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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