Vehicular movements in the mountainous areas of Dehradun district are being adversely affected with six motor roads remaining blocked following landslides for the past two days. Three roads which had been blocked after Sunday’s heavy shower were cleared on Wednesday though.
Meanwhile, the low lying areas of Dehradun city were waterlogged following rain since Wednesday morning. The inconvenienced people are complaining of inadequate drainage system of the city and its suburbs. Trees fell at several places in the city and a bus of a public school in Dalanwala was also damaged in the school campus after a tree fell on it. With the rains continuing for hours, the residents of the city chose to remain indoors during the morning hours.
As per the disaster control room officials, several roads in the rural areas in Dehradun district were blocked for traffic due to rain-driven landslides. Water entered the houses in Mothrowala area. District disaster control room official said that among the nine roads in mountainous parts of the district which were blocked due to landslides, three have been opened for traffic. “We are trying to clear the rest of the blocked roads at the earliest,” he added.
The roads which are still blocked are Kalsi Chakrata motor road, Quani Minas motor road, Maldevta Gutugandhak Pani motor road, Balajichilhara motor road, Radu Mondal motor road and Salangoan Bhandar motor road.
A total of 20 calls related to water logging, blockage of roads, erosion of farm lands among others were received at district disaster control room on Wednesday.
The callers complained of damage to agricultural land at Sila Village in Mothrowala and damage of Payjal at several places in Chakrata block. Besides, cowsheds were damaged at various places after the boundary walls crumbled, the official said.