GULMI, JUL 15 -
Haphazard use of bulldozers to open up tracks has put many villages in Gulmi at landslide risk. The monsoon season has made the situation from bad to worse.

Nearly 40 percent of feeder roads here were built by locals without consulting experts, endangering human settlements.

In Hastichaur VDC alone, around 200 households are in danger of being swept away by landslides due to the roads constructed carelessly. Other VDCs, including Musikot, Bamgha, Neta, Arlangkot and Kharg-yang, are also threatened. 

Meghraj Gyawali, an engineer at District Technical Office, said the local users’ groups generally build the track on their

own without carrying out any feasibility study and reach out to experts for survey. “This way of working has put many villages and families at great danger,” he said.

Gyawali said a new policy would be introduced in the new fiscal year to compel local users’ groups to compulsorily conduct feasibility study and survey before starting road construction. 

Local Development Officer Dipendra Raj Poudel said sloppy manner of work has degraded forestland, buried water sources and endangered lives of many people. “The District Council had prohibited road construction and use of bulldozers during the monsoon,” he said. 

Posted on: 2010-07-16 08:29

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