Ban Sanghu,pidit haru laai sarkaar sanga dherai apeksha. BAN SANGHU: Six days after landslide struck Sindhupalchowk villages, killing at least 156 persons, the survivors are facing a tough time. The displaced don’t know when they’ll be rehabilitated, children have no idea when their classes will restart and there are those who have lost means livelihood, along with their kin. The displaced residents of Mangkha, Ramche and Jure villages want to know from the government when will they be rehabilitated, as their homes have turned to rubble. Nearly 100 houses were destroyed in the landslide that tore down a Tamang tole, buried a roadside Ban Sanghu market on the banks of the Sunkoshi River and an artificial lake was created when the river was blocked by the landslide, inundating 30 houses in the area. With no rehabilitation plans in the offing, the affected families have no choice but to take shelter in neighbouring villages. “The government should rehabilitate us at the earliest,” Ram Tamang, who lost seven of his family, told THT. Others of his community also want to return to their village. A few Shrestha families, who decided to migrate to urban areas for good, feel that uprooting themselves from their ancestral land will not be easy. Durga Shrestha, who lost his dwelling in Ban Sanghu, transported his belongings today to Kathmandu. Apart from rehabilitation, it’s the future of their children the survivors are worried about. More than 150 schoolchildren have not been attending school as Ban Sanghu secondary school was buried in the landslide, along with 30 students, whose bodies are still trapped in the debris. “The government must act for an early resumption of classes,” Kabita Chalise of Grade X demanded. Then there are families who have not only lost their kin but everything else and are having a tough time making ends meet. “We have no land left for cultivation,” Sukaman Tamang of Ramche said. The government has provided over a hundred bereaved families with Rs 40,000 each to meet funeral expenses, while a few others who were rendered homeless have been given immediate relief of Rs 5,000. But it needs to do much more to bring any semblance of normalcy in the lives of the survivors of Saturday’s tragedy.