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Dil Bahadur and Suntali Majhi of Fikkal Rural Municipality-6 Ratnavati, who were displaced after the floods in the Sunkoshi River swept away their farms on October 12, are now returning to Thatathlo and are living in a flooded hut.
They were displaced after nearly four plantations, houses and goods were swept away by the flood. Now they have come back and make a roof on the pile of sand and make a living. They have made huts by putting plastic roofs on the wood brought by the flood on the river bank.
Maji couple with three Lalabalas spend the day as usual, but at night when Sunkoshi sleeps, they startle from time to time. After the flood started coming closer to the house after cutting the fields, they climbed the hill with lalabala and said that they could not do anything except to see that everything was completely washed away by the flood. Suntali said, "The flood that came during the day washed away the farm, but the lives were spared. If the flood came at night, there would be no one left."
"I had to sit on the hill and see with my own eyes that all the goods in the house and the barn were washed away. I never knew that there had been such a big flood in this place where my father lived," said Dil Bahadur, "We have nothing left except the five members of the family." He said that he celebrated Dasain by asking his neighbours. Now it is difficult to know how to run the daily life. The government gave us money to build a house, but we would have eaten it in misery,' said Majhi couple.
Another flood victim, Baburam Mishra, who came to inspect the flood and meet with the locals, complained to Shyam Ghimire, 'The farm has been washed away, what will the family of five eat now?' After being washed away by the flood of Sunkoshi, he is shocked to see the fields that have been washed away every day. Mishra, who bought the paddy field for Rs 1.7 lakh 7 years ago, said that the loan taken at that time has not yet been paid. "18 muri paddy fields are all barren," he said, "now what to eat, how to pay the debt?" All the fields that grow three crops of grain have been washed away.'
Hundreds of farmers have been displaced by floods in the 61 km Sunkoshi river coastal area from Khurkot to Ghurmi on the mid-hill highway. After 12 muri paddy fields were washed away, there was no way to eat anymore. "We are only old," she said, "daughter is married, one son has also passed away." So far, this farm has grown, now what will we eat?' She said that there is no other way except to plead with their government.
In Sindhuli, landslides have destroyed 857 hectares of paddy crops, according to government data. Out of that, only in Golanjor and Fikkal, the rice crop planted in 75 hectares has been completely damaged by the Sunkoshi and other rivers. Pragya Leela Prasad Sharma said that the relief distribution was started by adopting the policy that no one should miss out on the relief, and no one should repeat. "Relief distribution has started through a one-door system," he said, "relief will be given to those whose crops have been damaged and fields washed away as per the guidelines."
