Saturday 18th Jul, 2026
Srinagar, Mar 9: (UNI) Hundreds of vehicles, including those carrying essentials and passengers, left Jammu for Kashmir valley on Saturday morning as one-way traffic was allowed on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway.
However, historic Mughal road and Leh-Srinagar National Highway, connecting Ladakh with Kashmir, remained closed since December 2018.
“We have allowed traffic today from Jammu to Srinagar on the highway, the only road linking Kashmir valley with the rest of the country,” a traffic police official told UNI.
However, he said no vehicle, including security force convoy, would be allowed from opposite direction to avoid traffic jam and accidents.
During the last two days, traffic was allowed to ply from Srinagar to Jammu to clear large number of trucks, carrying fruits, stranded on this side of the Jawahar tunnel for the past several days.
Frequent landslides and shooting stones has become a routine on the highway, forcing authorities to suspend traffic. However, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and Border Roads Organisation (BRO), responsible for the maintenance of the highway, are working round-the-clock to clear the landslides and shooting stones on the highway and put through again traffic.
Meanwhile, snow clearance operation on Srinagar-Leh national highway, which remained closed since December last year, has been started from both sides of the Zojila pass.