Special telephone booths have been established to help common public communicate with their relatives on the occasion of the festival.
The restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir have been partially lifted.
The former Indian foreign minister Salman Khurshid said that the decision of Pakistan would not impact India, rather it would affect them badly.
Initially, Article 370 was incorporated as a temporary provision to the Constitution to allow Jammu and Kashmir to have its own constitution and flag
A bill was passed in Rajya Sabha to bifurcate J&K into two Union Territories, Jammu and Kashmir with a legislature and Ladakh without legislature.