DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i08.023

Pages: 1650-1664

Kalimpong District in the Eastern Himalaya in West Bengal, India has been intensely destabilized by many landslides. Recently the incidence of landslide occurrence has increased rapidly with the gradual anthropogenic abuse of slopes specially the development of transport arteries and consequent jerk and vibration by vehicles. Due to landslides, the Darjeeling Himalayan region faces major problems of geoenvironmental imbalance and poses threats to life and property Therefore; landslide hazard zonation mapping becomes indispensable to identify the risk zone for future prevention and management of such hazards. With this view in mind, the present paper takes an attempt to undertake the work of landslide hazard zonation mapping of Kalimpong district, Darjeeling district.