Karki government has been praised for issuing early warnings and imposing road closures in response to flood forecasts.

Multiple studies and institutions have consistently sounded the alarm.

The Landslide Atlas of India 2023, published by ISRO, ranks Darjeeling 35th among the country's most landslide-exposed districts.

As the slope flattened out, the landslide blew open the channel and spread out, depositing a wall of uprooted trees just upstream of the house. A slurry of rocks and mud continued flowing, plugging the Shingle Kill streambed all the way to the road, where it was stopped by the debris dam at the culvert.

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