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Vehicular movement has been started since Thursday night after the landslide that occurred near Tuin river on Narayangadh-Muglin road has cleared. According to the road division Bharatpur, the traffic movement came to a standstill with the landslide on Tuesday afternoon.
Engineer Krishna Acharya, Information Officer of the Divisional Road Office, has informed that two cars started driving on the Narayangadh Muglin road from 11 o'clock at night.
Chitwan. The main landslide in Tuinkhola was cleared around 9:30 pm on Thursday night. It took about 53 hours for the Division Road Office to remove the landslide.
Engineer Krishna Acharya, information officer of Bharatpur's divisional road office, said that although the main landslide has been removed, the nearby mud and stones are being cleaned. He said that they are clearing all the obstacles in the landslide-affected area for the purpose of double traffic from today night. It is ready to drive around 11 pm.
This road was blocked after a big landslide occurred around 5 pm on Tuesday. This road was blocked for 45 hours continuously due to a landslide in Tuinkhola, which is two and a half kilometers from Muglin towards Narayangadh, since last Friday evening. The landslide that happened on Tuesday was cleared from Wednesday morning.
Even though it is night, the process of removing the landslide of Tuinkhola continues. Chitwan District Police Office has informed that despite the problem of stones falling from Bhir, they are averting landslides by lighting lamps.
Engineer Krishna Acharya, information officer of Bharatpur's divisional road office, said that the landslide will be cleared within two hours at the most and the vehicle will be opened today if possible. After a huge landslide occurred at Tuinkhola near Muglin on the Narayangarh-Muglin road around 5 pm on Tuesday, the road has been blocked till now.
According to the Ministry of Physical Planning and Infrastructure, work is being done on both sides of the landslide near the Tuin River on the Muglin-Narayangadh road section. According to the ministry, now 1 excavator from Narayangarh, 1 Landslide removal is being done by using 2 loaders and 1 excavator from the side of loader and Muglin.
According to the ministry, 1/1 back loaders are deployed on both sides. Due to the narrowness of the working area, only 5 devices can work from both sides at one time, the ministry said. The ministry said that 60 percent of the landslides have been removed so far.
Physical Infrastructure Minister Kulman Ghising said in a press conference organized by the ministry on Friday that work is underway to remove the landslide of the Tuin River by night.
He said that all possible equipment has been mobilized to remove the landslide and said, 'If it doesn't rain tonight, the road will be opened by night.' He said that there is no problem on other highways exiting Kathmandu and also requested to use alternative route.
The Baglung-Balewa-Kushmisera road, which was blocked by a landslide, has been put into operation after three months. The road, which was blocked after the road was washed away due to rain, has been operational since Wednesday. About 100 meters of the road was swept away when a landslide occurred in Baglung Municipality-10 Dablyang. Equipment including dozers were used to open the road, which had been closed since last June.
Thousands of citizens of Baglung Municipality-10 Galuwa, Bhakunde, Ward No. 13 Paiyumpata, Amlachaur of Ward No. 12 had to suffer due to road blockage. From the Balewa area, the headquarter Baglung Bazar can be reached in 20 minutes, but due to the landslide, it was forced to use a detour of two hours.
Five major highways have been blocked due to floods and landslides caused by rains in different parts of the country. According to the information provided by the police head office, the Koshi highway at Bhotkhola rural municipality-4 Varun of Sankhuwasabha, the Koshi highway at Makalu rural municipality-3 of Sankhuwasabha was completely blocked due to landslides.
Similarly, Miteri bridge connecting Nepal-China at Pasanglhamu Highway in Gosainkund Rural Municipality-2 of Rasuwa, Mugling-Narayanghat road section in Ichchakamana Rural Municipality-5 in Chitwan and Madhyapahari Lokmarg in Bhume Rural Municipality-4 in Rukum East have been completely blocked, Central Police Spokesperson and Deputy Inspector General of Police Vinod Ghimire informed. According to him, the east-west highway in Nawalparasi, Kaligandaki corridor in Baglung, Trishuli-Meilung road in Rasuwa are operating in one way.
The Narayangadh-Muglin road was blocked due to landslides, but there is no obstruction on the other BP highway to eastern Nepal. Leaving the valley on Dasain Prabhat Kumar Jha, spokesperson of the road department, said that although the traffic is high, the highway is not blocked.
This highway, damaged by last year's flood, has not yet been built. But during Dasain, more than 10,000 vehicles pass through this road every day.
Bharatpur divisional road office is using five machines since Thursday morning to clear the landslide that fell in Tuinkhola near Muglin on Narayangadh-Muglin road.
This road has been blocked since 5 pm on Tuesday after the landslide. It is not certain whether the road will be opened today or not because it was not possible to work until late at night after it rained yesterday evening. Many machines could not be used due to the narrowness of the place where the landslide occurred.
While the number of people going home to celebrate Dasain is increasing, the journey is becoming difficult as the rain has damaged the roads in places.
The Nagadhunga-Narayangadh road, where a large number of passengers leave Kathmandu valley, is blocked by a landslide. Passengers are stranded. There is a problem in the neighborhood when it rains in the Narayangadh-Butwal section under the east-west highway where traffic is high.
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Traffic has come to a standstill due to landslides on Malekhu-Muglin road section in Ghoptevir and Jawang rivers on Wednesday night. According to the project, there is a problem in removing the landslide due to the rain.
The police has run a free bus to rescue the passengers stranded on the road due to the Tuinkhola landslide and the passengers who came on foot after the landslide. Chitwan District Police Office Chief SP Gobind Puri informed that police school bus has been provided free of charge to rescue the stranded people.
About 1,000 cargo vehicles have been stranded on the Narayangadh Muglin road section after the Tuin river landslide. As the passenger vehicles have taken alternative routes, about 1,000 cargo vehicles have been stuck on the road section, Chitwan District Police Office Chief SP Gobind Puri informed. Cargo vehicles that left for Kathmandu carrying daily consumables from Eastern Terai were stranded on various road sections of Chitwan.
After the landslide of Tuin river, the passenger vehicles are using alternative routes. The area police Muglin has requested that westbound vehicles go through Muglin Pokhara. On Tuesday evening, the Chitwan administration appealed to take an alternative route through Bardiwas in Mahottari in the east and Butwal in Rupandehi in the west. Similarly, the administration has issued notices to use alternative routes from Hetaunda in Makwanpur, Kawasoti and Gaindakot in Bardghat Susta East of Nawalparasi, Khairenitar in Tanahun and Naubise in Dhading, and passenger vehicles are plying accordingly.
According to the road department, there is little possibility that the road will be fully operational even by tomorrow after the landslide that happened in Tuinkhola on Muglin-Narayangadh road section. According to an employee who is engaged in the work of removing landslides, the work of removing a landslide of more than 150 meters is going on. According to the department, it is becoming risky to avoid landslides at night. The employee of the department said, 'Stones continue to fall from the place where the landslide occurred.'
The road that was blocked due to a landslide in Tuinkhola on Muglin-Narayangadh road section around 6:30 pm on Friday is still not fully operational. On Tuesday afternoon, this road section is completely blocked after a large landslide occurred at the same place. According to Prabhat Kumar Jha, the spokesperson of the road department, work is being done to remove the landslide from both sides. The road department has requested to use an alternative route until the road is fully opened. The main highway, which has been closed since Tuesday afternoon, has not been opened till the time of writing this news on Wednesday evening.
