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Cut Off By A 300-Foot Gorge, Uttarakhand Village Marks A Lonely Raksha Bandhan
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Residents of Batoli village near Dehradun are facing isolation during the Raksha Bandhan festival due to a landslide that destroyed the road. A 300-foot gorge has cut off the village, making travel dangerous for the local population.
Why it matters
It underscores the vulnerability of remote mountain communities to infrastructure failure and climate-related geological events.
For women in a remote village around 30 km from Dehradun, Raksha Bandhan will be a difficult affair this year.
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