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Inside HARSHAM: Cracks, Leaks, and the Test of Resilience After a Landslide

  • August 01 , 2025

On August 8, 2019, a deadly landslide wiped out 95 homes and claimed 17 lives in Puthumala, next to Chooralmala in Wayanad's Meppadi Panchayat. 

HARSHAM — a model rehabilitation township — was built to bring happiness and hope to the survivors. But five years later, residents say the promise is crumbling. Leaky walls, cracked tiles, and electric shocks haunt this government-backed housing project.

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