Excelsior Correspondent
BANIHAL, Oct 25: National Conference (NC) District Ramban president, Sajjad Shaheen has expressed serious concern over frequent traffic jams on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway (NH) especially on Banihal-Nashri stretch during the last two weeks due to which trucks, passenger vehicles and private cars remain stuck in long queues for hours together.
“People living across J&K especially in Kashmir, Banihal and Ramban have been left at the mercy of landslides that disrupt traffic on the only all-weather road which connects Kashmir with rest of the country”, Shaheen stated in a handout claiming mismanagement and lack of coordination among Traffic Police posted all along the NH responsible for the traffic mess which puts students, patients, employees, traders and transporters to inconvenience.
He appealed to the J&K LG led administration to direct the concerned authorities to take remedial steps and evolve a proper mechanism in coordination with the stakeholders so that the people are taken out of highway crisis.
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