In the city, curfew was clamped in 11 police station areas. "Areas under the jurisdiction of police stations of district Srinagar - Batamloo, Bemina, Qamarwari, Kralkhud, Nowhatta, Khanyar, M.R. Gunj, Safakadal, Maisuma, Shaheedgunj and Abi-guzar area of police station, Kothibagh will remain under curfew from 6 am till further orders", District Magistrate, Srinagar, Mehraj Ahmad Kakroo said.
However, the law enforcing agencies have been advised to allow the movement of government employees after showing their identity cards.
The District Magistrate said police and paramilitary personnel will also regulate movement of patients and their attendants on production of identity cards.
Police said restrictions on the movement of people have been imposed in Bijbehara, Anantnag and Budgam towns as a precautionary measure.
The hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, spearheading the ongoing agitation, has called for a complete shutdown and sit-in protests across the Valley.
Shops and business markets, educational institutions, banks and private offices remained closed and all modes of transports was off the roads in response to the separatists' call for strike.
The Valley was rocked by violence following the death of a teenager on June 11 after he was allegedly hit by a teargas shell near Rajouri Kadal area of old city. After that street protests broke out in the valley which has claimed 63 lives so far.