1. INTRODUCTION
Nepal is one of the most vulnerable countries to disaster due to its active tectonics, fragile geology, steep topography and climatic uncertainties. These disasters not only cause massive loss of life property annually but also hinders the economic development of the nation.
Landslides are very often disaster that occur in hilly and Himalayan regions of Nepal. Most of the events are induced mostly by the heavy and prolonged rainfall, but recent human activities such as improper land use, encroachment into vulnerable land slopes and unplanned development activities such as construction of roads and irrigation canals without proper protection measures has aggravated the risks (Petley, Hearn et al., 2007). Apart from massive landslides in Nepal, occurrences of many small-scale landslides in remote areas are seldom accounted unless they involve the loss of life. Also, the economic losses caused by small-scale landslides are no less than any other big event of natural disaster (Dahal, 2012).