Srinagar, May 31: The national highway, connecting Ladakh region with Kashmir, remained closed on Thursday due to landslides, while the 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu and historic Mughal roads are through for traffic.
A traffic police official told UNI that traffic on the 434-km-long Srinagar-Leh national highway was suspended following landslides at Shaitan Nallah between Sonamarg in central Kashmir to Drass stretch since Tuesday afternoon.
The Border Roads Organisation (BRO), responsible for the maintenance of the highway, immediately pressed into service sophisticated machines and men to clear the landslides, he said.
Traffic will be resumed only after receiving green signal from the traffic police officials posted at different places and BRO, he added.
Meanwhile, a large number of Ladakh-bound vehicles, including trucks carrying essentials, were stranded at Sonamarg on the side of Zojila tunnel.
Similarly, Kashmir-bound vehicles have been stopped at Drass and other places, official source said.
‘We are allowing traffic since 0500 hrs every morning from Ladakh to Kashmir and vehicles from here to the other side of Zojila are being allowed to move,’ he said.
However, passenger and Light Motor Vehicles (LMVs) are being allowed from both sides on the national highway, linking the Kashmir valley with the rest of the country.
Heavy Motor Vehicles (HMVs) will continue to move from one-way only for avoiding traffic jam and accident.
HMVs will ply from Srinagar to Jammu only on Thursday and no HMV vehicle, including security force convoy, would be allowed to move from the opposite direction, he said.
UNI
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