Nepalese survivors of the monsoon floods that ravaged Nepal at the weekend criticized the government on Tuesday ( Oct 1 ) for underreporting their efforts to help them during a disaster that claimed the lives of at least 218 people.
During the rain season from June to September, deadly floods and landslides are common throughout South Asia, but researchers claim climate change is worsening the situation.
Over the weekend, villages in distant areas of the Himalayan nation that were still awaiting reduction efforts were also inundated in the capital of Kathmandu.
” There is no route, so no one has come”, Mira Houston, who lives in a town in Kavre area to Kathmandu’s south, told AFP.
” Even if they do, those who died are already dead and the harm is done. All they will do is provide sympathies, what will they do”?
The poorest citizens of Kathmandu who live in careless neighborhoods along the banks of the Bagmati River and its tributaries, are disproportionately hit by the storms.
Guy Kumar Rana Magar, a 49-year-old tenement resident, told AFP that after their houses were flooded, authorities had provided shelter for him and his neighbors at a college.
He claimed, however, that they had been made to leave when they were ready to go back to their homes when the class reopened for lessons.
” We are so close to the chair of the state. What will they do about others if they ca n’t take care of the poor this close? he said.