- Experts on Wednesday conducted an on-field study regarding opening an alternate way to the one-and-half -kilometer section of the Araniko Highway submerged by the damming of the Sunkoshi River due to the massive landslide that occurred at Jure Village of Mankha VDC in Sindhupalchok district last Saturday.
The section of the highway from Dam site at Mankha-1 and one and half kilometres beyond has been completely damaged disrupting vehicular movement.
A team of engineers led by Director General at the Department of Roads, Devendra Bahadur Karki, arrived at the site to make an on-site inspection and is carrying out a study regarding the possibility of opening an alternate road. Deputy Director Generals of the Department Keshav Sharma and Arjun Thapa are also in the team.
The section of the submerged highway would be able to operate if the water level in the artificial dam created due to the blockage of the river by the landslide is reduced by 50 percent, said Arun Kumar Sribastav, an engineer at the Division Road Office, Dolakha.
He said if it was not feasible to open an alternate route at the same place, there is another option of operating the Sildhunga-Piskar-Tauthali-Sunkoshi road or the Kharidhunga-Piskar-Dhuskun-Sunkoshi rural road as an alternative after their repair.
However, since these two rural roads are going to be long, an alternate road could be opened by extending the road linking the Dam Site to Tekanapur by constructing additional two kilometers road, he added.
Sribastav said that two engineers, a loader and an excavator have been kept stand-by in the affected area.
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