A fleet of newly purchased twenty electric buses whose operation was recently started by Jammu and Kashmir State Road Transport Corporation (JKSRTC), a government undertaking, in Srinagar city has been put at a halt by “authorities for causing traffic jams in the city,” said an employee. As per employees of JKSRTC earlier Traffic police told them that the vehicles had no permits “despite there being no need of a permit for electric vehicles as per Centre government’s direction.” They demand that the service should be immediately restored. Reported by Umer Asif. Edited by Asif Hamid