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Rain damage Pathuk-Lingzay PMGSY road
 

Our Correspondent
MANGAN, September 1: Torrential rains of August 30 have badly damaged the PMGSY road at Pathuk-Lingzey, posing threat to houses built along the damaged stretch.
With no signs of repair works, villagers from Pathuk, Chandey, Lingzey etc are forced to lug rations and walk about 6 kilometres from Makha 10th Mile to reach their destinations.
To add to this, the land and nursery belonging to one Shyam Lall Koirala of Pathuk
has also been badly damaged. About 10,000 cardamom saplings were washed away along with one acre of agricultural land.
The road works falls under State Public Works Department.

 
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Area : 7096 Sq Km
Capital : Gangtok
Altitude: 5,840 ft
Population: 6.10 Lakhs
Topography: Hilly terrain elevation from 600 ft. to over 28,509 ft above sea level
Climate:
Summer
Max- 21°C ; Min - 13°C
Winter
Max -13°C ; Min - 0.48°C
Rainfall : 325 cm per annum
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