Officials at Baitadi-Darchula Road Section Office, which is responsible to maintain the road, is currently manned by one office assistant and a dozer operator.
Meanwhile, the locals, who are virtually cut off from the rest of the nation, are compelled to depend on India even to purchase basic commodities.
Landslides triggered by a recent flood in the Mahakali River had badly damaged the road section. [break]
When asked about the situation, the office assistant at Baitadi-Darchula Road Section Office, Rajendra Singh said," I have been working here alone for couple of days and I don´t know where all the others have gone.”
“The office chief left for Kathmandu a few weeks ago has not come back yet," he said, adding he and dozer operator Gambhir Singh Dhami were taking care of the office.
However, he was quick to defend his seniors, saying that the office doesn´t have adequate officials and the responsibility of the chief also compels him travel to places most of the time.
When contacted over the phone, Chief of the Baitadi-Darchula Road Section Project Sanjaya Shrestha said that they will need more time to clear the obstructed road section.
“We need to blast the boulders and large stones that have been left by the flood and this process will take some time,” he added.
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