Vehicular traffic remained suspended on the Rishikesh-Badrinath national highway-58 and other roads in various districts for the fourth consecutive day today due to landslides triggered by torrential rains in the higher areas of the state.

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Vehicular traffic remained suspended on the Rishikesh-Badrinath national highway-58 and other roads in various districts for the fourth consecutive day today due to landslides triggered by torrential rains in the higher areas of the state. The restoration work done by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) and the Public Works Department (PWD) proved insufficient as pilgrims were stranded at various places along the Char Dham Yatra routes.
District administration officials claimed that efforts were being made to repair damaged roads but sporadic rainfall was hampering their efforts to restore vehicular traffic in the disaster affected areas of the state.
They said stretches of the Rishikesh-Badrinath highway were washed away at four places in flash floods triggered by heavy rainfall in Chamoli on July 1. An alternative Nandprayag-Sawarisain-Kothiyalsain route was made to rescue pilgrims stranded along the yatra route. A total of 56 roads were still damaged though four days had passed since flash floods struck Chamoli district.