The locals in northern villages of Dolakha are facing an acute shortage of everyday items like salt, cooking oil and match boxes with obstructions even in the pedestrian routes.
Landslides triggered by the catastrophic earthquake of April 25 and recurrent aftershocks have created obstructions along the route to Singati Bazaar, a trade hub for 22 VDCs in Northern Dolakha.Ananda Prasad Pokharel, lawmaker from Dolakha onstituency-2, informed that the grocery shops in the village have run out of stocks of basic items and they are unable to replenish as roads remain blocked.
Due to lack of lighter and match boxes, locals are forced to cook food by borrowing firewood from each other.
"Even the roads from one VDC to another are completely blocked. We borrow pieces of burning wood from neighbors to light fire at our own homes," informed a local teacher Kumar Gurung.
The government helicopters are distributing only a limited amount of relief materials and food in the quake-hit villages.
The locals are already worried about possible famine in the village as even the mills are out of operation in lack of diesel fuel.
On the other hand, some people have been displaced from the village after their lands developed cracks.
Locals of Gotang, Najing, Thadebari, Padambari, Chokte, Thadoswara and Lamjing villages in Ward No 1 have shifted to Dandaswara fearing landslides. Likewise, the entire villagers of Ward No. six have shifted to Siure.
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