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| PM's visit costs people dearly | | People taken to hostage as no traffic movement allowed | |
Jammu, July 15:
Entire Jammu city today presented a deserted look amid tight security ring laid around the winter capital town ahead of the visit of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh with public and private transport restricted on routes leading to all satellite colonies and peripheral areas.
There was chaos and confusion every where and no vehicle was allowed to ply on the city routes and even the shopkeepers were not allowed to open their shops as part of security measures.
Though it was a weekend holiday today, the tight security arrangements and restriction of public traffic further forced the people to remain indoors for the whole day.
A three tier security blanket was put in place on the day long visit of the prime minister during which he had to lay the foundation stone for the satellite town for Kashmiri Pandits at Jagti , besides to receive the Degree of Doctorate of Letters conferred on him by the University of Jammu at a special Convocation at the campus .
The CRPF and local Police personnel manning the outer security had erected barricades on all the routes leading to the city for the last three days during which they were searching every vehicle entering the city.
Like wise the team of Special Security Group comprising of National Security personnel reaching here three days advance had already taken over the control of Jammu University Campus.
However, today the traffic on all routes was restricted right from the wee hours.
Meanwhile, security personnel were also seen on the roofs of the buildings manning the fly over to be used by the Prime Minister to visit Raj Bhawan later in the day.
While locals preferred to remain at their homes, the worst affected were the Amarnath Pilgrims arriving here from outside the state and from districts and the valley who remained stranded for the entire day at Railway Station.
People were seen carrying bags in the scorching heat from Sidhra as passenger buses coming from the valley and districts of Udampur and Doda were not allowed to enter the city, forcing the commuters to get down the busses five kilometers away near By Pass Nagrota.
"I came on foot all the way from Nagrota by pass, as police men on duty forced us to get down only there", said a youth coming from Doda. He said even woman and children came on foot all the way from Nagrota bearing the hot whether.
" Ramesh Kumar, a local resident said on every VVIP visit the security agencies restrict the moment of the people and also stop plying commercial and private transport on the routes causing great hardships to the public in general.
Dewan Chand, a businessman said that business community suffered heavy losses today as they were not allowed to open their establishments for the major part of the day.
The absence of public transport also affected the supply of milk and vegetables in the market coming from the rural areas.
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