Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Traffic halted again at 20th Mile for road clearing work


GANGTOK, 13 Aug: Traffic came to a halt again today on either side of the landslide near 20th Mile on the National Highway 31A for around two and a half hours due to road clearing work by the BRO this morning.
It may be mentioned here that a massive landslide had occurred on Saturday on the National Highway 31 A near 20th Mile. Due to this landslide, many boulders, uprooted trees and mud slides had posed a threat for vehicles travelling along this route.
It is informed that the BRO carried out works to remove the boulders, trees and mud this morning from 7:30 AM. Due to this vehicular traffic was totally stranded on either side till 10:30 AM. [from NANDU DUTRAJ]

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