Achham, July 6 -- Mithu Badi, 48, has a hard time sleeping at night during the monsoon. Her home in Pulbazar, a settlement in ward 4 of Sanfebagar Municipality, is close to the Budhiganga river, which swells every year with heavy rain.

"When the river rises, the water enters our house," Badi says. "We spend nights outside in the rain. There's nowhere else to go."

Badi adds that the problem has persisted for years. "Last year, the entire market area got flooded," she says. "We begged the authorities to relocate us, but no one listened."

Pulbazar, one of the oldest settlements in the municipality, is home to several families, including three from the marginalised Badi community. For them, every monsoon brings fresh trauma-displacement, l...