Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Sept 28: Traffic was resumed after remaining suspended for several hours on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway due to landslides on Tuesday, officials said.
Meanwhile, traffic continued on Srinagar-Leh national highway, historic 86-km-long Mughal road and Anantnag-Kishtwar road, they said.
Traffic was suspended on the highway, the only road connecting Kashmir valley with the rest of the country, due to landslides at Kha Morh this morning, officials said.
The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), responsible for the maintenance of the highway, immediately put into service sophisticated machines to clear landslides. All the landslides, including a huge stone, were cleared and traffic resumed. However, only one way traffic was being allowed in the area where the landslide had occurred.
Hundreds of vehicles, stranded on both sides were being cleared, they said.
A traffic police official told UNI that today Light Motor Vehicles (LMVs) were allowed from both Jammu and Srinagar. However, Heavy Motor Vehicles(HMVs) and security forces were directed to ply from Jammu to Srinagar only, he said.
He said LMVs were allowed to ply from both sides on historic Mughal road, connecting Shopian in south Kashmir with Rajouri and Poonch. However, HMVs from Heerpora Shpian to other side of the Pir-ki-Gali, he added.
Anantnag-Sinthan-Kishtwar road was open for LMVs traffic only from both sides, he added. |
