SRINAGAR: Traffic was restored on the 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway after remaining suspended for two days due to landslides, triggered by heavy rains.
The national highway, linking the Ladakh region with Kashmir and historic Mughal road, connecting Shopian in south Kashmir with Poonch and Rajouri in Jammu region remained open for traffic.
A traffic police official told UNI that traffic was restored on the highway, the only road linking the Kashmir valley with the rest of the country. The highway was closed on September 22 after heavy rain triggered landslides at several places, particularly in Ramban and Ramsu area.
The Border Roads Organisation (BRO), responsible for the maintenance of the highway has pressed into service sophisticated machines and men to clear the landslides, he said, adding that intermittent rain however, hampered the operation.
Hundreds of vehicles, including those carrying passengers which remained stranded from September 22 at different places of the highway were allowed to move towards their respective destinations last evening at 1800 hrs after the landslides and mudslides were cleared.
” We have allowed vehicles from both Srinagar and Jammu this morning. Trucks carrying essentials for the Kashmir valley have also left Jammu this morning,” he said. (UNI)
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