18 Families Displaced by Landslide Live in Temporary Camp for Five Years

Nawalparasi. Eighteen families displaced by a landslide in Hupsekot Rural Municipality-5, Baghkhor, Nawalparasi (Bardghat Susta East) have been forced to live in a temporary camp for five years. After the severe landslide on Asar 24, 2078 BS, the settlement was displaced and they were moved to a safe location, but the process of permanent resettlement has not yet been finalized.

Initially, after the landslide, the displaced took shelter in schools and community buildings. They are now living in temporary shelters built in a small field in Jukepani, Hupsekot-1. Their daily lives are spent in narrow rooms made of blocks and tin, with limited open space and a lack of basic infrastructure.