Srinagar-Leh highway was closed for people.

The Srinagar-Sonamarg-Leh highway was closed due to heavy snowfall from December 2019 to March 2020.

The Srinagar-Sonamarg-Leh highway was closed due to heavy snowfall from December 2019 to March 2020.The highway was closed in December 2019 due to heavy snowfall at Zojila pass in the Kashmir Valley. The Border Roads Organisation officials said that Project Beacon started snow clearance operation on 21 February 2020 by inducting additional equipment and workforce. They managed to clear the area to the zero points on the Zojila top in eighteen days. They opened the highway at the end of March 2020.

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