Due to knee-deep mud, the road surface is not visible. Passengers are slowly moving in a queue holding onto the side wall. Mud does not hold a wall and has no foundation to stand on. Walking like this, there are women carrying infants on their backs and old men holding sticks.

This is the view of the Dhulikhel-Bhakunde road section under the BP highway on Monday afternoon (photo). The BP highway has been blocked since Friday due to landslides caused by incessant rain since Thursday. Although the rain has stopped since Sunday, hundreds of commuters are stranded on the main highway. Many passengers are trying to reach their destination on foot after seeing no possibility of rescue. Some of them, who have been walking towards their destination since Sunday, have complained that they have not even been able to drink water. 

Ravinakumari Sah of Janakpur walked towards Kathmandu on Thursday to take the bank exam. The vehicle from Janakpur could not proceed from Mangaltar in Kavre on Friday. "It was said that a landslide had come from above and destroyed it," she said, "The road was also being cut by Roshi river Where to go, what to do. Then she was about to come to Kathmandu on foot, she was trying to cross the Roshi, but the river carried her to some distance. He was saved by friends who were around him, but the bag containing documents, clothes and belongings was swept away. "She survived by luck," she said. He has nothing with him now except a single piece of cloth on his body. How many reports have we made to the police-administration for rescue, who listens to us? Since there was no help from the government, she walked for 16 hours from Sunday morning to reach here (Bela), now she hopes to reach Kathmandu, she said. 

The BP highway is the main road connecting Kathmandu to the eastern hills and Terai. Hundreds of passengers were trapped due to flash floods at different places on this road. Like Ravina, many passengers who were stuck in various sections of the BP highway reached Bela in Kavre's Panchkhaal municipality on Monday after walking for hours. Nepalthok-Khurkot, Khurkot-Sindhulimadi and Sindhulimadi-Bardiwas sections of the BP highway towards Sindhuli have been put into operation after 'diversion', but the Dhulikhel-Nepalthok section is still blocked, due to which passengers coming towards Kathmandu and going to Ramechhap and Sindhuli are forced to walk.

It is also difficult for travelers to walk due to mudslides and floods on the main highway. A woman carrying Dudhebalak (daughter) on her back said, 'The road is nowhere to be found, there is mud up to the knees, even if it is in the same mud, I think I will reach Bhakunde.' Urologist Dr. who traveled from Kathmandu on Friday for the camp. Abhishek Thakur's team did not reach the camp. After the road was blocked, he stopped at Mangalatar from Friday. "Because of the landslide, we stayed in Mangaltar on Friday and Saturday," he said. , that was very painful.' He has not been able to reach Kathmandu since the highway was blocked by floods and landslides. After spending most of Friday and Saturday night in Mangaltar, he also joined others to reach Kathmandu on foot. All the roads are closed, we saw two people died in the ambulance, we also saw that they were swept away by the river, but how to rescue them, who will do it? There are no resources, there is no medical treatment, there is no water to eat, it was a very painful situation,'' he said, explaining what he saw in two days in Mangaltar.

Lekhnath Neupane, who was walking from Jhapa to Kathmandu, stopped at Roshi rural municipality-11 Kaldhunga on BP highway due to floods and landslides. Roshi River is flowing from both sides, 10/12 houses were swept away by the flood right before our eyes. We stayed at the school for two nights after crossing the river, we walked from there on Sunday morning after we had nothing to eat,' he said, 'the road is easy to walk and the landslide is also from above. How many people have broken limbs and bruises on the way, they have not even received normal treatment. He said that he came to Zenten Vakunde and got food and shelter. 

While on the highway, 200 passengers arrived on foot for about an hour and a half. Many travelers met at the time told that they walked for 20 hours to reach there. According to them, by Monday, hundreds of passengers have reached Bela on foot, while many more passengers are stranded in Mangaltar, Kaldhunga and Narke. People's representatives, local people and volunteers arranged food and lodging arrangements as well as general medicine for the travelers who arrived at Bhakunde on Sunday evening. 

District Police Office Kavre Chief Superintendent of Police Vasundhara Khadka said that only on Monday, 3500 pedestrians had reached Kavre Bhanjang. She informed that almost all the passengers stranded in Mangaltar, Kaldhunga and Narke of Roshi Rural Municipality were rescued on Monday. According to him, currently around 500 vehicles and their drivers are stranded in Roshi area of ​​BP highway.

According to District Traffic Police Chief Vikas Tamang, 29 kilometers of Chowki Danda-Nepalthok road section of Kavre is completely closed. Now, one-way traffic has been resumed from Dhulikhel to Chowki Danda. About 50 meters of the road has washed away on Chowki Danda. In addition to that, the road has been damaged and washed away due to the flood in dozens of places," he said, "the road in that place cannot be opened immediately. That is why there is difficulty in rescue.'