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| Sgr-Leh highway closed | | | SRINAGAR: Despite dry and sunny weather for the past three days, the Ladakh region remained cut off from the rest of the Jammu and Kashmir for the fith consecutive day today following closure of 434-km-long Srinagar-Leh National Highway due to landslides.
Hundreds of passengers besides vehicles and essential commodities, remained stranded on either side of the Zojila pass due to closure of the road link.
Deputy Commissioner, Ganderbal Iftikhar Husnain Bari said due to avalanches the Sonamarg-Gumri road was closed at 102.8 km known as Aab-Math and 106 km point.
He said the Beacon authorities are on the job to clear the road.
Similarly, road at 112 km is also reportedly under avalanche which comes under Himank Project and they also are working to clear the slide.
Bari said he was personally supervising the road clearance work by Beacon and Himank projects.
However, he said the road would remain closed today also for traffic.
A Traffic police official told UNI that work to restore the traffic on the Highway was in full swung.
But, he said only stranded vehicles would be allowed to move in case of the highway was re-opened.
Official sources said despite dry weather for the past three days, traffic could not be resumed because of threat of more landslides.
The road between Drass, the second coldest place in the world after Siberia, and nearby Kargil to Leh was through.
Similarly road from Srinagar to Sonamarg on the highway was also through and hundreds of visitors and locals were visiting the tourist resort daily.
They said because of improvement in the weather, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), responsible for the maintenance of the highway, the only road linking the Ladakh region with the state, have pressed into service sophisticated machines and men to make the road traffic moving soon.
Meanwhile, vehicles carrying passengers and essential commodities for Drass, Kargil, Leh and other areas in Ladakh region remained stranded at Sonamarg and other places.
Similarly those returning from different parts of Ladakh region were also stranded at different places on other side of the Zojila.
The road remained closed for six months in winter due to heavy snowfall in Zojila Pass area. However, the State and Centre has agreed to construct a tunnel to make it all weather road.
Sonamarg-Gumri road closed due to avalanches.
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