SRINAGAR: Life remained affected in Kashmir for the consecutive 116th day on Tuesday due to a shutdown called by separatist leaders.
However, more motorists and pedestrians in Srinagar were seen carrying their daily activities.
In Civil Lines and uptown area of the Srinagar, extra-ordinary movement of private transport and pedestrians was once again seen since early morning but all the shops, commercial establishments and educational institutes were closed. Besides, the vendors had set up their stalls at Batamaloo, Lal Chowk, Dalgate, Sonwar, Jehangir Chowk, Exhibition crossing and Jawahar Nagar. The forces were deployed at sensitive areas in strength.
Many areas of the city here witnessed large queues of private vehicles as people slowly began to pick up the threads of their lives affected by the nearly four-month-long strike, officials said.
As the traffic in the city has significantly increased, additional traffic police personnel have been deployed at some intersections to ensure smooth flow of traffic.
Many shops were also open in the civil lines and the outskirts of the city, while an increased number of street vendors set up stalls at many places around the commercial hub of Lal Chowk.
The official said there is improvement in movement of people and transport with each passing day.
In the evening, all the markets across Srinagar opened in the wake of resistance programme of deal in strike after 5pm. The city markets including Lal Chowk witnessed huge rush of people and there were reports of heavy traffic jam from many civil lines areas. The shutdown was also reported from all the parts of Kashmir Valley.
According to a statement issued by the Zonal Police Headquarters Kashmir, the situation remained normal across the valley with considerable increase in vehicles and pedestrian movement in Srinagar and other main towns today. “The shops were seen open and busy in their business in many parts of the valley.
In chowks and on busy streets large number of vendors remained busy in their routine job,” it said.
According to the statement during the day, no untoward incident was reported from any part of the valley. The statement said that adequate deployment of police and security forces was made at vulnerable points in Srinagar city, in main towns as also on the roads, lanes and by-lanes connecting different places.
While there were no curbs on the movement of people anywhere in Kashmir, the official said restrictions on assembly of four or more people were in place throughout the Valley for maintaining law and order.
He said security forces have been deployed in strength at vulnerable spots and along the main roads as a precautionary measure.
Deployment has been made at market places to instil a sense of security among the public to carry out their day to day activities, the official said.
Shops, business establishments and fuel stations remained shut, but are expected to open this evening as separatists have given a 14-hour relaxation in the shutdown from 5 PM.
The ongoing unrest in Kashmir, apart from business and tourism, has also affected the education as schools, colleges and other educational institutions continue to remain shut in the Valley.
As many as 95 people have been killed and several thousand others injured in the ongoing unrest in the Valley.
Around 5000 security forces personnel have also been injured in the clashes.
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