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| 350 airlifted from cut off areas in Kashmir, Ladakh | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Mar 26: As many as 350 passengers, stranded in different areas which remained cut off since December 1 last year due to snow, were airlifted to their respective destinations by the Indian Air Force (IAF) during the past two days.
Aamir Ali, Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the office of Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, said here today that four serious patients were also airlifted by IAF from Dawar and Baduab in the border town of Keran to Srinagar.
He said the divisional administration approached the IAF after receiving information about these patients from local authorities yesterday.
All far flung and remote areas near the Line of Control (LoC) in the frontier district of Kupwara and Bandipora remained cut off due to snow on roads. However, the snow clearance operation has already been started by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO).
Ali said 20 passengers from Kargil to Jammu and 53 passengers from Jammu to Kargil were airlifted.
Similarly 9 passengers were air lifted from Kargil to Srinagar and 104 passengers in two sorties from Srinagar to Kargil.
Yesterday, 56 passengers were airlifted from Kargil to Srinagar in two sorties and 57 passengers from Srinagar to Kargil whereas 51 passengers were airlifted from Jammu to Kargil.
The national highway connecting the Ladakh region, including Kargil, with the rest of the state has remained closed since December due to more than 10 feet of snow accumulated between Sonamarg and Drass, the second coldest place in the world after Siberia.
The Centre and the state government have now agreed to construct a tunnel at Zojila pass to make it all weather road.
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