"I've moved my grandchildren and wife to the nearby school because our home isn't safe," Lal told the Thomson Reuters Foundation as he stood outside the abandoned house on his plot, which he visits every day and longs to return to. Like many others in the town, which lies more than 6,000 feet (1,800 metres) above sea level, Lal blames the damage on a hotel construction boom and tunneling for a nearby hydroelectric project being built by India's state-run power utility NTPC.