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Tracks hang over river - Rain forces course change [1]

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The railway tracks hang over the Kabli Jhora near Madhu Tea Estate. (Anirban Choudhury)
Alipurduar, Aug. 28: A section of the railway tracks in Kalchini has been left hanging in the air after the soil beneath it was washed away by the Kabli Jhora, which suddenly changed course and swallowed the nearly 80-metre-long approach to the bridge that spans the river.

In the past 24 hours, the rainfall recorded in Kalchini's Hasimara was 95mm and the downpour has increased water in almost all the rivers.

Publication Date: 
29/08/2008
Telegraph (Kolkata) [2]
Tags:
Soil Erosion [3], Floods [4], Rail Transport [5], West Bengal [6], Rainfall [7]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/telegraph-kolkata
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/soil-erosion
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/floods
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rail-transport
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/west-bengal
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rainfall