Children and other box survivors are waiting to leave Irshalwadi village in containers in a makeshift camp one month after it was destroyed by a landslip. A total of 42 containers make up the colony, each bearing the nameplate of the “head of the family.” Varsha Suresh Pardhi is the owner of container number 23. Varsha, who is only six years old, resides here with her younger sisters Urmila, three, and Vidisha, four.
The orphans of Irshalwadi now reside in many of these containers—at least 13 of the 42.
The district administration sought to relocate the survivors, many of whom were children who were not at home that night, to a camp in adjacent Chouk village a week after a horrific landslip on 19 July wiped out the village of Irshalwadi in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, killing 84 people.
