Usgao / Sattari: Grandmothers Yashode Gaude and Ratna Gaude, both sisters-in-law, literally take their lives from a stack of mud where their house has stood up, in Kankire, Sattari.
It’s been more than two weeks since the flood on July 23 bring their homes crashing into.
The women of setting small st still flowing through debris every morning in an effort to save things.
They filtered mud, grandchildren behind him, as other women and men at home away for today looking for daily wage jobs as laborers.
However, 10 family members live in rent now and have to get enough to pay the roof above their heads.
Floods and rescuers have come and leave, but ‘normal’ life expectancy seems far away.
“Initially, teams from government and private organizations did appear to help us move wood and other heavy materials.
But no one can do work trigger our belongings, can they? Most missing, including children’s books .
Even the pencil is not left.
Their government school teacher has come to give them a pen and several books, “Yashode said.
A good Samaria from Calangute has left the Laterit stone truck as aid for two affected families.
But with ongoing monsoons and high construction costs, families know that rebuilding their lives will not be easy.
In Ganjem, Usgao, Vanita Phadte is busy changing community shelter for religious events, becoming a house.
For family of eight, they know that they continue to live with unlimited relatives is not an option.
So, until his husband’s loan bank Ajay has submitted a request, the couple installed a plastic curtain on the open air structure to prepare a temporary home.
“The government has promised to help rebuild our homes, but until the money comes, I have apply for a loan so we can start the previous construction.
But there is a monsoon and lack of construction materials such as sand,” Vanita said, who had left children aged 10 and six years with his sister at Usgao until the ‘house’ while it was ready.
Ajay is worrying that Rs 2 lakh that has been announced by the government as compensation will not be enough to build a house again.
“Even if the government built its own home for us, it would be a two-room structure.
What about eight of us staying there?” Their neighbors, Rupali Gaonkar, were among 14 people in Ganjem who were trapped on the roof of their homes with children aged 10 and 17 years, without food or rescue expectations, for 12 hours.
Navy helicopters cannot save them even though some effort because the pressure from the helicopter causes running water and damages the house.
The Phadte Saish house in Ganjem was reduced to a pile of debris due to flooding.
(Above) Ajay Phadte is preparing a temporary shelter for his family, Gaonkar and family can go down after the water starts receding at 5:30 in the afternoon on July 24.
Their lives are saved, there are more worried.
Home Gaonkar is intact, but the family lost the only source of income for flooding.
“After the pandemic affected my husband’s business at the USGAO market, we had established a small-cum-photocopy shop on Ganjem.
After the flood, I found a copier worth Rs 1 lakh on the roof of the shop.
We have been told that those who lose their homes will get compensation and them Will think about shops like us later, if at all, “said Gaonkar.
Rukmini Bhartu is seventy-five years old, whose family also lives by the edge of Mhadei in Ganjem, fear of the future of his children since the flood.
He feels compensation is not a solution.
“With two bad knees, I waded by the crocodile afraid of water at 5.30 in the morning.
We have never seen this happen in our lives before.
Will this be a routine incident? Can the government prevent it? It would be better to rehabilitate us to more locations Safe, “he said.