SRINAGAR: Hundreds of vehicles, including those carrying passengers, stranded on the 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway, the only road linking the Kashmir valley with the rest of the country, for the past three days were allowed towards their respective destinations.
”Subject to weather and road conditions, we are allowing Jammu to Srinagar traffic tomorrow,” a traffic police official said this evening. No vehicle will be allowed from opposite direction, he added.
He said all stranded vehicles stranded at different places on the highway were allowed to move towards respective destinations late this afternoon. Majority of the Kashmir-bound vehicles were stranded between Banihal, Ramban, Ramsu and other places on other side of the Jawahar tunnel.
The highway remained closed for the past three days due to heavy snowfall, he said adding there was about two to five feet snow accumulated at Qazigund, Jawahar tunnel, Shaitan Nallah, Banihal and Patnitop.
He said the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), responsible for the maintainance of the highway have already put into service the sophisticated machines and men to put the highway. However, after improvement in the weather the snow clearance operation was speeded up and road was finally put through late this afternoon. (AGENCIES)
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