KL Report
Srinagar
Traffic Police has taken several measures for Smooth movement of traffic on Srinagar Jammu Highway in order to ensure safety of passengers with immediate effect.
According to traffic police sources in view of shooting stone stretches and accident prone areas especially in the area of Ramsoo-Ramban sector coupled with heavy movement of nomads and poor road condition of Srinagar Jammu Highway, all kinds of Jammu bound Passenger Service Vehicles (PSVs) shall cross TCP Qazigund upto 1200 hours only while as all kinds of Srinagar bound Passenger Service vehicles (PSVs) shall cross TCP Nagrota upto 1100 hours and TCP Udhampur by 1230 hours positively.
Trollers/multi-axle vehicles shall be allowed for onwards journey (from Srinagar side) towards Jammu from 1800 hours till 2300 hours. Similarly, the movement of Trollers /multi-axle vehicles bound for Kashmir (from Jammu side) shall be allowed for onwards journey at Udhampur from 1800 hours till 2300 hours. However, no such vehicle
shall be allowed to cross the abovementioned TCP’s either before or after the above schedule. The concerned DTIs/SOs have been directed to ensure that these Trollers /multi-axle vehicles are parked at suitable places where there is no apprehension of any traffic jamming.
The movement of Load carriers (Trucks) bound for Srinagar (from Jammu side) shall be allowed from TCP Udhampur after 1500 hours. However, the load carriers carrying essential commodities like rice, livestock, vegetable, milk, LPG, oil tankers etc. shall be allowed for further movement (towards Srinagar) upto Chanderkote only and thereafter will be released for further journey towards valley after 1700 hours. The Jammu bound (from Srinagar side) load carriers (trucks) shall cross TCP Qazigund upto 1300 hours and after 1300 hours the load carriers will be lined up and shall be allowed for further journey after 2400 hours.
