Road maze
For Khyali Datt Dourbi of village Laldhang near Ramnagar in Nainital district, Kotdwar seems to have become twice as far as it used to be. The journey was 90 kilometres (km) long till 2001 when he could take the Kandi road through the Corbett Tiger Reserve (ctr); now it has become almost 160 km because ctr authorities have closed the road forcing commuters to take a circuitous route through Uttar Pradesh (up) between the two Uttaranchal (ua) towns (see map).
The Kandi road linking Kotdwar and Ramnagar has been in existence for almost 200 years. But a part of the road