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EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Apr 15: Airlifting of passengers between Leh and Kargil and Jammu and Kashmir continued as the national highway, the only road linking Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh with Kashmir remained closed since January Ist due to accumulation of snow and avalanches.
Chief Coordinator Kargil Courier Service Er Aamir Ali said that 110 passengers were airlifted from Srinagar to Leh on Wednesday in C130 Aircraft of Indian Air Force (IAF). However, he said Jammu to Leh Sortie was cancelled due to bad weather.
He said 243 passengers were airlifted between Leh, Jammu, Srinagar and Kargil on Tuesday, when a return flight of AN 32 from Srinagar to Kargil was cancelled to weather. Passengers are being airlifted as traffic on 434-km-long Srinagar-Leh national highway remained closed since January Ist, 2021 due to accumulation of snow and avalanches particularly at Zojila. Normally every year the highway was being declared open before April 15. But this year road was opened about two months earlier only to declared closed again. The Beacon officers at Sonamarg declared the strategically important highway open on February 28 only to get closed again after few hours due to fresh snowfall and avalanches. Meanwhile, large number of Trucks, loaded with essentials for Ladakh remained stranded on this side of the Zojila pass. The truckers alleged that they have now no money to buy eatables for survival besides there is no word from administration when the traffic will be allowed on the highway. However, several thousand passengers were airlifted between Leh and Kargil to Jammu, Srinagar and Chandigarh during this winter.
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