The families displaced by last year’s landslide at Phopli area in Naubahini Rural Municipality, Pyuthan, are still vulnerable to landslides but the government has not taken any steps to move them to safety.

Dobandi Budha, a local man, said they were living in temporary shelters in the landslide-prone area for the past one year but help has not arrived.

A landslide has broken out nearby and the people are scared, he added.

Twenty-eight people were killed and more than 80 houses were destroyed by a landslide in Phopli last monsoon.

Obiram BK, the ward chairman of Naubahini-8, said a large-scale evacuation was needed to protect the people still living in landslide-prone settlements, particularly Bhirkuna, Gatina, Toribang and Charibang.

Chief District Officer Yadunath Paudel said their plan of resettling 60 highly vulnerable families was delayed as a team of geologists that was called to identify a safe site for building the proposed settlement had not arrived yet.