Submerged

By Mariya Rajan

Sucheta Tomar, a farmer and housewife in Uttarakhand state's Lohari village, is one of the many residents who lost their ancestral homes due to a hydropower project by the state government. Their home submerged in flood water, Sucheta and her husband now live in a classroom of an abandoned school. She wants to complain to the state?s Chief Minister that the hundreds of families displaced by the government?s development efforts are yet to receive compensation or land for relocation.