Houses in Uttarakhand village sliding backwards, risk for human habitation: Experts

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.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.



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