Srinagar, Mar 7: The Sadhna pass, connecting dozens of border areas, with district headquarters
Kupwara, reopened on Wednesday after remaining closed due to accumulation of
snow and slippery road conditions.
However, Z-Gali and Phirkiyan passes remained closed due to
snow, slippery road conditions and threat of avalanche for the past six days.
Meanwhile, the Razdan pass, connecting Gurez and other border areas with
district headquarters Bandipora remained closed due to accumulation of snow and
slippery road conditions since January. The national highway, connecting Ladakh
with Kashmir and historic Mughal road also remained closed since December last
year.
Traffic on the 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway, the only road linking the Kashmir valley with the rest of the country, was through for one-way traffic. Today the traffic will ply from Srinagar to Jammu and no vehicle will be allowed from opposite direction, a traffic police official told.
“Traffic was resumed on Sadhna pass this morning after improvement in the weather and clearance of snow”,a Police Control Room (PCR) official told UNI over phone from Kupwara. In the first week of January, 11 people, including a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) were killed in a snow avalanche at the pass.
However, he said, traffic remained suspended to far-flung and remote areas, including those near the Line of Control (LoC) due to closure of the Z-Gali and Phirkiyan for the past six days. A BRO driver was killed under an avalanche during snow clearance operation at Phirkiyan recently.
The snow clearance operation has already been started to put through these passes for traffic again. Traffic will be resumed once a green signal is received from the officials posted at different places, he said adding weather has also improved though there is avalanche warning.
This winter, including during 40-day-long Chilai Kalan, the severest chily period, these passes remained open for most period as there was very less snowfall as compared to previous years, when these roads used to close for six months, he said.
This time, he said, roads to border towns of Keran, Karnah, Machil and Tangdhar also remained open during most period of the winter months, due to less snowfall.
Meanwhile, traffic on road connecting border areas, including Gurez and Neeru, with district headquarters Bandipora remained suspended since December last year due to accumulation of several feet of snow at Razdan top besides slippery condition. UNI
Traffic on the 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway, the only road linking the Kashmir valley with the rest of the country, was through for one-way traffic. Today the traffic will ply from Srinagar to Jammu and no vehicle will be allowed from opposite direction, a traffic police official told.
“Traffic was resumed on Sadhna pass this morning after improvement in the weather and clearance of snow”,a Police Control Room (PCR) official told UNI over phone from Kupwara. In the first week of January, 11 people, including a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) were killed in a snow avalanche at the pass.
However, he said, traffic remained suspended to far-flung and remote areas, including those near the Line of Control (LoC) due to closure of the Z-Gali and Phirkiyan for the past six days. A BRO driver was killed under an avalanche during snow clearance operation at Phirkiyan recently.
The snow clearance operation has already been started to put through these passes for traffic again. Traffic will be resumed once a green signal is received from the officials posted at different places, he said adding weather has also improved though there is avalanche warning.
This winter, including during 40-day-long Chilai Kalan, the severest chily period, these passes remained open for most period as there was very less snowfall as compared to previous years, when these roads used to close for six months, he said.
This time, he said, roads to border towns of Keran, Karnah, Machil and Tangdhar also remained open during most period of the winter months, due to less snowfall.
Meanwhile, traffic on road connecting border areas, including Gurez and Neeru, with district headquarters Bandipora remained suspended since December last year due to accumulation of several feet of snow at Razdan top besides slippery condition. UNI
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