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On Thursday morning, the bus of Khaptad Transport, which left for Dhangadhi from Chainpur, escaped from a major accident. The back wheel of the bus No. 3550 carrying 43 passengers was crushed in the Jalebagar landslide on Jaya Prithvi Highway.
The rear wheel had gone down one meter. If the driver had not cleverly brought the vehicle on the road, there would have been a big accident," said Navraj Upadhyay, the owner of the vehicle. "What would have happened to so many people if the vehicle overturned!" This has happened three to four times in our car. There is a situation where you have to kill your life and drive with your eyes closed . We don't know which day there will be a big accident," he said. He said that this landslide, which started in August, piled up stones on the road shortly after the road was cleared, so there is a risk every time.
Jalebagar is the place where the truck No. VE1K 3691 carrying food including foodstuff from Dhangadhi to the headquarters Chainpur met with an accident on Wednesday evening. The driver was injured in the accident. The truck was overturned after the rear wheel came off in the landslide . The truck, which fell about 50 meters down from the road, got stuck in a tree in the middle of the landslide and was spared from human casualties. Just on Thursday morning, a jeep going towards Chainpur was half buried in a landslide that suddenly fell on the beach road . Police said that there was no human loss in this incident.
Jai Prithvi Highway is blocked daily in this section due to dry landslides. Even though the risk of accidents is also increasing due to the continuous falling stones from the landslides, the road has been damaged, but the search for its alternative has not been done anywhere . The landslide that fell near Mandi village, Ward No. 2 of Chabis Pathivera Rural Municipality has spread to Jalebagar in Ward No. 1. Due to the constant falling of stones from the nearly one and a half hundred meter long landslide that fell on a steep hill, not only vehicles but also walking has become dangerous.
The commuters have to suffer as the roads are blocked every day due to landslides . "Cars coming from Dhangadhi and Kathmandu stop there at night," said passenger Ramjala Dhami, "carrying bags and children, they have to walk through the landslide." Bajhang police chief DSP Yuvraj Bhandari said that this area is very dangerous. Landslides have been coming around the clock. A major accident can happen at any time," he said, "even if we leave all other work, we have to assign six/seven policemen to that landslide every day. He said that although the divisional road office and the people's representatives of the district have requested to solve the problem, there has been no initiative or hearing yet.
Laxman Joshi, head of Divisional Road Office, Baitadi, said that without studying the geological conditions of landslides, work for prevention cannot be done. "For the time being, we are thinking about making the road easier to operate by removing the gabions from the road and removing the debris accumulated by the landslide," he said. We are coordinating with the department for this.'
Jai Prithvi highway section from Bagthala to Chainpur has this kind of risk in dozens of places and because it will take crores of money to address it, he said that he is also demanding a budget from the department .
