Gamgadhi-Tarapani-Sorukot roadway disrupted due to landslide

Gamgadhi- The Gamgadhi-Tarapani-Sorukot road is disrupted since two weeks after landslide at Aashidhara of Soru Rural Municipality-8 washed away a section of the road. Travel to and from the rural municipality to Gamgadhi, the district headquarters of Mugu district has become difficult due to this.

Landslide triggered by heavy rain washed away 10 metres stretch of the road. People travelling to the district headquarters and vice-versa have been doing so by negotiating the treacherous 10-metre steep road section on foot and switching vehicles at Ashidhara.

Although the rural municipality has removed the big and small landslides at multiple locations on the road from Ashidhara to Patihalna, the border between Soru rural municipality and Chhayanath Rara Municipality, by using scavator, it could not repair the road at Ashidhara due to technical difficulties and the scavator was returned, said Sarjan Bahadur Shahi, a local.

This road falls under the jurisdiction of the Karnali provincial government and it has so far not paid any attention to repair the road, lamented Dharma Bahadur Shahi, the Chairman of Soru Rural Municipality.

The 23-kilometre Gamgadhi-Tarapani road was constructed under the Rural Access Programme (RAP-III) with financial support of the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID), and handed over to the provincial government. The road disruption has created a hike in the prices of consumer goods and construction materials in the rural municipality, it is said.