Photo: The damaged TLDP-IV site at Kalijhora.Gangtok/Siliguri: The forecast of a heavy rainfall in the next 24 hours has left residents of north Bengal and Sikkim apprehensive, especially after Monday’s downpour triggered a series of landslides in the hills.
The deluge had turned the Teesta turbulent, sweeping away makeshift huts and machinery from the NHPC’s Teesta Low Dam Project (TLDP)-IV site at Kalijhora, 25km from here. Some of the machinery were traced to a spot near Sevoke, about 5km downstream.
A.K. Singh, the chief engineer of TLDP-IV, said the quality control lab at the site was also washed away. According to Singh, the usual volume of water flowing past the site is around 1,000 cusec. This had increased to 5,300 cusec yesterday, but came down to around 2,000 cusec today. “We will use cranes to pull out the machinery after the water recedes,” Singh said.
Traffic movement on NH 55 — connecting Siliguri to Darjeeling — has resumed.
Jalpaiguri Met office sources said there were chances of heavy rainfall throughout sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim in the next 24 hours. North Bengal Flood Control Commission has withdrawn the yellow alert on the Teesta.
The deluge had turned the Teesta turbulent, sweeping away makeshift huts and machinery from the NHPC’s Teesta Low Dam Project (TLDP)-IV site at Kalijhora, 25km from here. Some of the machinery were traced to a spot near Sevoke, about 5km downstream.
A.K. Singh, the chief engineer of TLDP-IV, said the quality control lab at the site was also washed away. According to Singh, the usual volume of water flowing past the site is around 1,000 cusec. This had increased to 5,300 cusec yesterday, but came down to around 2,000 cusec today. “We will use cranes to pull out the machinery after the water recedes,” Singh said.
Traffic movement on NH 55 — connecting Siliguri to Darjeeling — has resumed.
Jalpaiguri Met office sources said there were chances of heavy rainfall throughout sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim in the next 24 hours. North Bengal Flood Control Commission has withdrawn the yellow alert on the Teesta.
