More snow,Dhumal cancels trip to Manali

Locals as well as tourists woke up to a white Shimla again with the town receiving more snowfall on Monday.

Locals as well as tourists woke up to a white Shimla again with the town receiving more snowfall on Monday. With the minimum temperature dropping to minus 2.9 degrees Celsius the seasons lowest parts of Shimla went without newspapers and milk. Vehicular movement was affected during the day due to a thick blanket of snow,which was recorded at 24.6 cm.

There was some disruption of traffic after a fresh spell of snow during the day. We are trying to keep the roads open and have mobilised a lot of machinery and manpower to clear the roads. It has been years since Shimla celebrated snowfall like this, said Shimla Deputy Commissioner Onkar Sharma.

Many drew parallels between Mondays snowfall with the one Shimla had received in 1990,when life was thrown completely out of gear with disruptions in water supplies and electricity. This time,things are in order except disruption of the vehicular movement, said Ashok Kapadia,a doctor.

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Meanwhile,Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal,who was to fly to Manali for some official function,cancelled his visit due to inclement weather. Upper Shimla areas like Narkanda,Jubbal,Kotkhai and Khada Pathar also experienced heavy snowfall. The scene was similar in places like Chail,Kasauli,Barog and Solan.

The entire belt in Kinnaur,Lahaul and Spiti,Kullu and Chamba district witnessed moderate to heavy snowfall during the past 24 hours, said a report of the metrological department.

Traffic on the Chandigarh-Shimla national highway was blocked near Waknaghat 20 km before Shimla,said a A government spokesperson. Likewise,traffic was stranded near Kullu on the Chandigarh-Manali highway.

Meanwhile,Dalhousie and Chamba towns still remained cut off from the rest of the country for the third day due to heavy snowfall near Banikhet located on the Pathankot-Chamba national highway.

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