SRINAGAR: Kashmir valley, including the summer capital, Srinagar, where snow remained frozen on roof and tree tops besides majority of inner roads, experienced fresh snowfall this afternoon.
It started snowing in Srinagar and adjoining areas, where the sky remained cloudy since this morning.
The upper reaches in the Kashmir valley, including several places on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway, experienced few inches of fresh snowfall. However, the highway was so far through for one-way traffic.
World famous ski resort of Gulmarg, Pahalgam, Kokernag, Yusmarg and Sonamarg also experienced few inches of fresh snowfall.
Meanwhile, light snowfall at isolated places is predicted in Kashmir, where the minimum and maximum temperatures will remain below normal during the next 24 hours.
However, weather will remain dry in Jammu and Ladakh divisions tomorrow, a Met department spokesman said this afternoon.
He said light snowfall is expected at isolated places in the Kashmir division tomorrow, when chill will continue.
There will be no large change in the weather condition during the subsequent two days, he said.
In the summer capital Srinagar, the sky will remain partly to generally cloudy tomorrow when the maximum temperature will be around three degree celsius, four notches below normal and minimum minus four degree, a degree below normal.
He said in winter capital Jammu, the sky will be mainly clear to partly cloudy tomorrow with maximum and minimum temperatures at 20 and four degrees respectively.
Similarly in Leh of Ladakh region, mainly clear to partly cloudy sky is predicted during the next 24 hours, when the maximum and minimum temperatures would be around four degrees and minus 14 degrees respectively. (AGENCIES)
� ae�� �in March and from April it is closed and rest of the year, nobody comes there. Compare it with Shalimar, Nishat, Chashma Shahee and other Mughal gardens, where there are tulips, roses, and other kinds of flowers…There is beauty with mountains in background. This is the situation of the Kashmir Valley.”
“People of your community keep coming but that vacuum could not be filled,” he said. By the return of a few with jobs the process has not begun. “…You have left homes in lakhs. The return of 50 to 100 people that too on employment, cannot be called as return. We cannot pat our backs on that.”
“The real return of Kashmiri Pandits to the Valley will start once they as per their wish will return to those areas from where they had left 25 years ago, and I will accept that it is real start of their return and rehabilitation,” he said.
Omar said he would try to create palatable environments for their dignified and honourable return to their native land. He also said he would intensify his efforts to seek better and more socio-economic packages from the Centre for the safe and secure return of Kashmiri Pandits.
“I will do whatever possible to improve the basic amenities being provided to Kashmiri Pandits at various migrant camps in Jammu,” he said.
The Chief Minister said the Kashmiri Pandits left their native land as their sense of security was lost in the valley during militancy. “We have to work to make them regain this sense and create safe and secure atmosphere for them to return willingly,” he said.
Omar said the genuine leaders of the displaced Kashmiri Pandits who lived as migrants and fought for their justice were their real well-wishers and friends, but not those who had not experience the sting and mental trauma the community had undergone and had come from outside the state to give them sermons without sharing their difficulties. (AGENCIES)
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