Katras: Danger looms large for people living in BCCL area of Dhanbad. Landslides keep happening here every day. Even on Sunday morning, a huge landslide occurred in Jogta’s No. 11 Basti, in which the houses of Jai Kumar Mishra, Nandlal Bhuiyan and Arun Bhuiyan were destroyed. Goods worth lakhs also got buried under the debris.

At the same time, there was a crack in the ground of the locality. It is being told that a large amount of gas started leaking from the gas tank. Half a dozen houses have also been damaged. There is an atmosphere of chaos in the locality after the incident. It was fortunate that people had come out of the house after sensing the loud noise and geological disturbance.

The people affected by the incident have come out on protest with their children. The transportation work of the outsourcing company has been stopped. Kankani Colliery PO Narayan Prasad has reached the spot with the entire management team. After taking stock of the incident, he interacted with the local people.
Here, the transportation work started after one and a half hour. A ditch twenty feet deep has been formed in the circumference of about one hundred feet. People are risking their lives to get things out of the debris. First the closed house of Jai Kumar Mishra sank into the ground. After this, the houses of Nandlal Bhuiyan and Arun Bhuiyan also got affected by it.

People nearby have started taking out belongings from their homes. During this time Nandlal’s daughter Anjali Kumari got injured while running away. There are cracks in the houses of Durga Bhuiyan, Arun Bhuiyan, Shankar Bhuiyan, Chinta Devi, Shanti Devi, Brahmadev Chaudhary.
Durga’s family broke the wall and took out the belongings from the house and kept them near the school. The villagers are adamant on their demand for rehabilitation. The PO told the villagers that it has been declared a danger zone. Under JAREDA, everyone is being given accommodation in Belgaria. Arrangements for transportation of goods are being made by the management.

At the same time, the villagers say that we should be provided land in Tetulmari or its surroundings and they will build houses and live there.
In the same locality, on the night of August 14, Shyam Bahadur Bhuiyan, along with his sons, 11-year-old Arun Bhuiyan and nine-year-old Tarun Kumar had fallen asleep. The people of the village pulled him out with the help of a rope. All three injured were admitted to SNMMCH, who returned after