Recurring landslides hitting Jammu-Srinagar National Highway at Digdol area here have put the district administration and Traffic police in quandary. The only all-weather road that connects Kashmir with rest of the country has not been “restored fully” for the vehicular movement since last Wednesday, when several landslides blocked the highway.
And, owing to a fresh landslide that hit the highway on Tuesday morning at Digdol, around 3000 Srinagar-Jammu bound vehicles, including some 300 light motor vehicles, remained stranded on around 20 kilometers of road stretch in the Ramban district till late in the evening.
Not only the Jammu-bound vehicles, but trucks carrying essential commodities to Kashmir were stuck on the National Highway thus causing immense shortage of the commodities in the Valley in the holy month of Ramadan.
