Ramban, Nov 9: 37 families affected by the massive Dhalwas landslide along National Highway-44 have written to Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, seeking his personal intervention to ensure the release of their long-pending compensation and rehabilitation package.

In their letter addressed to the Minister, the victims from Panchayat Dhalwas, tehsil and district Ramban, alleged that the March 2020 landslide was a “development-driven disaster”, caused by unscientific hill cutting, faulty planning, and illegal dumping of debris during the widening of the National Highway by construction firm Gammon India and its contractors.

The landslide, which occurred on March 28–29, 2020, destroyed 37 residential houses and caused nearly 50 acres of farmland to slide down the

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