ROAD SIDE PLANTATION MAY HELP IN RESCUE OPERATION AS LAND SLIDES BATTER THE HILLS

Landslides have caused huge damage to the roads as well as other existing infrastructure in tha hilly area of state of HP even more than thirty have lost their lives in the monsoon floods .The increased human interference is the reason behind as expanding urban spaces by way of altering the natural slopes  and disturbing the natural angle of repose at the profiles on existing land which is acting as contrary to the required maintenance protocol mentioned in the codes of practice for landslides batter in adequate standard of the ratio by protecting width and height as per the classification of soils failing which it will collapse automatically during the heavy rains for which the role of the road side plantation is an important to escape the such damages and land slides however the working departments are reluctant to follow road slide plantation as per the advice of the code for land protection and settlement and the other allied developmental activities deforestation and changes in the pattern standard .