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Volume : I, Issue : IX, October - 2011

Study on Landslide Incidents of Paglajhora and Adjacent Areas –An Overview; Kurseong Block, Darjeeling, India

Tamal Basu Roy AND Snehasish Saha

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

Building up and maintenance of the roadway linkages in the Himalayan and sub Himalayan regions have been a major problem for the engineers and Planners. During the incessant rains of monsoon period, these roadways get blocked due to landslides sometimes for uncounted days affecting the natural mobility of hill lifeline. Due to limited number of roadways in the region and absence of alternate route, people as well as essential commodities get stranded on the road during such natural calamities (Sengupta.A, Gupta.S & Anbarasu, and K). The Himalayan regions are susceptible to extremely steep and corrugated slope dispositions with frequent instability over the unsaturated and solifluctional plasticized mass of rocks. Most of the studies conducted on the Himalayan regions include the demarcation of sensitive landslide susceptibility areas.

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Tamal Basu Roy AND Snehasish Saha, (2011). Study on Landslide Incidents of Paglajhora and Adjacent Areas –An Overview; Kurseong Block, Darjeeling, India. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. I, Issue. IX, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/513.pdf

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