{"id":41788,"date":"2018-01-03T23:16:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T18:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41788"},"modified":"2022-02-26T13:32:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T08:32:48","slug":"india-plans-tunnel-in-iok-that-will-connect-leh-all-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41788","title":{"rendered":"India plans tunnel in IOK that will connect Leh all year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, Jan. 3 (TNS):\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Indian government on Wednesday approved the\u00a0Rs.\u00a06,809-crore strategic Zojila pass tunnel project in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOK) to provide all-weather connectivity between Srinagar, Kargil and Leh, which remains cut-off from the rest of the world during winters due to heavy snowfall.<\/p>\n<p>Zojila pass is situated at an altitude of 11,578 feet on Srinagar-Kargil-Leh Highway which remains closed during winters (December to April) due to heavy snowfall and avalanches cutting off Leh-Ladakh region from occupied Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;IndianCabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given its approval to the construction, operation and maintenance of 2-lane bi-directional Zojila Tunnel with Parallel Escape (Egress) Tunnel excluding approaches on Srinagar-Leh section connecting NH-1A at Km 95 and at Km 118 in [Indian occupied] Jammu and Kashmir on engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) mode,&#8221; Indian Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said apart from providing all weather connectivity between Srinagar, Kargil and Leh, the project will bring about all round economic and socio-cultural integration of these regions.<br \/>buy dapoxetine online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pharmalucence.com\/wp-content\/languages\/en\/dapoxetine.html\">www.pharmalucence.com\/wp-content\/languages\/en\/dapoxetine.html<\/a> no prescription<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The project has strategic and socio-economic importance and shall be an instrument for the development of the economically backward districts in [Indian occupied] Jammu and Kashmir,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jan. 3 (TNS):\u00a0\u00a0Indian government on Wednesday approved the\u00a0Rs.\u00a06,809-crore strategic Zojila pass tunnel project in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOK) to provide all-weather connectivity between Srinagar, Kargil and Leh, which remains cut-off from the rest of the world during winters due to heavy snowfall. Zojila pass is situated at an altitude of 11,578 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,736],"tags":[932,737],"class_list":["post-41788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-new-delhi","tag-international","tag-new-delhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103642,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41788\/revisions\/103642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}