5,500 fruit-laden trucks cross NH, Mughal road
Srinagar, Sept. 20 -- Over 5,500 fruit-laden trucks have crossed the Srinagar-Jammu NH and Mughal road for the past two days, thus easing the crisis of thousands of valley's farmers many of whose fruits spoiled in the trucks as they were stranded on the NH for the past few weeks owing to its closure due to continuous rains and landslides.
Kashmir divisional commissioner Anshul Garg said that highway restoration was being done on war footing and road has been restored to a major extent. "For last four days, there has been continuous movement on the highway. Most of our fruits laden trucks, around 5,500 in number, have been sent through Jammu-Srinagar NH and Mughal road in the past two days," Garg said, adding that the upward (into the valley) movement of all the essential commodities like petrol, fuel, LPG and other essential commodities has been continuing now. "Today , the movement has started from 8 am from both NH and Mughal road," he said.htc...
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