Nine labourers hailing from six families in Seora village in Hooghly's Goghat area are passing days in great anxiety, holed up in their shelter at Urlabari in Morang district of Nepal for the past five days.
The recent heavy rains that occurred and the uncontrolled release of water from the DVC inundated large parts of Khanakul, Goghat ,Pursura and Arambagh in the Arambagh sub-division.
During the ongoing pandemic, seven families of the area lost their only earning members and have survived on food items distributed by the political parties and other social welfare organisations. However, the affected families with no proper source of income were living in great poverty and distress.
Following this, the panic-stricken people of the area kept their shops closed.
