{"id":19323,"date":"2022-12-29T15:08:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nrindianews.com\/?p=19323"},"modified":"2022-12-29T15:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:08:40","slug":"plains-in-kashmir-receive-seasons-first-snowfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrindianews.com\/?p=19323","title":{"rendered":"Plains in Kashmir receive season&#8217;s first snowfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">*<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Plains in Kashmir receive season&#8217;s first snowfall<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">*<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000;\">*<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Srinagar-Leh, Mughal roads closed; Robust response mechanism fully activated across Kashmir, says Div Com<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\">*<\/span><\/h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Syed Mushtaq: NR india news <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Jammu Kashmir<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Srinagar, Dec 29<\/span><br \/>\n(<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">NR india news<\/span>) <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Most of the plain areas in Kashmir experienced the season\u2019s first snowfall on Thursday, even as the higher reaches witnessed heavy precipitation, leading to the closure of Srinagar-Leh road which connects the valley with Ladakh, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">An official told the *media*, that the famous ski-resort of Gulmarg, in north Kashmir, recorded several inches of fresh snowfall since this afternoon, while Pahalgam tourist resort in south Kashmir, recorded 10 cm of snow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">He said most of the areas in the plains of the valley also received light snowfall \u2014 which is the season\u2019s first. It was still snowing, especially in the higher reaches, when the last reports came in and the weather system is likely to continue, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The fresh snowfall has forced the closure of Srinagar-Leh road as well as Mughal road \u2014 the alternate roadway connecting the valley with the Jammu region, the official added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">On being contacting the Divisional Commissioner (Div Com) Kashmir, Pandurang Kundbarao Pole, he said fool-proof arrangements have been put in place and robust response mechanism has been fully activated at all the district headquarters in view of the current spell of snowfall amid inclement weather.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">He said that the administration had fully activated response mechanism to deal with any situation and all line departments including power, heath, Jal-Shakti are on the ground to provide hassle free services to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">He also said that the snowfall will boost the tourism in Kashmir, besides it will also encourage the tour operators in different famous winter tourists destinations of Kashmir especially Gulamarg on the eve of new year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Plains in Kashmir receive season&#8217;s first snowfall* *Srinagar-Leh, Mughal roads closed; Robust response mechanism fully&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrindianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrindianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrindianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrindianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrindianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrindianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19325,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrindianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323\/revisions\/19325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrindianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrindianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrindianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrindianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}