Frequent NH closure causing losses: Traders

The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) on Thursday expressed serious concern over “traffic mismanagement” on the national highway, saying it was causing crippling losses to the economy.
“Lack of proper infrastructural planning and mismanagement of the traffic is causing crippling losses to the economy and suffering to the public. The frequent closure of the Jammu-Srinagar road link due to landslides and shooting stones, unscheduled declaration of one-way movement, the two-day closure for movement of security forces and the harassment of travellers due to multiple check-points has resulted in the development of an abnormal situation of people being dissuaded from using the highway,” a KCCI statement said.