Locals are vacating even the villages that were making progress with road accessibility, electricity and increased income fearing next earthquake.
A large number of people are moving either to the district headquarters or to the Tarai areas.
According to them, their lands have developed several cracks and their houses have been turned into rubble by the earthquake.Sujata Baral of Basheshwor VDC-8, one of the displaced, has shifted to plains from the hills after her house was destroyed in the earthquake.
She told Republica that all the houses in her village were destroyed in the earthquake.
"Many of us, who could afford to shift, have already left the village," said she. "I don't see the village prospering in future as disaster has left us devastated."
"The villages are almost devoid of people. Most of them have already left for the district headquarters," said another local Matrika Baral of Basheshwor.
In Basheshwor VDC alone, homes belonging to 60 percent of families have been destroyed completely and even those still standing are not safe to live in.
Locals from more than 25 VDCs, which were severely affected by the recent earthquake and ongoing aftershocks, are leaving to safer places in and outside the district. Most of those villages are situated in the hilly areas of the district.
Only a few families are still staying in the areas erecting makeshift tents. They are doubtful that their villages affected by the earthquake would ever come back to a normal state.
Although the villages were seeing some prosperity fueled by remittances, the recent disaster has ruined them, said some displaced people.
"We are now worried about landslides in the upcoming monsoon," said Ramesh Bhandari, a quake victim, of Majhuwa VDC. "The rains will certainly add to our woes."
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