54 hours after the landslide, after the road was opened at midnight on Thursday, the vehicles are on their way to their destination.
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The busy Narayangadh-Muglin road was blocked for two days and almost two and a half nights after a huge landslide hit Tuinkhola. After 54 hours of the landslide, the road was opened at midnight on Thursday and the vehicles that were stopped for a long time started towards their destination even though it was morning.
This road, which has more than 10,000 vehicles daily, gets more crowded now that it is Dasain season. Therefore, it takes a lot of effort to clear landslides and manage vehicles on the road.
After a big landslide occurred around 5 pm on Tuesday, the Chitwan administration immediately issued a notice and requested not to travel unless it is essential and to take an alternative route for the vehicles that have left. The administration has announced the route of the alternative route. Passengers who came close to Panchkilo used the suspension bridge to go to Muglin and passengers from Muglin came to Panchkilo.
The construction of a road parallel to the Narayangadh-Muglin road has started on the banks of the Tanahun Trishuli river from Jholunge Pulpari. There are small pick-up vehicles and motorcycles. Passengers stuck by landslides used this route. Some rode jeeps, some rode motorcycles and some walked.
By Wednesday afternoon, there were very few buses and passengers on the road. Chitwan police started returning the bus from Tuesday night. Even though the administration asked to take an alternative route, the freight trucks were not able to go through that alternative route. So the trucks were coming through the main highway. The police stopped the truck coming like this on the Narayangadh-Muglin road . "Since Lothar, we have parked trucks in different places. Because of this, traffic management on Narayangadh-Muglin road became easy. We were able to keep one lane completely empty on the two-lane road,' Chitwan police spokesperson DSP Ravindra Khanal said, 'Due to which the road became easy to drive after clearing the landslide .'
According to him, the car was stopped at 17 places. There was enough space in the middle of the place where the car was parked. Earlier, when the road was closed for 45 hours on Sunday afternoon due to the landslide last Friday, the vehicles were parked in a haphazard manner on the road, so that the machine for clearing the landslide and delivering the fuel used to be safe. This time the road was blocked for a long time and the road was closed for a long time due to landslides near Dhading Jawangkhola on Prithvi Highway. DSP Khanal said that the traffic management will be difficult when the closure is added to the closure, but it is easier than before if planning is done early. He said, 'We will use this method even if there is a landslide. It was seen that it would be better to do this elsewhere as well.'
In Tuinkhola, where a landslide occurred on Tuesday, four machines started clearing the landslide from Wednesday morning. Then five and finally six machines cleaned the landslide. Landslide removal was very risky in places where there were continuous landslides and small and large rocks falling.
Raju Magar, the senior operator (driver) of the machine that went to clean after a landslide on Wednesday evening was also injured in the Namsi river, which is a little further west than Tuinkhola, according to Engineer Krishna Acharya, Information Officer of the Divisional Road Office of Bharatpur. Chief District Officer Ganesh Aryal along with Chitwan's Chief of Security, Head of Road Office and Engineers also stayed at the landslide site and engaged in landslide removal and traffic management. They were dealing with the problems of drivers, co-drivers and passengers of vehicles parked on the road.
