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“If the confluence region of river Gori and Kali near the town gets a tall embankment and street lights, only then the residents might come out of fear of monsoon floods, ” said Shakuntala Datal.<\/p>\n
According to irrigation department officers, there is a protection wall\u00a0at the banks of both the rivers, Gori and Kali, and proposals for the construction of embankments have been sent to state government.<\/p>\n
“We have included Jauljibi town in the list of 26 highly\u00a0 disaster sensitive areas of the district,” said\u00a0D.K Singh, executive engineer of irrigation department, Dharchula division.<\/p>\n
“While river Kali flows at some distance from the village, river Gori is flowing close to the houses and whenever there is more rain, the river water enters inside houses forcing the villagers to shift to higher places,” said Arjun Datal, a resident of Jauljibi\u00a0 village.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, after heavy downpour\u00a0 on Monday night, \u00a0the state police and Sahastra Seema Dal ( SSB) personnel took to joint patrolling at Indo-Nepal border points of Jauljibi to caution villagers against the illegal mining in the river and not to go near \u00a0the river during the monsoon period.<\/p>\n
” We have also appealed to the villagers that if any person is doing illegal mining in river during monsoon months, the police should be immediately informed, “said P.C. Joshi, Station house officer (SHO)of Jauljibi police station.<\/p>\n
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Jauljibi residents fear flash floods from Kali and Gori rivers in the absence of safety embankment B.D.Kasniyal Pithoragarh, June 28 With monsoon rains knocking on the doors, the people living in the natural disaster prone areas of Dharchula and Munisiyari \u00a0sub-divisions of Pithoragarh district, \u00a0are again fearing flash floods and landslides particularly those living\u00a0 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,92,91,39,59],"tags":[507,263,394,508,160,102],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-featured","category-national","category-tourism","category-uttarakhand","tag-flash-floods","tag-indo-nepal-border","tag-jauljibi","tag-kali-and-gori-rivers","tag-pithoragarh","tag-uttarakhand"],"yoast_head":"\n