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| Srinagar-Jammu highway through for one-way traffic | | Valley receives fresh snowfall | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Jan 26: The 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway was through for one-way traffic today despite fresh snowfall. Hundreds of vehicles, including those carrying passengers and essentials left winter capital, Jammu for Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir despite fresh snowfall, parts of Kashmir Valley today received fresh snowfall even as the residents got respite from severe cold wave with minimum temperature increasing by several degrees. A traffic police official said here that vehicles, including trucks laden with fruits and empty oil tankers, which left Srinagar yesterday morning, reached Jammu last night.
He said only one-way traffic will continue on the highway, the only road linking the Kashmir valley with the rest of the valley, till further orders.
'We have decided to allow alternative traffic between Srinagar and Jammu to avoid any traffic jam, he said, adding that there is also threat of avalanches when the weather improves.
There is also huge wall of snow on both sides of the road at several places, particularly between Jawahar tunnel, Shaitan Nallah and Banihal areas. The Ladakh region, meanwhile, remained cut off from the rest of the state after the Zojila pass was closed for six winter months from December Ist last yea. The Sadhna and Razdan passes, connecting dozens of villages, including near the Line of Control (LoC) also remained closed for the past three weeks due to accumulation of heavy snow.
Though the authorities claimed many far flung and remote villages were again connected with their district and tehsil headquarters, but people alleged that roads remained snowbound.
Fresh snowfall was recorded at three south Kashmir locations, including the tourist resort of Pahalgam, while light snowfall was recorded in the Srinagar city.
Pahalgam received 9 cm snowfall, while Kokernag recorded 10 cm snowfall, a MeT official said. Qazigund town, which acts as a gateway to the Kashmir Valley, received 4 cm snowfall, he said.
The minimum temperature at Pahalgam resort rose by 1.2 degrees Celsius from yesterday to settle at minus 6.2 deg C.
Qazigund recorded a sharp increase of 5.6 deg C from last night and settled at minimum minus 1.8 deg C.
The minimum temperature in Srinagar, which received light snowfall overnight, rose by 1.8 points from yesterday to settle at a low of minus 0.8 deg C.
Leh town in remote Ladakh region recorded minimum minus 13.2 deg C, which was an increase of 5.8 deg C from yesterday, he said.
The adjoining Kargil town, also in Ladakh region, recorded a low of minus 20 deg C, the only place to witness a decrease in the minimum temperature, as mercury there fell by two degrees compared to last night, he said.
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