MANGALURU/CHIKKAMAGALURU: The Charmadi Ghat section of National Highway 75 has been close to visitors for 2 days as uprooted timber and mudslides resulted in a 16-km pileup since Monday night. More than 2,000 passengers in 500 vehicles, including children and unwell elders, spent a harrowing 15 hours at the stretch, stranded without food, water, drugs and such a lot as a mobile sign.
All buses plying from Bengaluru to Mangaluru have to cross the ghat. Working for 12 hours continuous, police and native villagers controlled to get the vehicles shifting by means of 2pm on Tuesday. Earthmovers had been put to the process as landslides buried the street in several puts. Dakshina Kannada SP Ravikanthegowda mentioned the section might be closed till all blockages are got rid of and the curbs may be extended if landslides recur.
All the vehicles were diverted by means of Sampaje-Madikeri or Naravi-Bajegoli-Mudigere-Belur direction.
A police officer who used to be overseeing the clearing operations mentioned bother started round 1.30am Tuesday after a large landslide came about at the second one hairpin curve within the 16-km ghat stretch.
As quickly as police learnt about it, they informed their counterpartsin Chikkamagaluru, who too percentage a portion of the ghat section. They started diverting vehicles from Kottigehara - the topmost level of the ghat section and entry level into Dakshina Kannada. However, vehicles which had already entered the stretch had been stranded for nearly 15 hours.
Around middle of the night, when the downpour began, a number of timber between hairpin curves 1 and 8 had been uprooted. At least nine puts witnessed landslides. As there is not any mobile community within the ghats section, passengers had been unable to tell police or their relations in regards to the disaster. Around 12.30am, native youths left Banakal and Kottigehara in twowheelers to clear the street.
Ravikanthegowda, SP, Dakshina Kannada, mentioned round 10 large timber blocked the street. Police team of workers from Chikkamagaluru and DK began to take away the dust and timber from 8am; the stretch used to be cleared for oneway visitors by means of round 3pm.
BIG-HEARTED LOCALS PITCH IN
Chikkamagaluru SP Ok Annamalai arrived with 500 packets of biscuits and water bottles whilst a social activist from Kakkinja, Arif, supplied biscuits. Belthangady MLA Harish Punja arrived with 1,000 packets of lunch. Mudigere MLA MP Kumaraswamy too supplied 500 food packets. Hakeem Dharmasthala and his crew supplied milk, biscuits, bread and buns, whilst Poornesh provided buns and milk.
A bunch of devotees who had been on their approach to Dharmasthala had been stuck at the ghat. They cooked food and shared it with others.
All buses plying from Bengaluru to Mangaluru have to cross the ghat. Working for 12 hours continuous, police and native villagers controlled to get the vehicles shifting by means of 2pm on Tuesday. Earthmovers had been put to the process as landslides buried the street in several puts. Dakshina Kannada SP Ravikanthegowda mentioned the section might be closed till all blockages are got rid of and the curbs may be extended if landslides recur.
All the vehicles were diverted by means of Sampaje-Madikeri or Naravi-Bajegoli-Mudigere-Belur direction.
A police officer who used to be overseeing the clearing operations mentioned bother started round 1.30am Tuesday after a large landslide came about at the second one hairpin curve within the 16-km ghat stretch.
As quickly as police learnt about it, they informed their counterpartsin Chikkamagaluru, who too percentage a portion of the ghat section. They started diverting vehicles from Kottigehara - the topmost level of the ghat section and entry level into Dakshina Kannada. However, vehicles which had already entered the stretch had been stranded for nearly 15 hours.
Around middle of the night, when the downpour began, a number of timber between hairpin curves 1 and 8 had been uprooted. At least nine puts witnessed landslides. As there is not any mobile community within the ghats section, passengers had been unable to tell police or their relations in regards to the disaster. Around 12.30am, native youths left Banakal and Kottigehara in twowheelers to clear the street.
Ravikanthegowda, SP, Dakshina Kannada, mentioned round 10 large timber blocked the street. Police team of workers from Chikkamagaluru and DK began to take away the dust and timber from 8am; the stretch used to be cleared for oneway visitors by means of round 3pm.
BIG-HEARTED LOCALS PITCH IN
Chikkamagaluru SP Ok Annamalai arrived with 500 packets of biscuits and water bottles whilst a social activist from Kakkinja, Arif, supplied biscuits. Belthangady MLA Harish Punja arrived with 1,000 packets of lunch. Mudigere MLA MP Kumaraswamy too supplied 500 food packets. Hakeem Dharmasthala and his crew supplied milk, biscuits, bread and buns, whilst Poornesh provided buns and milk.
A bunch of devotees who had been on their approach to Dharmasthala had been stuck at the ghat. They cooked food and shared it with others.
2,000 passengers stranded for 15 hours; Charmadi Ghat shut for two days
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June 13, 2018
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