One-way traffic likely on Srinagar-Jammu highway
January 20th, 2012 - 3:15 pm ICT by IANSSrinagar, Jan 20 (IANS) One-way traffic is likely to be restored Friday afternoon on the Srinagar-Jammu highway that has been closed for the last two days due to snowfall in Patnitop and Bannihal sectors, an officer said here.
“The highway has been cleared for one-way traffic from Nashri to Srinagar. Traffic is likely to move after the authorities give their go ahead,” Border Roads Organisation (BRO) chief engineer Brigadier T.P.S. Rawat said here.
Rawat said BRO men and machinery worked round the clock to reopen the highway.
“Landslides and heavy snowfall blocked the road during the last two days, otherwise we were set to open the highway for two-way traffic,” he said.
Road clearance operations were started as soon as the weather improved, he added.
Heavy snowfall in the Patnitop and Bannihal sectors of the highway had closed the road triggering shortages of cooking gas, kerosene oil and other essential commodities in the Kashmir Valley.
Despite special market checking squads formed by the provincial administration, people have been complaining of essential commodities being sold in the black market with traders selling these at exorbitant prices.
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