Police blames Municipality for the threat posed by landslide ‘No further construction of the shopping complex will proceed’- Pariyar
MUKESH SHARMA
KALIMPONG, June 21:
After facing much
disagreement by the locals of the area, the Municipality still went further and
started the initial construction work of the Shopping Complex near the Novelty
Cinema Hall. But the continuous rainfall within the last few days plus the Wednesday
night’s heavy rainfall has triggered a second landslide as it counts only 10
days of construction, where the mud cutting work was on full swing. Now the
Shopping Complex project amounting Rs 2 crores is causing much inconvenience to
the people. The landslide spot located in between the Sub Divisional Library
and Police Quarters, is now posing a threat to one of the buildings of
Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC) along with the Court Inspector and the FI
Quarters. The Sub Divisional Police has directly blamed the Kalimpong
Municipality for the threat caused by the landslide.
On behalf of the Sub
Divisional Police, the Kalimpong Sub Divisional ASP Songmit Lepcha, Kalimpong
Police Station In charge Prasad Pradhan, FI Dipen Tamang along Kalimpong
Municipality Chairman LB Pariyar, Kalimpong Sub Divisional Officer LN Sherpa, Kalimpong
MLA Dr HB Chettri visited and inspected the landslide spot.
After the review, Kalimpong
Municipality Chairman LB Pariyar said no further construction will be done from
today and the municipality will lay total stress on construction of protection
wall.
Technical aspects were
not undertaken during mud cutting as a fresh landslide occurred on the 13th
of this month after which Darjeeling SP had also visited the spot and the Municipality
started construction of protection wall. Wednesday night heavy rainfall swept
away the protection wall which has added much misery to the Municipality. The
future rains can even prove to be fatal expressed the locals.
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