The Army has started the drive to identify genuine victims and remove the fake ones from Sunday. The real victims will be allowed to live in the tents until another arrangement is made."Earlier, we had no time to crosscheck the identities of people seeking shelter as we were busy in relief and rescue works immediately after the earthquake," said Colonel Prayog JB Rana, who led the camp management for quake victims in Tundikhel. "But now we are finding that a lot of bogus people have been taking benefits in the name of earthquake victims."
Out of the total 706 living in the temporary camps of Tundikhel, 350 have been identified as genuine quake victims, according to Colonel Prajog JBR.
"We will evict landless squatters, Indian nationals and others who have house and rented rooms," Rana told Republica. In the last three days alone, around 100 people have left Tundikhel.
According to the Nepal Army, 15 tents were vacated in the last three days, while fake victims from 54 tents will be evicted soon.
"When we ask for citizenship certificate, most fake victims tell us that it got buried or they just lost it," said Colonel Rana, adding, "The landless squatters and others have been notified to leave the area earliest as possible."
Army personnel in plainclothes had been gathering information on all those living at Tundikhel.
Meanwhile, some earthquake victims staying at Tundikhel complain that they have not been able to find rooms to move into. They have asked the authorities to give them a month to find alternative accommodation.
"We don't enjoy living here," said Chitra Bahadur Magar, one of the quake victims sheltering at Tundikhel. "We want to move out but we are fed up with searching rooms."
"The rooms we have found so far are so costly that we cannot afford them," according to Chitra.
"All our clothes and food stuff got buried under the rubble. We do not have a penny left, how can we pay costly rents," said Magar.
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