The road cutting has loosened the rock blocks which on saturation have slided down along with the overburden material. The dip slopes are getting exposed due to sliding down of the overburden material.
Interim report on Preliminary Slope Stability Assessment of Recent Disaster Affected Areas of Bageshwar District, Uttarakhand by Manoj Kumar Kaistha, Sr. Geologist; Ravi Negi & Sebabrata Das, Geologists and P.V.S. Rawat, Superintending Geologist, M-IV, N
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Jalmani bridge over Pungar River near Uttardug village
A steel barricading over the exposed rock slope is required to arrest the falling rock blocks towards the road.
The gradual failure of the rockmass along the joint planes which is probably weakened by the blasting effect for road cutting.