106 households at high risk of landslide shifted to safer place
Chautara, July 9: As many as 106 households of six VDCs in Sindhupalchowk
district that were at high risk of landside following the April 25 quake have
been shifted to a safer place in the district itself.
According to
Bishwa Adhikari, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of the District Police
Office, Sindhuplachowk, in the first round of the relocation, locals at Selang,
Golche, Tangtang, Syaule, Batase and Jyamire VDCs were shifted to a public
place at Selang VDC-1.
In addition, the
District Natural Disaster Rescue Committee has provided 22 tents and 22
tarpaulin sheets to the impoverished families who were shifted to the safer
place for safety concerns.
A 26-member team
of the Nepalese Army, the Armed Police Force and Nepal Police were deployed to
help build makeshift shelters for them.
Similarly,
efforts had been made to shift some 100 households at Tangtang, Baramchi, Hajam
and Jalbire VDC, who were at risk of landslide, to Koiraladanda at Jalbire VDC
in the district, it was shared.