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| Pumps dry in Jammu, 114 tankers reach Srinagar | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 2
Under strict curfew restrictions and heavy deployment of Armed forces along the National Highway, the administration today ensured supply of essentials to the Kashmir Valley.
Even as not a drop of petrol is available in Jammu and petrol pumps are maintaining shut, more than 100 tankers reached Srinagar this evening with fuel supplies.
The army was requested to patrol the highway so as to avoid attacks on Kashmir bound trucks. "The army personnel too over the NH from Lakhanpur to Udhampur so as to clear the stranded truck", sources said.
Divisional Commissioner Jammu Sudhanshu Panday, in the meanwhile, claimed that the highway has been cleared from the stranded trucks and passenger vehicles. "We have cleared around 300 vehicles, including passenger vehicles, which were stranded on the highway", Panday told media persons, here today.
Reports reaching here from Srinagar said that as many as 114 oil tankers today left Jammu for Srinagar of which 70 have arrived here by evening. Another 150 trucks carrying essential supply and stranded on the Jammu-Srinagar high way were also cleared for onward movement to Srinagar.
Yet another 15 trucks carrying vegetables also arrived in Srinagar today. There is no Srinagar bound truck carrying fuel or essential supplies stranded on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.
The Government has taken adequate measures to ensure regular supply of fuel and essentials to the Valley.
Meanwhile, the Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Masood Samoon, earlier today discounted reports suggesting that there was scarcity of fuel in the Valley, adding that the stocks were sufficient for over a week.
"We have sufficient stocks of fuel to suffice for 7 to 10 days and supplies are being replenished daily", the Divisional Commissioner said, rejecting any suggestion of scarcity in this regard. He said the stock position was comfortable and there was no reason for any panic.
Samoon said that hundreds of trucks including those laden with fruit were cleared for onward journey at Patnitop at 5. P. M. today and were expected to cross Lakhanpur in another four to five hours.
Meanwhile, an official spokesman here said that there were 26.01 lakh litres of petrol, 44.1 lakh litres of diesel and 34.20 lakh litres of kerosene oil available in the Valley. This he said was besides the supply received today. Likewise, he said, the LPG stocks were sufficient for 15 days which was a comfortable scenario.
The spokesman said that the stocks of food grains were adequately available. He said 3 lakh quintals of rice, 90,000 quintals of atta and 15,000 quintals of sugar were stocked which would suffice the requirement for month. |
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