Singhu border reopens for cars after over a year
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Mukesh Tandon
Tribune News Service
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Sonepat, December 15
After over a year, the Singhu border reopened for cars on Wednesday evening.
Heavy vehicles will be allowed as soon as the road maintenance work is completed, said Deputy Commissioner Lalit Siwach.
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After farmers left the Singhu protest site on December 11, teams of the district administration, National Highways Authority of India and Delhi Police carried out a special drive to clean the area.
The Sonepat administration opened the Singhu border around 3 pm, but the traffic could run smoothly only by 6 pm, when the Delhi Police removed the barricades after carrying out maintenance work.
For now, only three lanes on both sides of NH-44 have been reopened for small vehicles. DC Siwach and SP Rahul Sharma officials visited the border in the evening.
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