Traffic in Kaligandaki Corridor stopped

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Kaligandaki Corridor has come to a standstill due to incessant rain since Friday afternoon. The road was blocked due to the fallen boulders near Jaiminidham of Jaimini Municipality 1. Landslides have also occurred in more than a dozen places in the corridor. Harihar Sharma, deputy head of Jaimini Municipality, said that the landslide has also prevented access to nearby settlements.

More than a dozen rural roads connected with the corridor are also blocked. He said that since the main road was stopped, it was also difficult to repair the rural roads. Almost 200 meters section landslide has occurred in Jaimini 5. The Theulekhola Belly Bridge, built by the Nepali Army, has also been damaged by landslides and river erosion. The house of Lakshmi Shrestha, a nearby local, has fallen into Theulekhola. They have become homeless.

The road has been blocked by a landslide at a place called Baralba on the Baglung-Gulmi border of the corridor. Omkar Thapa of Jaimini 8 said that even pedestrians are not able to move around. Apart from Ward No. 5, Arjewa of Ward No. 6 and Zaidi of Ward No. 7, traffic has not been able to operate due to corridor landslides.

In Dablyang of Baglung Municipality 10, the corridor has also been damaged due to landslides. The Corridor has been damaged by the Ecclesall landslide. After the Baglung Municipality sent a dozer to open a one-way road, vehicles are moving up to Balewa. Engineer Bishal Ghimire of Kalika Construction said that the corridor is being constructed. He brought a breaker and said that the work of breaking big stones has already started. He said that due to dozens of landslides, if it is not possible on Saturday, work is being done to bring the road into regular operation by Sunday or Monday. Apart from that, more than a dozen roads in Jaimini 9's Paiyunthanthap, Sarkuwa, Zaidi, Kushmisera, Damek and other villages have been blocked by landslides. Sharma said that only the road leading to the headquarters was opened by using a dozer on Saturday.