Another Chesoti resident Bilu Kumar, who has lost his home to cloudburst and whose uncle is also missing, said the silence at night is unbearable.”We are living in constant fear of another cloudburst. Even the slightest sound sends us into panic,” he said.Kumar, who lives in the house of an uncle who is missing, said the government should shift the entire population of the village to a safer area.“The government should provide us land at safer places and also give us compensation to build our homes,” he said adding they have also apprised the administration about it.“We appealed to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, LoP Sunil Sharma and Deputy Commissioner and other officials to relocate us permanently to a safer place as we don’t consider our Chesoti village safe anymore,” he said.The trauma of the cloudburst has left deep psychological scars among the population, especially among children, women and the elderly.Akhil Shama, whose in-laws live in Chesoti village, said the villagers, especially those whose houses have been damaged and whose family members were killed or lost in cloudburst tragedy, are fearful of living in the village.
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