The Border Roads Organization (BRO) has announced that the Manali-Leh highway will be closed for vehicles from October 31st. BRO will stop maintenance work from this date, and will not be able to perform any rescue operations if vehicles get stuck on the highway.
The road closes every winter since the weather turns bad and the area gets buried under snow. After staying closed for about 7-8 months, BRO re-opens the road by clearing the snow in June-July. Leh and other parts of Ladakh will remain inaccessible by road till the date of re-opening.
Although BRO stops managing the road from November, the road has been seeing intermittent snow fall and blockades since September this year.
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