The area is mainly covered with overburden comprising of sand and brownish silty clay. During heavy precipitation, the overburden became oversaturated thus causing abrupt reduction in shear strength and initiated the slide.


Report on the preliminary post disaster landslide studies in and around Tawang Town, Tawang District, Arunachal Pradesh by W. S. Rocky and G. Rongmei, Senior Geologist,Engineering Geology Division & S.C. Keshari, Senior Geologist, SU: GSI, Itanagar,  Geo
All India Radio Colony Slide
Sealing of cracks, removal of slide material, construction of breast wall and retaining wall with weep holes, road side drainson the western slope.
Road cutting