New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir principal secretary Rohit Kansal on Monday said that 90% of the valley was free of daytime restrictions.

Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, he said that on the law and order front, out of 111 police stations in Kashmir, only 105 function or are territorial. Daytime restrictions have been fully lifted from 92 police stations, up from 81 last week, he said.

“This makes 90% of the valley free of daytime restrictions of any kind," Kansal said.

“Jammu and Ladakh already continue to be free from all such restrictions and in totality, we have 93% of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh free of any prohibitory orders today," the principal secretary said.

Kansal said that over 26,000 landlines are functional in the valley.

“On the communications front, we have been briefing you from time to time. In our latest decision, we decided to open 29 more exchanges, making the number of functional exchanges to 76 out of a total of 95," he l added.

Mobile and internet services were suspended in the valley and adjoining areas since 5 August after the Centre scrapped Jammu and Kashmir’s special status by abrogating provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution and bifurcated the erstwhile state into two Union territories—Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh by passing the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019.

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