The Monitoring teams of National Human Rights Commission deployed in three districts have drawn the attention of the Government to immediately make an arrangement of shifting the human settlement to safe places to evade the possible landslide due to cracks emerged in land due to the earthquake.
A monitoring team led by Commissioner Govinda Sharma Paudyal has drawn the attention of the government to shift the human settlement elsewhere at a safe place from Parapcha and Harkapur VDCs of Okhaldhunga, Khimti and Bhuji VDCs including a few wards under Ramechhap district.
The team was in field monitoring in Ramechhap, Okhladhunga and Solukhombu districts.
The Commission has speculated that with the monsoon approaching at the doorstep, these earthquake affected settlement would face the ordeal of landslide if they are shifted well in time. The monitoring team has found that the earthquake affected victims in most districts are compelled to live under open sky as they are not yet provided with necessary tarpaulin.
Since all the communities do not have access to the relief and rehabilitation program in earthquake affected districts, the Commission has also drawn the attention of the government towards this. The Commission has also drawn the attention of the concerned authorities to make immediate arrangement of helicopter to transport the relief materials to the places which are geographically inaccessible.
The monitoring team has found that the earthquake affected patients being treated under tarpaulin because Ramechhap district based public health office together with the x-ray machine has been completely destroyed.
The Commission has also drawn the attention of the Government to make arrangement of the safe shelter for the injured inmates of district prisons of the Okhaldhunga and Ramechhap following the damage caused to them due the massive earthquake.
Mohna Ansari
Commissioner and Spokesperson