Dhangadhi. The problem of squatters, landless people, and reserve-affected victims in Sudurpashchim has been festering for decades. Displaced by natural disasters like floods, landslides, inundation, erosion, and earthquakes, communities such as the Badi, Dalits, and freed Kamaiyas, who have lived as squatters for generations, are still waiting for secure housing. Some are living in government forests, others in unsafe settlements along riverbanks, and some are living in tents pitched on the roadside.Even within Dhangadhi, the only sub-metropolitan city in the province, there are hundreds of such families who have been using land for years but do not hold legal land...