91% Of Kashmir Open For Traffic: Indian Envoy To Us indiatoday.in

In a clarificatory conversation aimed at putting the facts straight about the abrogation of Article 370 that ended the hilly state’s political autonomy, India’s Ambassador to the US Harsh Vardhan Shringla said that the move was aimed at re-organizing the state administratively. He noted that this was the 12th time that the Indian government had gone for an administrative reorganization.
Noting that a section of the media especially in the US has peddled half-truths and incorrect information about the situation in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, India’s Ambassador to the US Harsh Vardhan Shringla has said that 91% of the Valley has been opened to normal traffic and people are freely talking to their relatives.

“It is only 9% of the Kashmir Valley that has certain (traffic) restrictions. At the same time, 26,000 landlines have been opened up in Kashmir Valley. People can talk to their relatives, people have communication. There is no communication gap whatsoever between people in the valley and their relatives in other parts of India and other parts of the world,” Shringla said.