Train service resumes in Kashmir

Srinagar, Nov 28: Train services resumed on Tuesday after remaining suspended for a day due to security reasons in the Kashmir valley, where separatists had called for a general strike to express solidarity with the detenues, lodged in different jails within and outside the state.

'We have resumed all train runs in the Kashmir valley today,' a senior railway official.
This was for the 45th time rail service was suspended in the valley yesterday during 2017, causing a loss of over 1.30 crore to railways this year.
He said train service resumed this morning on Srinagar-Badgam in central Kashmir to Baramulla in north. 
Similarly, all train runs also started as per schedule on Srinagar-Anantnag-Qazigund in south Kashmir with Banihal in Jammu, he added.
Rail service has become very popular in the Kashmir valley as it is being considered cheap, fast and safe against all other mode of transport. Besides passengers, railway is also suffering a loss of Rs 3 lakh per day when the service is suspended.
'We are witnessing heavy rush of passengers, particularly in the morning and evening on Saturday and Monday, when people are going home or returning to their place of work after Sunday,' he said.
'We cannot help as we have to act as per police directions since we cannot compromise with the security of the passengers and railway property,' he said. UNI