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DEHRADUN/BAGESHWAR: Landslides triggered by dense and continuous rainfall crossed Uttarakhand person blocked roads astatine respective places, disrupting mean beingness and severely affecting the Char Dham yatra.
As per information from State Emergency Operation Centre, 113 roads, including 2 nationalist highways, were blocked connected Thursday. Chamoli territory reported the highest fig of roadworthy blockades astatine 23, followed by Pithoragarh with 22.The Kedarnath yatra was temporarily halted Thursday greeting aft a landslide struck the important Sonprayag-Gaurikund way adjacent Mankutia astir 10pm the erstwhile night, stranding implicit 40 pilgrims returning from the shrine.
The State Disaster Response Force evacuated the pilgrims by opening a impermanent transition done the debris.Officials said the damaged agelong was not acceptable for vehicular movement, prompting authorities to divert incoming pilgrims to safer locations. Road restoration efforts are presently underway."Munkatiya sliding portion and the tiny parking country adjacent Gaurikund is present unfastened for pedestrian use," said a territory constabulary officer.
Officials, however, cautioned that with much rainfall expected, the way remains hazardous and advised travellers to proceed with caution. The determination Met centre reported mean to dense rainfall astatine respective places crossed the authorities implicit the past 24 hours, keeping catastrophe effect teams connected alert.The monsoon besides adversely impacted pilgrim footfall. While the Char Dham yatra witnessed a regular footfall of implicit 50,000 devotees conscionable a fewer weeks ago, the numbers person present sharply declined to astir 14,000 to 15,000 per day.
Kedarnath alone, which was signaling implicit 20,000 visitors daily, saw the fig driblet to conscionable implicit 4,000 successful caller days. Meanwhile, successful Bageshwar, implicit 300 families stay astatine hazard owed to unstable terrain, particularly successful Kapkot, wherever villagers are demanding they beryllium evacuated. Diwan Singh, a nonmigratory of Kharbagad village, said, "The elevation supra is collapsing, and stream beneath is eroding the land. Our colony is nether the shadiness of disaster.
We person already suffered important harm successful the caller rains and are near with obscurity to go."Kapkot SDM Anil Rawat acknowledged the vulnerability of the region. "While the concern is presently nether control, this full portion is geologically sensitive. The nonstop information of Kharbagad volition beryllium known lone aft a elaborate geoscientific study, to beryllium conducted soon."
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