BRO reopens strategic Leh-Manali Highway in record 138 days
The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has opened strategically important Leh-Manali Highway (NH 3) in record time of 138 days after clearing snow. Last year, it took 144 days for the BRO to open the highway for traffic.
The key road opened for traffic on Saturday is 427 km long highway connecting Ladakh to the rest of India via Manali, having strategic importance for the movement of the armed forces and their supplies to forward areas in Ladakh, as well as connecting the people of Ladakh to India, officials said here.
The highway is an alternate route to the 422 km long Srinagar-Kargil-Leh Highway (NH-1D) which was opened by the BRO on March 16.
