INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
MANDVI (KUTCH): Even as several towns and hundreds of villages battered by Cyclone Biparjoy are wading back to normalcy, Kutchis have shown
their resoluteness once again by rebuilding their lives around the devastation without wasting time waiting for sponsored relief.Without
waiting for government agencies to come, survey damage and affix ex gratia, people banked on their own resourcefulness to start life anew
amid the ruins.Many a roof, torn asunder by the gale, was straightened and refixed on Saturday, so that displaced families could return home
soon from shelters.Though it is not raining in Kutch and the wind speed too has significantly reduced, heavy to very heavy rains may
continue in many northern districts of Gujarat.Like the villages located near Jakhau, Mandvi taluka too has got marooned in the catastrophic
Nana Layja village, a remote hamlet located 18km off Mandvi town, is a sight to be seen
Situated barely 2km from the sea, not a single house of the village with a population of 1,300 has its roof intact
The walls of many houses also collapsed
The village has around 200 houses.When TOI reached this remote village, it was pleasantly surprised to find villagers not bemoaning their
losses, but constructively rebuilding houses, clearing uprooted trees off roads to restore normal lives
Ghani Mahmad, busy fixing his rooftop, mistook the team as surveyors
Mahmad, a father of four girls, is a fisherman without his own boat
in our village got damaged
The authorities are busy clearing road blockages and restoring electricity, and will probably start surveying damages by next week
