Due to lack of housing options, Kavre locals are forced to risk living in the houses damaged by the floods and landslides that occurred in the second week of last October.
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Wherever you go, you leave the village, you don't see the city to hideIt is not my desire to build a big castleWhen will there be a roof over the broken walls?In the morning and in the evening, the stomach is full, when will the food be
43-year-old Bishnu Bahadur Tamang of Nangidanda Makhoria, located in Panauti Municipality-2, has the same situation as the one mentioned in the song 'Relko Bato 2', released by singer and composer Suraj Pandit 2 years ago. The landslide in the second week of last October destroyed his yard. Since there is no alternative, his family has been living in the same house for one and a half months.
You should be careful before stepping on the door. The step slips, there is fear of falling in a landslide. It should be avoided and repeated. It is difficult to protect children," he said. Vishnu's family, which survived the landslide in the yard, is still living in fear. Vishnu has two grandsons aged 13 months and 7 years. It is difficult to protect these children. "When we go out to work, we lock the children in the room. When we are here, we have to stay alone, adults are afraid to walk, it is more difficult for children," he said.
Because of fear, Vishnu has kept his little grandson and daughter-in-law in a room in Panauti market for a few days. "We can't leave our place, we don't have land or money to build another place," he said. Even that could not be done without money.'' Even after 1 month, the affected people have not received the amount. "We had heard that the government would help," he said, "Until now, we have not received it from anywhere." If we got relief from the government, we would have been safe even if we had put up a wall.'
From the hills of Nangi Naigaon located in Panauti-2, the surrounding mountains are seen to be torn apart. 62-year-old local Indra Prasad Acharya is living here in Dharap along with 10 families. He said that he sat under a tree near the house with great fear for a week after the landslide, but now he is staying at home. "Where to go, there is no place, it will take 1/2 hour to reach the city, I will go anyway, I will get tired of these things." Where to put them, we couldn't even leave them, we are living like this.'
Earlier there were 7 families living in Nangi Naigaon along with Indra Prasad. Due to the risk of floods in the second week of October, 6 other families of the village have already migrated. "I don't have any real estate except here, it is not possible to build in this place," he said. If you get it, you have to go.'
The family of 71-year-old Dallimaya Shrestha of Banepali tol located in Bethanchok Rural Municipality-3 has been living in a house damaged by landslides and floods for one and a half months. "Landslides hit from above, floods cut from below, the house is completely at risk," she said, "We are very afraid to live here, we stay here all day, we go to the old people's home across the river to sleep." She said she was worried about making it. She said, "Where are you going to go?" There is no land in other places, there is no money to buy land, it is not possible to live like this all the time.'
According to Bhagwan Adhikari, chairman of Bethanchok rural municipality, there are 282 displaced people in Banepali village of Ward-3 including 15 houses. He said that the municipality is making plans on how to manage high-risk settlements. Similarly, Panauti-2 Nayagaon, Maikhoria, Torikhoria, Roshi Bazar in Ward-12 and some areas of Kalanti, Thumki Danda in Ward-11 are at risk, Panauti Nagar Chief Ram Sharan Bhandari said. According to him, it seems that the slums that are at risk should be relocated. He said that the district disaster management committee, disaster authority and other agencies have been requested to study this matter and transfer the settlement as soon as possible.
The Disaster Management Committee meeting held on November 5 decided to request the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority and the Urban Development and Building Office for the geographical study of the risky settlements. The meeting decided to request all the local disaster management committees to identify the settlements that are uninhabitable due to the floods and need to be relocated and send the details. Even after 1 month of the said decision, the relevant body has not started any process for implementation.
District Disaster Management Committee Coordinator and Chief District Officer Umesh Kumar Dhakal said that this issue has been brought to the attention of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority and the Urban Development and Building Office many times. According to him, the higher authorities have been requested from here. He said that despite requesting the details of risky settlements from the local level, the office has not yet identified any details.
The disaster has caused a large number of human and material losses in 13 local levels of Kavre. No government agency in the district has the official details of how much damage has been done in which local level. "Official details have not come from the local level," said Prazia Dhakal, "Now the data entry work is going on, after compiling all the details from there, a lump sum information will be received. According to the preliminary information in the district office, 2844 houses were completely damaged and 6 thousand 46 houses were partially damaged has reached Similarly, it is mentioned in the preliminary details that 3,000 to 3,500 houses need to be reconstructed.
