November 9: Ramita Thapa of Nalgad Municipality-3 grabbed her two kids and ran out of the house when the earthquake struck in the night of November 3. In the course of rushing out, her leg was injured. She is now living under a tarpaulin tent on the side of the road at local Nayabasti in Khalanga, the district headquarters, after her house collapsed due to the quake.    
Thapa is so much traumatized that she is now troubled by hallucination as if her body and the ground is shaking all the time. She cannot venture to go beyond the open road. Her 14-year-old daughter is also traumatized after the earthquake. She cries 'Quake! Quake!' in her sleep.    
Most of the dwellers of the district headquarters, who are in mental trauma, are homeless and spending the day and night under makeshift tents on the road side. The people from outside the district headquarters, who had been living in rented rooms, are also in problem after the houses they had been living in were destroyed in the disaster.    
"The tarpaulin and other relief materials are distributed in the name of house owners while those living in rented houses are deprived of the relief materials," lamented Milan Chadara of Thaple, Bheri Municipality-3.    
He shared that when he went to the local ward office asking for a tarpaulin, he was turned away by the officials saying that tarpaulins are distributed only to the house owners. He said people like him with addresses outside the district headquarters are in problem as they did not get the tarpaulin and relief materials. Milan's family is living in the open ground. They are exasperated for not getting relief even though they have been begging for multiple times. They complain that each appeal is turned down.    
Ganesh Thapa, another person from outside the district headquarters, who, like Milan, was living in rent with his family, echoed Milan. They are both sharing similar distress.    
Ganesh said that he at last got a tarpaulin after he approached Suresh Sunar, the Chief District Officer of Jajarkot, and related his agony.    
Jhalak Malla of Thaple said that the names of people like him from outside the district headquarters and living in rented rooms were also collected as eligible persons for relief, but they were not handed the relief later on saying that their names are not included in the list of eligible persons. "This has really, really saddened us in this difficult time," he rued. His family has not been given tarpaulin till date.    
Many earthquake survivors in Barekot are living in similar plight as they have not got the relief supplies. Prem Bohara of Barekot Rural Municipality-4 said that he no longer feels like going for work as the aftershocks have been rattling Jajarkot. According to him, mostly children and the elderly people are terrorized by the disaster. The children are mentally traumatized after their homes and schools were badly damaged. They are worried about their studies.    
The 6.4 magnitude earthquake has impeded Jajarkot's development when the district had gradually started catching the development path.    
Meanwhile, in the neighbouring district of Rukum West too people have complained of not getting the relief materials. -- RSS