Srinagar, Mar 18 (UNI) The 270-km-long Srinagar-Jammu National Highway, the only all weather road connecting Kashmir valley with the rest of the country, was closed yet again on Wednesday due to fresh landslides and shooting stones.
Snow clearance operation has been completed on record time while repair work has been undertaken on the Srinagar-Leh national highway, which remained closed for the past about three months due to accumulation of about ten to 12 feet of snow and avalanche threat.
The historic 86-km-long Mughal and Anantnag-Kishtwar roads remained closed due to accumulation of snow for the past about three months.
‘Traffic on the highway was suspended again this morning due to fresh landslides at several places in Ramban, including Kharpura,’ a traffic police official said this morning.
Hundreds of vehicles, including the ones carrying passengers, were stranded at various places on the highway due to the closure of the highway.
However, he said the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has already pressed into service sophisticated machines and men to clear the landslides, adding continued shooting stones were hampering the operation. ‘Traffic will be resumed only after receiving a green signal from NHAI and traffic police officials posted at different places on the highway,’ he said.
