| Border towns of Machil, Gurez, other far flung areas remain cutoff | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 6: Dozens of far flung and remote villages, including border towns of Machil and Gurez, remained cutoff for the third successive day on Monday due to slippery road conditions and accumulation of snow.
However, despite fresh snowfall, roads leading to many remote villages, including border towns of Keran and Karnah, were through for traffic on Monday.
"Kupwara-Machil road remained closed due to accumulation of snow and slippery road conditions for the third day on Monday. Similarly, roads leading to dozens of far flung and remote villages in Kupwara also remained closed," an official of Police Control Room (PCR), Kupwara, said over the phone.
He said due to fresh snowfall, the snow clearance operation has been hampered. "Traffic will be restores to these areas only after clearing the accumulated snow," he added.
The official, however, said that traffic on Kupwara-Keran and Kupwara-Karnag roads was plying normally despite light snowfall. Traffic was suspended on roads leading to Keran, Karnah and other far flung areas in north Kashmir on Saturday following slippers road conditions and accumulation of snow of about 1 to 1.5 feet of snow. However, snow clearance operations on these roads were taken up following improvement in the weather conditions and traffic was restored on Sunday.
Meanwhile, border areas of Gurez, Neeru and dozens of other areas also remained cutoff from district headquarter Bandipora due to accumulation snow on the road. "About 80 per cent of the road has been damaged and traffic has been suspended till further orders," official said.
He said it is highly unlikely that the traffic to the border town will be resumes before March.
The authorities have already pressed into service snow clearance machines and cutters to clear the snow and put through the road, which used to shut for six winter months in the past. The government has approved a tunnel at Razdan pass to make it an all weather road.
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