US EditionKashmir’s fruit markets shut down over prolonged highway closure
The highway damage has stranded hundreds of apple trucks, causing estimated losses over ₹200 crore and triggering shortages and price hikes in essential commodities.
- Javid Ahmad Bhat fears losing his entire year's earnings from apples, as two trucks containing apples worth over $10,000 are stranded due to a blocked highway in Kashmir.
- The Jammu-Srinagar national highway has been blocked for over two weeks due to landslides, impacting over 4,000 trucks carrying apples and leading to estimated losses of nearly $146 million.
- Farmers protested by shutting down fruit markets, expressing frustration over the government's slow response to the road closure, which coincides with the peak harvest season for apples.
- Chief Minister Omar Abdullah criticized the central government for failing to restore the highway, stating, 'If the federal government cannot keep the highway operational, its control should be handed over to him.
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Thousands Of Tonnes Of Apples Rotting In Kashmir Due To Road Closure
Thousands of tons of apples are rotting in trucks stranded along the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway, with distressed farmers protesting the government's failure to restore the highway for the last 20 days.
"Government should have taken this seriously": Mehbooba Mufti questions delay in JK National Highway restoration over apple crop losses
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], September 17 (ANI): Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday criticised the Union and J-K governments over apple farmers’ losses due to delay in restoration of the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, and said the issue should have been taken more seriously. She said that the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah should have taken the step 15 days back as horticulture is the backbone of the state. “All …
DGP, IG Traffic Visit Tharad Section Of Jammu-Srinagar Highway, Review Restoration Work
Jammu, Sep 17: Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Nalin Prabhat on Wednesday visited the Tharad village on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in the Udhampur district to review the ongoing restoration work, officials said. This visit by the DGP follows a high-level meeting on Tuesday chaired by Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari to review the status of the highway, which has remained closed for heavy ve…
Over 2,200 fruit-laden trucks evacuated via Mughal Road in Kashmir
STATE TIMES NEWS SRINAGAR: More than 2,200 fruit-laden trucks were evacuated via the Mughal Road, the alternative road link between the valley and Jammu, during the past 24 hours, an official said on Tuesday.The trucks were stranded along the Srinagar-Jammu national highway due to its closure following landslides in the wake of incessant rains.The 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of …
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