Victims of last month’s Pyuthan landslides languish in school buildings

Authorities concerned have offered assurances but haven’t done anything to resettle the displaced victims yet, they say.

Uma Budhathoki Magar, a nursing mother in her mid-thirties, has been staying at a local school building in Airawati Rural Municipality-4 for the past month. After a landslide damaged her house on October 5, she had no alternative but to take shelter at the community school building. The landslide left the whole Tigrapatal village, Magar’s native, at high risk.