Asmita Damai of Krishnapur Municipality-1 Nigali is 46 years old. His family migrated from Sanfebagar area of Achham around 2022 and came here. Her family has moved four times since she got married at the age of 15/16.

Each time the wooden house was moved to a new place along with the camp. Asmita lived in Mumbai, India for a long time with her husband Suke Damai for employment. When she came home, she slept in the shed. Kamala Auji Damai, a relative of Deurani, who died during treatment after being bitten by a snake on Friday night, was sleeping in her neighborhood.

"My house is leaking, sister, I went to clean it saying that I will sleep in your shed, how can I say no," Asmita said, "The previous day I was sleepless because my grandson was sick, I went to bed early that day, Kamala came and found out that he was sleeping, after a while he started screaming that he was bitten by a snake and called the villagers to find the car." He was taken to Seti Provincial Hospital in Dhangadhi.

The house of Kamala, who died of snakebite, and the adjoining neighborhood . Photo: Bhawani Bhatt/Kantipur

 Asmita's camp has been demolished after Kamala died after being bitten by a snake in the camp. Asmita, who is also moving the house along with the house, is still in a dilemma, "Should we make another house or sleep inside the house?" She can't say that she can sleep inside the house. For a long time, his family has been working as a wage laborer in India and is now building a solid house. But the superstition that sleeping inside a concrete house will cause anger and evil has taken root in his mind. "We destroyed the barn, but the fear in my heart was not destroyed," she said, "Goddess and the people here had to destroy it too." His family members are also confused. On Sunday, Krishnapur Municipality instructed all ward offices to demolish Chhaupadi Goth within 15 days and said that action will be taken according to the law and a fine of 10,000 will be imposed if they are not demolished. "They want to destroy the slums, but how is our tradition destroyed?" Kamala's Jethani Rupa, who arrived home from Surat, India on Monday, said, "In India, we used to sleep inside the house, we didn't do that, here too now they want to destroy the slums, let's see what happens. Now we can't say that we can sleep inside the house." Last year also, the municipality demolished 4 slums in Kumgada of Ward 1 . Ward president Mohan Basnet said that in the Lower Paharia area of Ward 1, some settlements were demolished.

'The team that went to demolish the camp was beaten up and verbally abused,' said Basnet, the ward president, 'The camp that was destroyed was also rebuilt.' In Nigali, the houses are crowded together. Everyone's house looks like a neighborhood in the front or back. Even now, women are not in the mood to sleep indoors.

``After demolishing the camp, I am worried about how to live in the house,'' Kamala's neighbor Janki Thapa said, ``Kamala and I were menstruating together. Chief District Officer Laxman Dhakal has written to all the nine local levels of the district to carry out the campaign as a special campaign has to be conducted to end the traditional bad practice by demolishing Chhaupadi Goth.