Badrinath alternative route opens for tourists, traffic flow restored

Alternate Road Opened for Badrinath Pilgrims

After a 70-metre stretch of the Badrinath highway was washed away due to 0heavy rain on Monday evening, stranding around 1,000 people, mostly pilgrims to Badrinath, in several locations, an alternate link road through Pokhri was opened with difficulty, restoring traffic flow to the Char Dham shrine.

Times News Network quoted an authority as saying, “The Karnaprayag-Pokhri-Rudraprayag link route was opened on Tuesday afternoon. The vehicles returning from Badrinath have been given priority, as it’s a narrow route and cannot accommodate too much traffic. Only a few vehicles have left from Rudraprayag for Badrinath on Tuesday.”

“The main highway connecting Badrinath to the rest of the state is still blocked due to a landslide at Kameda near Gauchar. The alternate link route through Pokhri was also obstructed due to continuously falling boulders since Monday evening,” said district disaster management officer, Rudraprayag, NK Rajwar to Times News Network.

The stretch of the Badrinath highway that has been damaged due to a landslide triggered by heavy rain could take three to four days to be restored.Meanwhile, the regional meteorological centre has issued an orange alert of heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places in Nainital, Champawat, Chamoli, Pithoragarh and Bageshwar districts of the state on Wednesday.

“Isolated places in the remaining districts are likely to witness intense showers, thunderstorms and lightning during the next 24 hours,” said Bikram Singh, director of the regional meteorological centre.

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