Weeks after 300 stranded mid-air, J&Okay orders probe into Gulmarg gondola glitch | India Information
3 min learnSrinagarJun 10, 2026 09:56 PM IST
The Jammu & Kashmir authorities has constituted a committee to probe lapses within the Gulmarg gondola incidentin which a technical glitch within the cable automobile led to over 300 passengers being caught a number of meters above the bottom.
Officers of the Indian Military, J&Okay Police, and SDRF had been pressed into service to rescue all passengers caught in 65 cabins of the gondola on Could 25. Cable automobile providers have since remained suspended.
On Wednesday, the federal government stated a five-member committee headed by Managing Director, Kashmir Energy Distribution Company Ltd, Mehmood Shah, and together with Director Tourism Vikas Gupta and Chief Government Officer, Gulmarg Improvement Authority, Tariq Hussain, will conduct the probe.
The committee will confirm and set up the whole sequence of occasions resulting in the malfunctioning/technical failure of the cable automobile/gondola system, together with the circumstances “instantly previous, throughout, and subsequent to the incident”, the assertion stated.
On Could 25, Gulmarg Gondola, the cable automobile service that takes vacationers to the higher reaches of the vacationer vacation spot, developed a technical snag amid inclement climate, leaving 320 individuals stranded mid-air for hours earlier than they had been rescued.
The cable automobile runs in two phases, from the bottom to roughly 14,000 ft at Apharwat Peak.
Officers will even study all related information, data, stories, communications, and operational particulars crucial for arriving at a transparent understanding of the incident. They’ll, moreover, conduct an in depth technical examination of the malfunction and examine the character, trigger, and extent of the failure, together with examination of the mechanical, electrical, digital, braking, communication, management, and security techniques related to the operation of the cable automobile/gondola system.
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Current operational procedures, normal working procedures (SOPs)of the functioning of the gondola will even be reviewed, and “operational lapse, negligence, procedural deficiency, communication hole, supervisory failure, human error, or administrative shortcoming” that contributed instantly or not directly to the prevalence of the incident will even be probed by the committee.
The committee is anticipated to submit its report inside 10 days together with suggestions for “quick corrective measures” required for guaranteeing secure operation and restoration of the cable automobile, in addition to long-term technical, operational, administrative, and safety-related measures crucial to forestall recurrence of comparable incidents in future.
