Heavy rainfall in Uttarakhand has activated landslide areas, causing large -scale traffic jams when the debris and tourism season starts on the highway.
Landslides and heavy rains have given birth to a six -kilometer long traffic jam on the Badrinath highway, which is from Dhari Devi Temple to Khankara on the banks of the Alakanand River, which is six kilometers away.
Around 4 pm, a real -time Google Traffic Update showed more traffic on National Highway 7 (NH 7), which connects many pilgrims, Rishikesh, Devprayag, Rudraprayag, Karnaprayag, Chamoli, Joshimath and Badrinath.
Live traffic update at 4:15 pm
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The Dhari Devi Temple is Located Between Srinagar in Uttarakhand and Rudraprayag. The highway runs along the Alaknanda River.
Visuals showed cars, force passengers, trucks to crawl and crawl traffic and JCB machines cleaning the mountain debris from the highway.
Cars wait as a JCB machine that cleans the debris from the highway
The meteorological officer predicted dust storm in west and eastern Rajasthan till 27 May and hailstorm in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
