Shimla: The Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla, has written to the authorities for risk assessment and preventive measures for the safety of the complex, a report by Subhash Rajta in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says.
An institute source said, a letter had been written to the Union Ministry of Education and the local authorities for risk assessment of the complex in the wake of a massive landslide on Monday morning that left around 20 persons buried inside a temple in Summer Hill.
The landslide had apparently torn away the edge of the outer lawns of the institute, taking away with it a fenced pathway and several deodar trees right in front of the lawns.
Officials from the State Disaster Management Authority and the Meteorological Department have also visited the spot,” said a source from the institute.
The IIAS has covered the edge of the outer lawns with plastic sheets to ensure there was no water seepage into the slide-hit muddy area. Such was the intensity of the landslide that it took away portions of two roads, and a sizeable chunk of the Shimla-Kalka heritage railway track, before razing the temple, about 700-800 metres downhill from the IIAS.
“A road inside the complex, close to the main building, is sinking too. While it has been sinking for a while now, the landslide incident has made the authorities cautious. We are altering the course of the water on the road to ensure it doesn’t flow towards the sinking side,” said the source.
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