Even though the road division offices Surkhet and Jumla have removed the landslides in places on the highway, the landslides that continue to fall are causing problems.
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A family of 5 people from Sarjan Mall of Khatyad-2 series who had come to Mugu from Surkhet, reached Khidkijeula of Dailekh via Karnali highway last Friday afternoon when they heard that there was a landslide in the Gagane river in Kalikot. They lived there.
The micro bus they were traveling in left Khidkijeula, hoping that the road would be opened the next morning. At 8 o'clock they reached the Gange river in Kalikot. The landslide did not stop because it was raining. The road was opened at 1 o'clock after two excavators from Ballatal road division office, Jumla cleared the landslide from Vallo and Pallo side. After coming 4 km further, the vehicle stopped for 3 hours due to a landslide near Hulme. The Mall family's stay took place in Manma on Saturday evening. Even though the water is not big, it is a waterless river that flows from a hundred meters above the mud and stones.
'On the day of Janaipurnima, we came to the house to worship the deity,' he said, 'it became impossible to reach.' He complained that Karnali residents suffered because the road was not reliable after it was built.
Last Sunday, a team of 9 people including Gor Bahadur Khatri walked from Sinja in Jumla to Surkhet. The police stopped the vehicle at Hulma saying that there had been a landslide in the Gagane River. As the rain did not stop, the road was not opened that day. The next day, after the machine that started removing the landslide from 7 am opened the road at 1 am, they started towards Surkhet. From the end of July to the month of August, the youth of Sinja are going to go to India because they can pick apples in Shimla, India. Naresh Budha said that he is suffering because of the road. On the day they left home, they reached Kalikot the next day after staying at Nagma Bazar, the border of Kalikot and Jumla due to a landslide in Jumla.
Civil society leader Damanraj Bam says that landslides on the Karnali highway have caused a lot of suffering since June. He said that due to clouds and fog during the rains, the residents of Jumla, Mugu and Humla are facing difficulty in commuting as airplanes do not fly and roads are closed due to landslides.
The distance from Surkhet to Manm in Kalikot via Dailekh is 151 km. Beyond that, the Karnali Highway, which is 82 to Jumla Bazar and has a total length of 232 km, can be reached in 8/9 hours if the road conditions are good. However, due to the dilapidated and narrow roads, even though it is easy to reach in one day till June, the people who reach Kalikot, Jumla, Mugu and Humla of Karnali in the past have suffered due to landslides. "The road will be blocked as soon as it rains a little," Calikot police chief DSP Tek Bahadur Rawat said.
According to him, the road has been blocked 1 time in Karnali Highway in June, 1 in Lalu Khulalu, 5 times in Hulme, and since July, 6 times in Hulme, once in Tadi, 6 times in Molfa Bihain and 1 time in Galje, the road has been blocked 14 times.
Similarly, the road has been blocked by landslides in Gagane river only 21 times in June and July. In other places it is normal. Govinda Prasad Chaudhary, information officer of the district police office, said, 'Gagne river caused a lot of pain. As soon as it rains, there will be a landslide with mud. There is a ban on traveling on the Karnali highway at night as there are more landslides and accidents.
Even the cars that did not stop anywhere from Surkhet, every year after the onset of rains, stop at Shubhkalika-1 Gangane river in Kalikot, causing suffering to the passengers. Even though the contract is done every year, due to the lack of quality work, the road is blocked by landslides as soon as it rains.
Although the government has widened some parts of the Karnali highway for the improvement of the Karnali highway, which was damaged in places due to the unseasonal rains in October 2078, the condition of the road is still the same after the wall with the gabion mesh made from the contract of 30 crores was washed away by a landslide last year. For the prevention of landslides here, the road department sometimes brings experts and reports on the spot, but the citizens do not know what has happened.
Pragya Narayan Prasad Bhattarai said that the landslides of the Gangane river on the Karnali highway, which become dusty when the sun shines and become muddy when it rains, always cause suffering to the passengers. He said that he informed the road division office Jumla from time to time through correspondence and telephone for the prevention of landslides. Due to the problem of landslides in places such as Gagane Khola, Jite, Bihani etc. of Karnali Highway, Road Division Office Jumla has kept 3 machines in readiness only in Kalikot section. "We have kept two excavators in Hulme for the landslide of Gagane River," he said. He claimed that the landslides were removed within a day even though they were blocked for 3 days due to the falling of the rock that was won after Asar.
Although the road division office Surkhet and Jumla have removed the landslides in places on the Karnali highway, the traffic police office Manm has informed that the passengers have to suffer due to the landslides that continue to fall all the time. The drivers complain that the roads in Paduka, Daikhola, Kalekhola, Hulm, Serighat, Sunar Khola, Tadi, Pili, Timure Bhir of the Karnali highway are suffering because of the damaged roads. 'Even if it is blocked in other places, soon It opens,'' said Kamal Mizar, a truck driver, 'Gagne river in Kalikot causes a lot of pain.'
The government through the road department spent 320 million on the Surkhet Jumla road in the last financial year alone, while the local levels are spending 5/6 million of the annual budget on the road itself.
