"My son is taking his 12th exam. We have kept him at his aunt's house because he failed the exam. My daughter has been disabled since she was a child. The hut she used to live in was demolished. She used to support her family by painting. She also lost her job. Now I don't know what to do to survive," says Lal Bahadur Limbu, who is staying at a hotel in Kathmandu's Naya Bus Park after driving a bulldozer through a squatter settlement.

He was 63 years old and lived with his family in a slum in Sinamangal. There are four people in his family. He used to work as a painter. He used to earn money from that. Not only him, but his wife Sangeeta Limbu also used to wash dishes wherever she found work to earn money.

The life of Sangeeta and Lal Bahadur, who were crushed by poverty, was not ordinary. Living in a hut in the slum of Sinamangal, they had to think about what to eat in the evening on days when they did not get work. Life was going on as usual. Lal Bahadur and Sangeeta were struggling together. Even though they did not study much, they were educating their 19-year-old son Sushil up to plus two. They have an 11-year-old daughter. She cannot speak. She cannot walk properly either. They were doing everything they could for their daughter. Sangeeta and Lal Bahadur were dreaming of their son's happiness in their hut after he graduated and got a good job. But, where did life always go as planned? It was a few days ago. 'A notice has been received that the land where the squatters are living will be vacated within three days,' a rumor spread in the place where they were staying.

Lal Bahadur was not particularly affected by that. 'Every government has said the same thing when it comes. This government has also said the same thing as the others. How can they make helpless people like us homeless,' he said.

He told his son and wife about the rumor he had heard at home. Sangeeta also took the matter lightly, just like Lal Bahadur. However, his son, who was preparing for the Plus Two exams, was frustrated. 'This government is not like the previous one. If they evict us, how will I take the exam?' Where are we going?’ his son had said. 

Two days later, without saying anything, Lal Bahadur’s son had said it. 

Lal Bahadur, his wife and son together started packing their belongings in a hurry.  ‘What can we do, there will be such pain in life.  There is never anyone who has nothing.  Everything happened to us at once,’ he said.  While packing his belongings in sacks and zebra bags, Lal Bahadur said that he was overwhelmed.  In a short time, a dozer arrived. 

‘The hut he had built collapsed. For us, who have nothing, that hut was a palace. What can we do now, there is nowhere to stay,’ he said emotionally.  After his house collapsed, he had reached the stadium with his belongings and registered his name. From there, arrangements were made to stay at a hotel in the new bus park. He, his daughter and his wife have been living in that place.

By the time we went to report on Wednesday, a total of 55 squatters were staying in the hotel. His son is staying at his grandmother's house to take his Plus Two exams. Lal Bahadur says, "A day before my son's exams, a bulldozer was driven into the house," he said. "I'm also worried about how I'll do in the exam." His 11-year-old daughter is not accepting the new place.

He complained that he hasn't been getting much sleep in the evenings for the past few days. "The government quickly had to separate who is a squatter and who is not. And it would have been better if they had understood the pain and suffering of the squatters and given them shelter," he said. "Now, there's no point in saying that there's work to be done." If we just leave it there without doing anything, the thought that we have no choice but to live on the road will play in our minds, and we will not be able to sleep.