The floods, landslides and inundation that occurred with heavy rains from October 10 to 13 last year, before the onset of the monsoon, devastated the lives of people in Bagmati, Koshi and Madhesh provinces.

After the flood damaged the road and the concrete bridge of Khairenighat and the suspension bridge of Belghari, the relationship with Sindhuli of Kopthe village of Khandadevi rural municipality-1 of Ramechhap, which is a Majhi settlement on the banks of Sunkoshi river, was severed . Kopthe is a village of about 100 houses, which is located in the border area with Sindhuli, so one has to go to Sunkoshipari for shopping of daily consumables, education and health services. The

incident is from last year, the Sunkoshi river was not able to be properly drained even for two weeks after the flood. A woman from Kopthe village had to be taken to the health post at Ratmata, Sunkoshi rural municipality-3 of Sindhuli after she suffered from labor pains. Local youth were forced to take risky options as they could not go to night even by walking due to the washed away roads and bridges. Brought two tubes of the vehicle . On top of that, bring two pieces of bamboo and plywood and tie them. A woman in labor was placed on the ply and another woman was placed to hold her. Also, another woman also got caught in the tube. Four other youths were sitting on the four corners of the tube and pushing the 'pedal'. On October 12th, a flood came and they dragged the gold chest that could not be washed and brought it to the health center.

"We kept the woman who was suffering from labor pains at home because the road was broken, the health of the mother and the unborn child were at risk, so we had to make alternative arrangements to rescue them," local driver Manav Majhi, who shared the video on Facebook, told Kantipur .

On 1st June 1978, a video went viral on social media on the fourth day of Melamchi river flooding in Sindhupalchok. In the video, 11 families of Helambu Rural Municipality-1, Timbu, fled to save their lives as soon as they found out about the flood, but they were begging for help as they did not get any relief materials or safe shelter from anywhere for four days. Asha Gurung, who started speaking by identifying herself as Timbuwasi, said that she was forced to make a video together with the locals because she did not get help from anyone even after four days of being displaced.

Similarly, she also requested that pregnant women who have entered the month of childbearing are confused and convey their voice to the government and stakeholders. "Three-four people are pregnant, they are very confused and scared, we kindly request you to send this video to the government and organizations as soon as possible," she said in the video.

Pregnant and postpartum women are at high risk of monsoon-related disasters every year. These are only representative cases.

According to the 'Monsoon Preparedness and Response National Action Plan, 082' announced by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority on Wednesday, it has been estimated that 36,000 women in the reproductive age group (15 to 49 years) will be affected by this year's monsoon. Similarly, 48,000 people with disabilities, 1,64,000 children and 4,15,000 senior citizens are projected to be affected.

Every year when the government prepares the monsoon disaster response action plan, there is a provision that women-headed households, single women, pregnant women, disabled people and senior citizens will get priority in rescue and relief . However, the tragedy of women in Kopthe and Timbu shows that the government's action plan is limited to paper.

Ram Bahadur KC, the spokesperson of the Disaster Management Authority, said that a mechanism has been made for immediate air rescue of pregnant and delivery women in order to avoid repeating the weakness of the previous year. "In order not to repeat the weakness in rescue, relief and priority as in previous years, we have created a mechanism for air rescue of pregnant and delivery women and immediate rescue through the Nepali Army under the Presidential Women's Upliftment Program," he said. The

that is most affected is that 80 percent of the total annual rainfall across the country occurs during the four months of monsoon from May 18 to October 14, and 20 percent of the rainfall occurs in the remaining eight months. Dinesh Prasad Bhatt, executive head of the authority, has said that an action plan has been passed for preparedness as it is predicted that there will be more rain than Sardar in this year's monsoon and damage will be caused.

Authority has estimated that 19 lakh 97 thousand 731 population of about 4 lakh 57 thousand 145 households will be affected by Mansunjanya disaster this year. It is estimated that more than half of the total population, i.e. 10 lakh 29 thousand women (52 percent) will be affected, while the affected male population is 969 thousand people. 

According to the Monsoon Preparedness and Response National Action Plan released by the authority on Wednesday, the residents of Lumbini will be the most affected by this year's monsoon. 5 lakh 23 thousand 656 population of 1 lakh 19 thousand 830 households of Lumbini and least 1 lakh 27 thousand 308 population of 29 thousand 132 households of Karnali province will be affected .

Similarly, Bagmati has a population of 327 thousand 376 in 74 thousand 914 households, Gandaki has a population of 287 thousand 107 in 65 thousand 699 households, Koshi has a population of 275 thousand 867 in 63 thousand 127 households, Madhesh has a population of 28 thousand 687 in 52 thousand 331 households, Sudurpaschim has a population of 27 thousand 730 in 52 thousand 112 households. It is estimated that the population will be affected .

Similarly, 5 hundred disaster preparedness and response units have been designated . According to the action plan, 10 thousand 85 police personnel will be on standby for search and rescue. Similarly, 277 heavy equipment including dozers, excavators and 12 sets of belay bridges have been kept in readiness.

Monsoon-related disasters such as floods, landslides and other monsoon disaster awareness campaigns, pre-warning about potential infectious diseases, and provision of mobile towers in case of damage to telephone towers due to floods and landslides have also been reported by the authority.

24-hour weather room

Similarly, the Department of Water and Meteorology will operate a 24-hour weather room . 1155 toll-free service will be operated for the general public during monsoon with the aim of issuing emergency weather bulletins in special weather conditions, issuing three-day and five-day weather forecast bulletins in special conditions of heavy, very heavy and very heavy rains, sending early warning messages to the public in the main river watershed for flood alert, and providing flood warnings.