One way traffic resumes on National Highway

Jammu March, 13 (PTK) One-way traffic was resumed on Saturday after remaining suspended for weekly Friday maintenance on the 270-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway, the only all weather road connecting Kashmir valley with the rest of the country.

We resumed one-way Light Motor Vehicle (LMV) traffic from Nagrota to Srinagar at 1045 hrs, a traffic police official said here today (Saturday). He said traffic could not be resumed earlier because of landslides and shooting stones, triggered by rain yesterday when highway was closed for weekly Friday maintenance.

Last night, the traffic department had announced that in view of inclement weather prediction issued by Met department for few days there is possibility of land and mudslides and shooting stones on the highway.

However, in case of improvement in the weather during the night decision to allow traffic will be taken on Saturday morning after assessing the road condition.

Traffic police official said there was some improvement in the weather and landslides triggered by rain on Friday in Ramban area were cleared and one-way traffic resumed today. Only LMVs from Nagrota were allowed to move towards Srinagar, he said.

After traffic was being disrupted frequently due to landslides and shooting stones, the Union Territory (UT) administration decided to allow National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to undertake necessary maintenance and repair work of the road so that road is through during other days. (PTK)