Rohtang Tunnel to become a reality
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vivek2009
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But 1/4th of the real fun to travelling to leh from Manali will be reduced no doubt a boon for the people in Keylong and areas adjoing it,
but "Calm seas never make good sailors"........
I hope they dont close the pass permanently..............
and i learnt from the taxi wala during my last year trip to manali he was saying that for the first few years civilian vehicles wont be allowed unless it is desperately needed during winter.........
but "Calm seas never make good sailors"........
I hope they dont close the pass permanently..............
and i learnt from the taxi wala during my last year trip to manali he was saying that for the first few years civilian vehicles wont be allowed unless it is desperately needed during winter.........
Please read it once again Mr Vedi. This tunnel will just bypass Rohtang and will make Keylong accessible not Leh. There are several other high passes after Rohtang, like Barlachla, Nakeela, Lachulungla, the mightiest and most treachrous of them all, the Tanglang la.
The whole plan is to make Manali-Leh an all weather road. After Rotang Tunnel another tunnel is proposed between Darcha and Shinku La. Read here
The alignment of the existing highway will be changed after Darcha. The new road will take a left bifurcation to Nimu via Shinkula to circumvent the mountain passes of Baralacha, Nakila, Lachungla and Tanglagla and rejoin the highway at Padam. These passes remain snowbound for seven to eight months in a year.
The 9-km Rohtang tunnel will help reduce the distance between Manali and Koksar in Lahaul valley by 46 km and will remain open for most part of the year. The 3-km tunnel under the Shinkula Pass will shorten the distance between Darcha and Padam by around 50 km. The new road will help circumvent the stretch that received maximum snow during winter.
The new road will circumvent Baralacha, Nakila, Lachungla and Tanglagla passes.
It will make the 470-km highway shorter by around 100 km.
The maximum elevation will not exceed 12,500 ft at any point.
For the first time in the country, snow galleries will be constructed at avalanche points.
Read the whole plan here
ramkya1
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I hope this whole project would take another 25 years to complete and wish it would be delayed by government sanctions, red-tape, sectionalism, confusions, lack of funds, implimenetation gaps, co-ordination gaps, politics (my best hope), landslides, avalanches, snowfalls and anything else I have missed.
Once the tunnel and road is compleated the pristine beauty of Padum and hills around is going to be vandalized by indifferent tourists like many hill stations I have seen including Mt.Titlis in Switzerland.
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Whoever can think rationally won't disagree this point, spot on! Though I was reading in some blogs of Zanskar that this road is in making at a very high speed.
This is the perennial debate between invasaion of mass tourism and the development of locals and the adjoining area. Roads and infrastructure are definitely required but what lacks is consciousness among the so called "indifferent tourist".
Alok Sharma
Mountain Goat....!!
Please refer to the link
<<http://bro.nic.in/indexmain.asp?lang=&projectid=29>> , the project was conceptualised in 1983...
..and it got nod now...the rest of route is still on discussion table...
Another one:
<<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohtang_Tunnel>>
<<http://bro.nic.in/indexmain.asp?lang=&projectid=29>> , the project was conceptualised in 1983...
..and it got nod now...the rest of route is still on discussion table...Another one:
<<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohtang_Tunnel>>
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Dr.akashdeep
Highlander Akash
well sonia gandhi will inograte the work for tunnel on 28th june offitialy .
Well there is another road from zanskar valley is proposed to leh from manali as told by locals which will keep leh road open for whole year and there will be only one small pass will be left to cross
Well there is another road from zanskar valley is proposed to leh from manali as told by locals which will keep leh road open for whole year and there will be only one small pass will be left to cross
Indizen
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Sonia to lay Rohtang tunnel's foundation stone June 28
Congress president Sonia Gandhi would lay the foundation stone of the Rohtang tunnel in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu district June 28, Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh said on Thursday.
"The stone of the Rohtang tunnel (near Manali) would be laid by UPA (United Progressive Alliance) chairperson Sonia Gandhi June 28," Singh told reporters here.
Defence Minister A.K. Antony and Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir's chief ministers Prem Kumar Dhumal and Omar Abdullah respectively would also be present on the occasion, he said.
The 8.80-km-long horseshoe shaped tunnel, under the Rohtang Pass (13,050 feet), will provide all-weather connectivity to the state’s Lahaul and Spiti districts that remain cut off from the rest of the country for more than four months owing to the closure of the pass due to heavy snowfall.
"Work on the construction of Rohtang tunnel will be completed by 2015," Border Roads Organisation's (BRO) chief engineer (Rohtang tunnel project) P.K. Mahajan said.
The BRO constructs and maintains road links along the international border.
The central cabinet committee on security in September 2009 approved Afcons Infrastructure, in collaboration with European firm Strabag, as the building contractor for the tunnel.
"The cabinet committee has approved Rs.1,495 crore for the project," Singh said.
The tunnel, some 300 km from Shimla, will reduce the distance by road between Manali and Leh in Jammu and Kashmir by 40 km. At present, the distance between the two is 475 km.
The Manali-Leh highway also plays an important role in the movement of the armed forces to the forward areas in Ladakh.
Sonia to lay Rohtang tunnel's foundation stone June 28- Hindustan Times
Congress president Sonia Gandhi would lay the foundation stone of the Rohtang tunnel in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu district June 28, Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh said on Thursday.
"The stone of the Rohtang tunnel (near Manali) would be laid by UPA (United Progressive Alliance) chairperson Sonia Gandhi June 28," Singh told reporters here.
Defence Minister A.K. Antony and Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir's chief ministers Prem Kumar Dhumal and Omar Abdullah respectively would also be present on the occasion, he said.
The 8.80-km-long horseshoe shaped tunnel, under the Rohtang Pass (13,050 feet), will provide all-weather connectivity to the state’s Lahaul and Spiti districts that remain cut off from the rest of the country for more than four months owing to the closure of the pass due to heavy snowfall.
"Work on the construction of Rohtang tunnel will be completed by 2015," Border Roads Organisation's (BRO) chief engineer (Rohtang tunnel project) P.K. Mahajan said.
The BRO constructs and maintains road links along the international border.
The central cabinet committee on security in September 2009 approved Afcons Infrastructure, in collaboration with European firm Strabag, as the building contractor for the tunnel.
"The cabinet committee has approved Rs.1,495 crore for the project," Singh said.
The tunnel, some 300 km from Shimla, will reduce the distance by road between Manali and Leh in Jammu and Kashmir by 40 km. At present, the distance between the two is 475 km.
The Manali-Leh highway also plays an important role in the movement of the armed forces to the forward areas in Ladakh.
Sonia to lay Rohtang tunnel's foundation stone June 28- Hindustan Times
MonkeyBoy4u
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Sonia to lay Rohtang tunnel’s foundation stone on June 28
External source : Tribune India
Manali, June 24
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will lay the foundation stone of the long-delayed 8.8-km-long horseshoe-shaped Rohtang tunnel, about 24 km from here, on June 28. The Rohtang tunnel under the Pir Panjal ranges will provide all-weather connectivity to the tribal area of Lahaul-Spiti and Pangi valley, which gets cut off from the Manali side during winter months due to heavy snow on the 13,050-ft-high Rohtang Pass.
Border Roads Organisation (BRO) chief engineer (Project Rohtang Tunnel) PK Mahajan said the single-tube double-lane Rohtang tunnel, which would reduce distance of the Manali-Leh highway by about 46 km, would be ready by 2015. He said the tunnel would be strategically important for the Indian Army in the border areas of Leh-Ladakh. After completion of the Rohtang Tunnel it will also help in promoting cultural and adventure tourism in the Lahaul valley and all agricultural produce of the tribal valley will have all-weather access to market, Mahajan added.
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External source : Tribune India
Manali, June 24
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will lay the foundation stone of the long-delayed 8.8-km-long horseshoe-shaped Rohtang tunnel, about 24 km from here, on June 28. The Rohtang tunnel under the Pir Panjal ranges will provide all-weather connectivity to the tribal area of Lahaul-Spiti and Pangi valley, which gets cut off from the Manali side during winter months due to heavy snow on the 13,050-ft-high Rohtang Pass.
Border Roads Organisation (BRO) chief engineer (Project Rohtang Tunnel) PK Mahajan said the single-tube double-lane Rohtang tunnel, which would reduce distance of the Manali-Leh highway by about 46 km, would be ready by 2015. He said the tunnel would be strategically important for the Indian Army in the border areas of Leh-Ladakh. After completion of the Rohtang Tunnel it will also help in promoting cultural and adventure tourism in the Lahaul valley and all agricultural produce of the tribal valley will have all-weather access to market, Mahajan added.
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