The Jammu and Kashmir Socio Economic Coordination Committee (JKSECC), an amalgam of various trade, travel, transport, tourism, industrial, horticulture, contractors, educational, pharmaceutical, houseboat and other formations has demanded revocation of recent state government order restricting vehicular traffic movement on the highway.
In a statement, JKSECC said, “The frequent restrictions onthe highway during past one year on one or the other pretext had caused havocand unimaginable losses to the business community apart from severeinconvenience to the general public including patients and tourists”.
“Nowhere in the world the people are subjected to suchbizarre and deplorable treatment by the governments that claim to have beenestablished for the service of same very people,” read the statement.
JKSECC demanded immediate revocation of the order. “Allowingvehicular traffic for just few hours besides frequent road blockades due towidening and abnormal weather tentamounted to virtual strangulation of economicactivities in the valley.” in protecting yatris from vagaries of weather duringseveral pilgrimages.”