Highway in focus

Highway in focus

In the current winter Srinagar Jammu highway the only surface link between Kashmir and rest of the country has remained in focus. It remained closed for traffic for weeks in the past few months leading to lot of crises in Kashmir including the shortage of essential commodities.

Cooking gas became a problem for the people to get via home delivery due to its acute shortage. It was the result of frequent closure of highway in these winter months and it led to lot of difficulties for common people. In the current sub zero temperatures, people had to queue up on streets for hours to get the cooking gas and the administration could do little to help people to come out of this crises.

Srinagar Jammu highway in past two years especially during Governor’s rule has remained in media focus due to its frequent closure even during the summer months. Landslides became a norm especially in the sector of Ramban to Udhampur and the authorities responsible for keeping it open tried only to clear the landslides without having any long term plan to clear the highway for the traffic and make it all weather roads especially during the winters.

Srinagar Jammu highway is becoming a problem of permenant basis if the authorities will not intervene and look at the all causes which cause such disruptions in the traffic leading to enormous problems in Kashmir and in also disrupts supplies for Ladakh region during summers.

MK NEWS DESK

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