Srinagar-Jammu highway reopens, up convoy on Saturday

Srinagar: Traffic resumed on Saturday afternoon after remaining suspended since Friday on the 270-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway, the only all weather road connecting Kashmir valley with the rest of the country.
The 86-km-long historic Mughal road and Anantnag-Kishtwar road remained closed for the past over two months due to accumulation of snow.
Traffic on the highway was suspended on Friday due to fresh landslides at several places between Ramban and Ramsu, a traffic police official told UNI this morning.
The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) pressed into service sophisticated machines and men to clear the landslides, he said adding shooting stones was hampering the operation. There was fresh landslides early this morning, he said.
However, traffic was resumed after landslides were removed from the highway this afternoon.
”We allowed traffic from Jammu to Srinagar, he said adding no vehicle will be allowed from opposite direction,” he added.

He said only one-way traffic will continue to ply on the highway till further orders on the highway as the road is very narrow and damaged at several places between Ramban and Ramsu where only one vehicle could pass easily.
The historic Mughal road, connecting Shopian in south Kashmir with Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu region remained closed for the past over two months. It will take about two more months to put through road which is seen as alternative to the Srinagar-Jammu highway. The Anantnag-Kishtwar road also remained closed due to snow. There was fresh snowfall during the past 24 hours at several places on both the roads.

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