Dalawa residents waiting for land ownership certificates for over six decades

Every monsoon, they are forced to seek higher ground and live under tarpaulins for months to escape floods.

More than a hundred families displaced by the Koshi river over the decades were relocated to Dalawa in Hanumannagar Kankalini Municipality-14 of Saptari district. Despite enduring annual floods for more than 60 years, they remain distressed by their inability to secure land ownership certificates. Before the Koshi Agreement, signed between Nepal and India in 1954, and the subsequent construction of the Koshi Barrage in 1962, their settlement was situated 500–600 metres east of its current location.