Every year during the monsoon season, incessant rains trigger landslides, destroying roads and sweeping away settlements while flash floods wreak havoc on communities, inundating entire villages and farmland. Property worth millions of rupees is destroyed and innumerable lives lost. What comes next is often worse. Homeless and landless, natural disaster victims are often forced to fend for themselves, living in makeshift structures, squatting on public or private land and combating hunger and disease. http://www.ekantipur.com/2012/10/11/capital/disaster-mgmt-efforts-pick-pace-in-kailali/361419.html