Kathmandu, Feb. 8 -- These days, Singha Bahadur Tamang, 66, from ward 5 of Gaurishankar Rural Municipality in Dolakha district, works as a labourer at a road construction site to provide for his family.

He would not have to work as a physical labourer at this age had last monsoon's landslide not buried his land.

Tamang, a grandfather of five, complained that the families of his two sons left the village and migrated to the district headquarters and Kathmandu following the disaster.

"My family and I would have been busy growing crops had our arable land not been buried by the landslide," complained Tamang. "I could not stop my children from leaving the village, as they do not see any future here."

Gaurishankar, a remote rural municipal...