The family of Hasta Bahadur Karki, who suffers from paralysis, is in turmoil after the hut collapsed.
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Hasta Bahadur Karki has reached the age of 70. He has been paralyzed for 12 years. He cannot move one part of his body.
He reached the stadium in Tripureshwor on Thursday afternoon, holding his wife's hand, leaning on a stick, to collect the records of the squatters. He noted that there were no land for three generations.
He had been living in the squatters' settlement in Balkhu for 20 years and was earning a living. He came to Kathmandu from Sankhuwasabha 40 years ago. While working as a painter in Kathmandu, a friend told him, 'A squatters' settlement is going to be established in Balkhu. To build a house.'
He did what his friend said. After building a bamboo house, he added a block. Now a dozer is running in that house.
'The goods are on the road, the children are waiting,' he said.
His wife Sita, sitting in the corner collecting the records, is remembering that house. With tears in her eyes, she said, ‘Grandma grew up there. Now that she is older, there is no house anymore. I remember everything we ate there.’
After the house collapsed, they are worried about where the family will go and what they will do.
Hasta Bahadur, who had to take medicine, stopped taking it due to lack of money. Now he has to leave his house too, he said, ‘The doctor had said that he should always take medicine, but he has not taken it for 6 months because he has no money,’ he says, ‘Now the house has also collapsed. I don’t know where they will take it or what they will do.’
