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Over 1.37 lakh metric tons of caller effect were successfully dispatched from the Kashmir vale successful the past 10 days, the J&K authorities said connected Monday (September 22, 2025).
“Every day, astir 1,500-2,000 vehicles, including effect trucks and bare tankers accumulating successful the Valley, are being systematically dispatched towards Jammu connected alternate days via Srinagar-Jammu National Highway and Mughal Road,” Anshul Garg, Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, and M Suleman Choudhary, Inspector General of Police, Traffic Kashmir Division, said.
The question of caller fruit, particularly apples, was halted owed to dense rains that resulted successful the closure of the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway for 3 weeks since the past week of August. It resulted successful rotting of tonnes of apples worthy crores of rupees successful stranded trucks, severely denting the effect manufacture of Kashmir astatine the highest harvest season.
Mr. Garg said during the past 10 days, nether the strict Standard Operating Procedures (SoP), the Traffic Police, National Highway Team, BRO, and different applicable agencies successfully dispatched implicit 137,000 metric tons of caller effect utilizing the National Highway, Mughal Road and Parcel Train Service.
“The signifier of postulation is streamlined and monitored by the postulation constabulary personnel. The restoration of the National Highway is being expedited with the enactment of section medication and agencies, and the IGP Traffic is intimately monitoring the postulation question successful coordination with NHAI and section administration, which has resulted successful accelerated question of vehicles,” Mr. Garg said.
He said the question of trucks has importantly accrued from the erstwhile 1,500-2,000 vehicles per time to 4,000-4,500 vehicles per time now. “Around 2000 fruit-laden trucks person near from Qazigund towards Jammu, and each the fruit-laden trucks from the vale shall beryllium dispatched towards Jammu by precocious evening,” helium added.
On Sunday, astir 1800-1900 trucks reached Jammu via the Mughal Road successful an effort to dispatch caller fruit. “Recently, the parcel bid work was inaugurated by the Lieutenant Governor of J&K, truthful the effect is straight taken from Srinagar to Adarsh Nagar, Delhi,” the Divisional Commissioner added.
Around 800 to 1,000 tons of caller effect were being transported regular done Parcel Train Services to Delhi. “The request for bid loading operations from Baramulla and Anantnag is being processed further to assistance the farmers,” helium added.
Meanwhile, Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) person and legislator from Pulwama, Waheed Parra said determination was “a deliberate effort to termination Kashmir’s pome industry, the backbone of our system to favour Himachal apples and cripple us”.
He said the Mughal Road and nationalist road blockades are “deliberate”. “Amid borderline skirmishes, what’s the justification for stopping pome trucks? If it were Op Sindoor oregon Yatra, would roads beryllium blocked for truthful long? What justification does the authorities have? Accountability indispensable beryllium fixed and question restored,” the PDP person said.
