Chasoti (installment): The villagers once crossed the fields carelessly on their way, which turned into a roaring water wall on 14 August. It dropped the boulder, wood and slopes, which collapsed on the banks of the mountain settlement. Nine houses and three temples were amazed. Then, suddenly, Surge stopped a few meters from the government’s primary school, where 40 children were rehearsing for Independence Day. The school, barely 30 meters away from the stream, became the line, which separated the destruction from surviving, as the debris recorded in the earth and molded 70-odd houses below it.On that occasion, Barricade rescued most of the 400 residents of Chasoti. Of the 68 deaths so far, there were only 10 villagers, four of whom were still missing – 90% of the slain or killed were outsiders – pilgrims and visitors who came to Machel Mata Yatra.The remaining people remember the noise before watching water. “It was terrible. We thought everything would be washed, but the boulder stopped the flow from reaching most houses,” Mohan Singh, a farmer who lost a cousin, told TOI. The difference between life and death, he said, was measured in a few meters where the flood stopped over the school.62 -year -old Seva for Ram, and his wife, Panna Devi, 57, his family’s existence was an accident of time. 10 – Their joint houses of two sons, their wives and four grandchildren – were crossed on the other side of the stream that morning. When they returned, their three-storey house was a shell, snatched on a frame, where only one window skeleton remained. Khumbu Devi, the only casualties, was the elder sister of service who stopped back. “We ran away because we were far away,” Panna said, his grandchildren were playing near the ruins.Somewhere else, the existence was equally uncertain. On colliding with the flood, at least 50 cars were parked near the narrow bridge across the stream. 17 -year -old Anil Kumar and 16 -year -old Pankaj Kumar noticed that drivers left their vehicles and participated. Pankaj recalled, “The sound was nothing that we had heard earlier.” “We could not see water at first, only could we hear it. Then it was everywhere.”In the following days, the village changed dishonestly. The mud defeated the streets, the food reserves inside the kitchen, and the wind carried forward the smell of decay. The rescue teams dig with the earth and the shovel, take out the bodies from the silt and, many times, from the bottom of the rocks to the body parts. Pushpa Devi said, “Most of the people here had a miraculous migration.” “But these pictures, these scenes give us bad dreams. A pall of a pallum has landed on the village.,Damage increased beyond homes. Cultivation on terraced slopes was already fragile; Now the plains buried in the field mud, the maize stalks stretched the mid-development. During the journey, more than 30 eaters fed to the pilgrims were washed away, as well as the family as well as the family to grind the dough. The pilgrimage starting on 25 July and ending on 5 September, has been suspended. Last year, about 3 lakh pilgrims visited the temple.With the departure of crops and stalls, villagers say nothing is left to live. “Most of our people have lost their livelihood,” said Sakhasi Devi. “We don’t have to go anywhere. Any fresh flood will destroy us.”The demand for transfer for relief has increased vigorously for relief. Roshan Lal, 66, said, “It is unsafe for us to stay here.” “We must be moved elsewhere.” Govind Rathor said: “No amount can make us feel safe here. We want land in Jammu where we can live without any fear.”
