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| Ladakh remains cut off, one-way traffic on Kashmir highway to continue | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 23: The national highway, linking the Ladakh region with the Kashmir valley and historic Mughal road remained closed while hundreds of vehicles, including trucks, carrying essentials, left Jammu for Kashmir valley as only one-way traffic will continue on the highway till further orders.
The Bandipora-Gurez and Synthan-Kishtwar roads also remained closed since December last year due to accumulation of snow.
The Border Roads Organisation (BRO), responsible for the maintainance of the 434-km-long Srinagar-Leh national highway has put into service sophisticated machines and men to restore traffic.
Fresh snowfall recently, particularly at Zojila and other places has delayed the reopening of the national highway.
The region remained cut off from the rest of the state since December last year due to accumulation of several feet of snow. Because of less snowfall this winter, the road was scheduled to reopen a month early this year.
However, there was fresh snowfall last week at several places, including Zojila, Sonmarg and Meenmarg on the national highway, official sources said adding the snow clearance operation by BRO was going on from both sides to put through the highway.
The Government of India (GoI) has already approved construction of a tunnel at Zojila to make it all weather road.
Snow clearance operation on the historic Mughal raod, connecting Shopian in south Kashmir with Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu region remained closed since December last year, was going on a war-footing following improvement in the weather after recent snowfall.
Governor N N Vohra has recently urged Government of India (GoI) to declare the Mughal road, seen as alternative to Srinagar-Jammu road, as national highway.
Hundreds of vehicles, including those carrying passengers and trucks loaded with essentials, left Jammu for Kashmir valley this morning, a traffic police official told .
However, he said no vehicle will be allowed from Kashmir to Jammu today as rainfall during the past more than a week has resulted in shrinking of existing road formation at some places due to landslides.
To avoid any traffic jam or accident it has been decided to allow only one-way traffic on the highway till further orders. |
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