Phone, internet services restored in J&K
STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Train services were restored from Jammu on Wednesday after a day-long suspension, with six trains scheduled to leave for their destinations, officials said.
Northern Railway on Tuesday night announced the cancellation of 22 incoming and outgoing trains from Jammu and Katra railway stations, while 27 trains were short-terminated at various stations in the division due to heavy rain that lashed the region.
“Train services have been restored from Jammu. Six trains, which were either cancelled or short-terminated, will leave for their destinations today,” a railway official said.
According to the PRO of Jammu Division, the six restored trains include three that were earlier cancelled and three that were short-terminated at different stations.
The trains scheduled to depart from Jammu are Jammu Tawi-Kamakhya Express, Jammu-Sambalpur, Jammu-Ambedkar Nagar, Jammu-Varanasi, Jammu-Bandra, and Jammu-Chhapra.
Meanwhile, the phone and network services were restored across all networks in Jammu and Kashmir, 24 hours after the damage to optical fibres caused outages in the Union territory, officials said.
“The phone and internet services, including mobile internet, fibre and landline internet, have been restored,” the officials said. The users can access 5G network speeds across the networks, they added.
The restoration came after optical fibre was re-connected in the Jammu region.
Technical teams were put on the job immediately after the damage to fibre was reported at multiple locations amid heavy rainfall and floods in Jammu region that had led to network outage, the officials said.
The outage caused disruptions in banking services as well.
The communication blackout impeded emergency response measures and caused panic among the residents.
In a late-night development on Tuesday, the Centre asked all the telecom service providers to immediately activate the intra-circle roaming (ICR) facility in J&K till September 2. The directive has been passed to the regulatory heads of Bharti Airtel, BSNL, Reliance-Jio and Vodafone-ldea.
