National Highway closed due to landslides
The Kashmir highway, linking the Kashmir valley with the rest of the world, was closed yet again due to landslides triggered by heavy rain during the night.
“We have again suspended traffic on the 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway due to landslides, particularly between Ramban and Ramsu,” a traffic police official told Kashmir Post this morning.
However, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), responsible for the maintenance of the highway, has already pressed into service men and sophisticated machines to clear the landslides and put through the traffic.
Traffic will be allowed only after receiving green signal from the BRO and traffic police official posted at different places on the highway, he said.
Today vehicles were to ply from Jammu to Srinagar since only one-way traffic is allowed on the highway since January as the road is still very narrow at some places where only one vehicle can pass easily because of damage caused by landslides.
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