SRINAGAR : Traffic on the national highway, connecting the Ladakh region with the Kashmir Valley, resumed this morning after remaining suspended yesterday due to landslides, triggered by rain and fresh snowfall.
Traffic was resumed after the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), responsible for the maintenance of the highway, put into service sophisticated machines and men and cleared the landslides.
A traffic police official told that the highway is open for both ways. However, he said, only one-way traffic is allowed at Zojila pass where the road is still very narrow at some places due to huge walls of snow on both sides.
Traffic was suspended yesterday morning after rain and fresh snowfall triggered landslides at some places. ”We allowed traffic from Drass to Sonamarg this morning and vehicles will ply from Sonmarg to Drass in the afternoon,” he said.
The Centre has already agreed to construct a tunnel at Zojila to make it an all weather road to Ladakh which remained cut off during winter months due to ten to 15 feet of snow. (AGENCIES)
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