Uttarakhand: Heavy boulders block Tawaghat-Lipulekh road, several villages cut off

PITHORAGARH

: The traffic movements at Tawaghat-Lipulekh road were halted on Tuesday evening after heavy boulders fell on the stretch and blocked the road at

Shantivan

, 30 kilometres away from

Dharchula

. According to officials of the

Border Road Organisation

, the restoration works are underway and the stretch is likely to be reopened for traffic movements by Thursday evening.

Bhupendra Singh Mahra, district disaster management officer of Pithoragarh, told TOI, “The BRO officials are clearing the stretch and it is expected to re-open for vehicular movements from Thursday.”

The stretch connects Tawaghat to

Lipulekh

. Several villages and Army outposts have been cut off from the district headquarter as the crucial road got blocked on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the Tanakpur-Pithoragarh road had also remained blocked for six hours at Matela Band on Wednesday. However, the traffic on the stretch was restored later in the day.


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