onset of cold weather in this settlement is the same. It is difficult for everyone to do even the daily necessities, let alone warm clothes. The men of most of the families have gone to Punjab, India to do agricultural work. Sita Devi Majhi, a ward member of Baswaria Rural Municipality-3, said that they earn something every three to four months and return home.

Until then, the family is forced to stay hungry and thirsty, she said. Sita Devi, a member of the ward, says that Banibuto is the only source of life in this settlement, as no one will believe them even if they are from poor families. She said that drowning in water during rains and suffering from cold in winter is the regular fate of this settlement. 

Other families in the settlement have also said that they are trying to beat the cold by snoring day and night. Local Manwa Devi Majhi lamented that winter is coming for them who do not even have proper shelter. Last year, he said that the winter was coming with the warm clothes given by some social organizations.

According to Lakshumania Devi, when the local municipality gives relief to the poor, the rich also ask for it and do not give it. They also beg because they go to the village municipality to beg. He complains that they are returning the same to you as to how to give it to you. She said that the poor Musahar family is taking measures to avoid the cold in a difficult way saying that they are under attack from everywhere.

Since the rural municipality had arranged for relief in the past, the village chairman Ramsinghasan Rai informed that this time it was a bit late. Saying that the situation of the Musahar family was not known, Chairman Rai expressed his commitment to understand and provide relief if such a situation occurs. He complained that the opposition and the wealthy did not allow him to work on the scheme brought for the poor. 

'The houses of five families in this village were destroyed by fire last March,' he said, 'We recommended and sent them. Later, after doing many things in politics, even they did not get the money to build a house that they would get through the district calamity. In the beginning, the municipality gave 10/10 thousand in cash and some food.' He said that there is a widespread tendency to defame Madhesh by not allowing them to work and not doing it.