Unseasonal rains cause widespread damage

Myagdi / Oct. 9: Unprecedented rainfall has caused significant damage to a hydropower project, roads and agriculture in Myagdi district.

Incessant rainfall since the past few days have led to floods and landslides have occurred in many places, affected the locals celebrating the Dasain festival.

Meanwhile, power supply has been interrupted after the floods damaged the 35 KW Inglekhola micro hydropower station located in Gurja of Dhaulagiri rural municipality-1. As a result, 265 households in Gurja have been left in darkness.

Likewise, most of the roads in the district have been blocked due to the rainfall taking place since the past four days. The roads from district headquarters Beni to Beni-Darbang and Beni-Jomsom have been blocked.

Meanwhile, it has snowed for the first time in the Lekali area of the district in early October.

There has been snowfall on the hills near Gurja village since Friday afternoon. According to local residents, this is the first time that it has snowed in the month of October.

Due to unseasonal rains and storms in Myagdi, paddy crops grown on hundreds of hectares of land have been damaged.

According to the agricultural technician of the local level, the paddy crop has been damaged due to the rain and wind.

The near-harvest paddy has been damaged by the wind blowing it down and rainwater soaking it. According to Agriculture Knowledge Centre, paddy has been cultivated on 3,892 hectares of land throughout the district.