Baglung, Aug. 10 -- The Balewa-Ridi section of the Kaligandaki Corridor in Baglung district was completed in the second week of June, six months ahead of schedule, and handed over to the project.

Since the start of the monsoon, however, the section has been regularly blocked by landslides. Frequent slides at Binamare in ward 5 of Jaimini Municipality and at Baralbhan, near the entrance to Gulmi's Kaligandaki Rural Municipality, have made it impossible for vehicles to pass.

On the under-construction Maldhunga-Balewa section, haphazard stone quarrying and material extraction have triggered further landslides, leaving the road closed since Saturday morning. A large slide at Kalakhola in ward 13 of Baglung Municipality has not been cleared....