In view of the massive rains in Uttarakhand there are reports of heavy landslides in various parts of Uttarakhand with national highways getting blocked n commuters facing risk to lives. The Border Roads Organisation workers are continuously on the job to remove the heavy boulders that are falling from the hill tops not only blocking the national Highway roads but also posing direct risk to peoples’ lives.
There have been umpteen incidents of heavy boulders weighing in tons of kilograms falling on running cars abruptly smashing them n claiming lives.
Few days back a running car was badly smashed by a heavy boulder that fell on it killing a man n in another incident a woman grievously injuring her.
Meanwhile the Gangotri national Highway is being blocked n opened intermittently affecting the traffic movement on the national Highway with tons of heavy boulders falling unpredictably on the roads blocking the traffic for hours together.
In Gagnani n Daabrani Uttarkashi Garhwal, the traffic has been completely blocked for hours together as the unending long queue of vehicles due to these falling boulders in view of landslides have badly affected the traffic movement.
The Border Road Organisation employees n the troopers of India Tibet Border Police guarding the Melange valley also got stuck here for infinite time. The Gangotri highway could be opened after the tremendous hard work n efforts retrieving out the heavy boulders n making a squeezed way.
This has become the common phenomenon in Uttarakhand hills n national highways during monsoons with the commuters life in extreme danger.
The incidents of cloud bursts, over flooding, landslides and excessive monsoon creates havoc. Several villages n their houses have been gutted n swept away in the overflooding water due to cloud bursts killing many people in the Kumaon region recently It’s better to give up movement on highways n roads during monsoons for life safety n security.
