Traffic Resumes On Jammu-Srinagar Highway

Traffic on the strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway resumed on Tuesday after remaining suspended for nearly two days following a massive landslide at Ramban district.
However, despite undertaking a major operation to clear the snow, the traffic on the Mughal Road, which connects the border districts of Poonch and Rajouri in the Jammu region with south Kashmir’s Shopian district, remained closed for the seventh day, they said. The reopening of the road came as a big relief for thousands of commuters who had been stranded on the highway since Sunday afternoon after the massive landslide at Dugdale. The 270-km national highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, was cleared of the landslide at Digdole around 4 am after over a 40-hour-long operation to clear the snow, a traffic department official said. He said the stranded vehicles were allowed to move soon after the road was made traffic worthy and later the light motor vehicles were also allowed from both Srinagar and Jammu. “The traffic is plying smoothly from both sides when last reports were received,” the official said. Meanwhile, the weatherman has predicted another spell of light to moderate snowfall at most places in Jammu and Kashmir and Kargil in the union territory of Ladakh between November 14 and 16.