Mandi, Nov 15,

Delayed compensation, opaque survey processes, and the absence of land for rehabilitation emerged as the strongest and most urgent concerns voiced by disaster-affected residents at a People’s Public Hearing held in Mandi on Saturday. More than 70 affected individuals from Mandi, Kangra, Kullu, Kinnaur, Lahaul and adjoining regions told a seven-member civil society panel that even years after recurring disasters, they continue to battle official apathy, exclusion from relief lists, and a slow, inconsistent system that has left many without homes, livelihoods or clarity on their future.

Residents narrated distressing accounts of homes reduced to rubble, farmland rendered unusable, and entire families displaced. Yet the dominant grievance cutting across districts was that com

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