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The highway was closed for vehicular traffic on Saturday following incessant rains that triggered multiple landslides and also severely damaged a portion of the road near Panthiyal Tunnel and Chamba-Seeri in the Ramban district, leaving thousands of vehicles stranded.
"Barring the Chamba-Seeri stretch where a 60-meter strip of road was washed away, the highway is almost clear of all hurdles and is traffic-worthy,” a traffic department official said.

He said the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) is working round-the-clock at Chamba- Seeri and is working on an alternate alignment to ensure early restoration of the road." The restoration work will take some time. The stranded vehicles will be cleared on precedence once the road is made motorable," the functionary said. still, no fresh business will be allowed either from Jammu or Srinagar till the concurrence of the stranded vehicles, he added. A police prophet advised people to avoid traveling on the trace till the time evidence is issued by the administration."


HMV’s Advised to take the SSG and Mughal road from Jammu to Srinagar and return. It is anticipated that routes will open by Wednesday, but an official statement is said to be made tomorrow.

NH-44 is still closed and people are advised to follow lane discipline, writes Jammu police in a recent tweet today.