GANDERBAL: The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) began snow clearance operation on the 434-km Srinagar-Leh national highway, which has been closed since December last year due to snowfall. To expedite the snow-clearing, BRO has deployed snow-clearing team for the opening of the 434-km-long Leh national highway. We have cleared snow from a 20-km road strip upto Gagengeer where about two to four feet of snow had accumulated with the help of sophisticated machines, the clearance operation is on for the opening of the highway early this year,'' BRO employees said.
Before this, BRO has never attempted to clear snow on Sonamarg highway in Febuary due to heavy snowfall, but this year the pass has very less snowfall and the road will be first clear upto Baltal till March. Snow clearing machines have been engaged to clear the snow on National highway. This year we started to remove snow in Febuary due to less snowfall if favourable weather conditions, the Sonamarg highway will be open till March for the arrival of Tourist vehicles. The work will completely depend on the weather conditions, they said.