- Saturday, 11 July 2026
Jumla, July 11: Landslide occurred at Gagane stream of Kalikot district has obstructed Karnali highway.
Information Officer at Road Division Office, Jumla, Saurav Singh, said vehicular movement along Karnali highway has come to a standstill after landslide occurred at Gagane stream following incessant rainfall.
Efforts are underway to remove landslide debris from 3:00 am in necessary coordination with Road Division Office, Surkhet. Issuing a public notice, the Office informed all to avoid night travel during rainy season.
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Myagdi, July 11: Preparation has been made to open new trekking route connecting Mudi-Gurja-Rughachour-Jaljala of Dhaulagiri rural municipality in Myagdi district with the aim of giving new dimension to natural, cultural and adventure tourism.
A plan has been set to bring this ‘virgin route’ into operation from coming winter season. Minister for Science, technology and Innovation, Maha Bir Pun, shared that preparations are underway to operate trekking route from Mudi of Dhaulagiri rural municipality-4 to Jaljala of ward no 2 based on recently conducted feasibility study with the support of the Department of Tourism.
The route is a virgin one, added Minister Pun, requesting the tourism entrepreneurs and locals to make necessary preparations to take tourists in this trekking route.
He opined that the Tourism Ministry would support construct necessary infrastructures like resting place and suspension bridge along the trekking route. A team under leadership of Chitra Tilija, Chief of Beni-based Contact Office of Minister Pun, had conducted feasibility study of Mudi-Gurja-Jaljala trekking route, Dhaulagiri circuit trek and trekking route connecting Dowa of Annapurna rural municipality-1 to Chimkhola via Raghuganga rural municipality-7 in the first, second and third weeks of this Asar. The team prepared the report about the feasibility study and submitted to Minister Pun and Tourism Ministry last week.
The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has allocated Rs 30 million for Dhaulagiri circuit trek project in the budget of coming fiscal year 2083/84 as well as Rs 2.1 million for the feasibility study of trekking routes including Mudi-Gurja-Jaljala route.
Expressing the belief that the new trekking route would revive the tourism sector, Bijay Gharti of Mudi mentioned that the operation of new trekking route would create new opportunities of employment and income generations in local levels.
This proposed trekking route connecting Dhaulagiri Mountain and Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve is considered to have great potential in terms of natural, cultural and adventure tourism. Mudi is home to Magar and Dalit communities while Gurja known as ‘hidden village’ is home to minority ethnic group, Chhantyal, and Dalit community.
Chairperson of Dhaulagiri rural municipality-4, Yam Prasad Gharti expected that this new trekking route would help promote local economy along with tourism development of Dhaulagiri area.
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Kathmandu, July 11: The Home Ministry has launched disaster hotline number 1234 in all 77 districts in order to make disaster related incident, complaints, information and rescue service faster, easier and more effective.
As per the press release issued by the Ministry, the toll free number 1149, which was previously operated from the centre, has been converted to 1234 and brought into operation.
An arrangement has been made where calls made to 1234 from Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur districts of Kathmandu Valley would be addressed by National Emergency Operation Centre, Singha Durbar, while calls made from other 74 districts would be automatically sent to district emergency operation centre of the concerned district.
According to the Ministry, it is expected that rescue, cooperation and service delivery would be more effective as citizens could now directly contact at their own district operation centre for disaster related information, problems, complaints and suggestions.
The first cabinet meeting of the incumbent government had adopted a policy of making civil service result-oriented, accountable and effective. A system has been implemented to operate emergency operation centre in all districts round the clock in accordance with the policy.
The Home Ministry has urged the citizens to follow the official information and early information issued by the government during disaster hour and to make call at 1234 if needed. —
