Human habitation in Uttarakhand's village at risk as land sliding down the slope
Zee News
The cause of the downward slide of the village is the widening work on the Sobla-Tidang road besides underground water bodies that are making their way downwards resulting in weakening of the land surface on which the village is situated.
Pithoragarh: Dar -- the first village of Darma valley in Dharchula sub-division of the district -- is gradually sliding down the slope as a result of the weakening land surface on which it stands making it unfit for human habitation, a geologist who surveyed the village on the orders of the district administration said.
"At least 35 families out of a total of 150 living in the village need to be shifted immediately as the houses they live in are slowly sliding down the slope," said Pradeep Kumar, who led a team of geologists to the village for a survey recently, on Saturday (November 27).
The cause of the downward slide of the village is the widening work on the Sobla-Tidang road besides underground water bodies that are making their way downwards resulting in weakening of the land surface on which the village is situated, he said.
