Kavre, Jan. 30 -- Prakash Singtan has been homeless after the flooded Bagmati river swept away his house and farmland in ward 4 of Chanaute of Khanikhola Rural Municipality on September 29 last year. He has nowhere to go and no land left to build a house on. The four-member Singtan family has been languishing under a flimsy tarpaulin tent set up on the land temporarily provided by a villager.

"It was around 4am. It had been raining heavily. We somehow crossed the river with our children. The floods washed away our house and all the farmland," Prakash recalled the disaster. The Singtan family had been living on the Bagmati riverbank for years, but nature's fury made them homeless, landless.

"The house and all my land were swept away. We ...