Over a dozen homes have been broken due to an enormous landslide in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Monday. Affected households have been moved to safer areas. The landslide occurred in about 1 sq km at Duksar Dalwa in Sangaldan of Gool Tehsil on the higher facet of Ramban-Sangaldan Gool highway, rendering 13 households homeless.
“A complete of 13 homes have been broken and rendered uninhabitable because of the landslide at Duksar Dal over the previous three days. The affected households have been shifted and supplied tents, ration, utensils, and blankets as quick reduction,” sub-divisional Justice of the Peace Gool Tanveer-ul-Majeed Wani was quoted as saying by information company PTI.
Wani stated on Friday, the land started to slip, additionally impacting a close-by cemetery, which led to the exhumation of a neighborhood resident’s mortal stays and their subsequent burial at a special location.
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“We’re monitoring the scenario and have positioned restrictions in the meanwhile on the motion of individuals within the space because the land remains to be sinking. The consultants from the Geological Survey of India (GSI) are visiting the place inside the subsequent couple of days to examine the scene and search for the explanations for the sudden landslide,” the officer stated.
The SDM additionally stated the affected households can be supplied compensation from the state catastrophe administration fund as per laid down norms inside the shortest attainable time.
The landslide has posed nice hazard to the 33KV Energy line and a serious Water pipeline.
Deputy commissioner (DC), Ramban, Mussarat Islam has requested the Jammu divisional commissioner to ship a staff of geologists from the division of geology and mining to seek out out the underlying purpose and in addition search assist from the engineers of IRCON and USBRL (Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Line).