Luckily, there is no rain in this region and those likely to be immediately impacted have been evacuated.
Praful Rao,
Kalimpong,
Dist Darjeeling
SaveTheHills(STH) is a group of concerned citizens who are raising awareness about landslides in Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya. Many landslides are the direct or indirect result of human interference and preventable if sufficient care is taken. As such, unless we begin a comprehensive and sustained program towards landslide management, prevention and mitigation, the consequences of ignoring years of human callousness will, in the future be devastating.
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Landslides are a naturally occurring phenomenon. Several landslides have occurred in early eighteen century when the development level was low, particularly in upper hills. Hence it is absolutely difficult to correlate them with developmental activities. The fact that human inhabitations and villages exist in the upper hills itself shows that such population need to be connected and hence developmental activities are unavoidable. It is not a practical solution to leave such areas in virgin conditions in the name of save the hills.
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