"In this town, people are talking about non-availability of blankets and food," said Hussein, a villager wearing old woollen clothes against the bitterly cold winds sweeping across the Himalayan peaks.
"Look at this long line of people waiting for days to get basic kerosene to cook food and burn firewood to keep us warm," Hussein pointed.
In this town, where 90 per cent of houses were levelled, Hussein was one of more than 100 men with empty cans lining up near a government fuel truck, hoping that luck would favour them. Though the trucks began arriving 10 days ago, they only brought a limited supply of kerosene.
Water and food are also in short supply, but fuel is an especially pressing issue here, at 3,000 metres' (10,000 feet) altitude, where most villagers now sleep in open fields or tents often crowded with more than 10 people.
The government acknowledges the scale of the disaster in the worst hit districts of Uri and Tangdhar, in Kashmir's north-west, where it says 90 percent of the 40,720 homes were destroyed.
The state government has promised 100,000 rupees (2,200 dollars) to the families of those killed by the killer quake, and 60,000 rupees to those who lost their homes.
Bashir Runyal, Uri's relief commissioner, dismissed the villagers' allegations as totally baseless and said relief had reached the nook and corner of the mountains. "Those areas which were not reachable earlier have also been reached," he told AFP. "More than 30 million rupees have been disbursed in Uri for relief along with 2,000 tents and 70,000 blankets."
The government was now in the process of constructing 31 large community halls to accommodate the survivors in the harsh winter days ahead, he said.
"We are doing that on a war-footing, and by November 15 all the monetary disbursements will be complete." But despite the promises, villagers say they have seen little aid so far.
The villagers feared that snowfall had started on the peaks of mountains and there would be another disaster within few weeks, as people were living in makeshift tents, fields and without proper food, sanitation or medical facilities.