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Landslides Along Mugling-Narayangad Road
Landslides Along Mugling-Narayangad Road
KTM Metro Reporter
August 4, 2017
Kathmandu: passengers have managed to get out of a bus and a jeep, and take a shelter at the safe place before the landslides on the Mugling-Narayangad Road swept away the bus to The Trishuli River, and fully covered a jeep at around 7:35 pm yesterday, the news in myrepublica.com and in the “gorkhapatra stated today
An account of a conductor of the passenger bus with the license plate number Na 6 Kha 7121 that has been traveling to Ilam from Kathmandu as mentioned in the news on myrepublica.com and in “gorkhapatra” of today is spine chilling.
A Scorpio jeep with the license plate number Ba 15 Cha 9381 moving ahead of the bus was pulled over without warning. The conductor saw small stones rolling down from the hill and then other debris coming down and covering the jeep.
He immediately shouted at the passengers to get off the bus as the landslide was triggered. Passengers without thinking to grab their small things in the bus hurriedly got off the bus and ran for their lives reaching the safe place only to see that the bus has fallen down to the river along with the rubble.
Along the four kilometers of the Mugling-Narayangad Road has been the most landslide-prone area since the widening of this road has started in 2015. It has taken the lives of many innocent passengers.
Probably, the project staffers have been either ignorant or deliberately ignored the landslides when they dig the toes of hills making the hills vulnerable to fall down, as the hills made up of mainly lose rocks mixed with clay or even of broken hard rocks could not stand up to the pressure of their own bodies. Strengthening the hills is necessary before cutting the toes if not the feet of those hills to make sure that their bodies would not fall down. This will prevent any landslides during the widening of the road and after the widening, too
