{"id":23417,"date":"2015-07-13T11:49:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T11:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=23417"},"modified":"2015-07-13T11:49:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T11:49:34","slug":"gadkari-to-witness-opening-of-indias-longest-road-tunnel-in-udhampur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gadkari-to-witness-opening-of-indias-longest-road-tunnel-in-udhampur\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadkari to witness opening of India&#8217;s longest road tunnel in Udhampur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari will witness the opening of India&#8217;s longest road tunnel in Udhampur on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The tunnel will cut the distance between Jammu and Srinagar by 30-kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>An official release said that the tunnel will also reduce traffic jams on National Highway-1A that occur due to snowfall.<\/p>\n<p>It said Gadkari will be present at the final blast ceremony when the National Highway Authority of India engineers will drill a hole through the final section of the tunnel between Chenani and Nashri.<\/p>\n<p>The tunnel is 9.2 kilomters long and is part of the ambitious 286 km-long four-laning of the Jammu-Srinagar national highway.<\/p>\n<p>The road is likely to be opened to traffic in July 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari will witness the opening of India&#8217;s longest road tunnel in Udhampur on Monday. The tunnel will cut the distance between Jammu and Srinagar by 30-kilometers. An official release said that the tunnel will also reduce traffic jams on National Highway-1A that occur due to snowfall. It said Gadkari will be present at the final blast ceremony when the National Highway Authority of India engineers will drill a hole through the final section of the tunnel between Chenani and Nashri. The tunnel is 9.2 kilomters long and is part of the ambitious 286 km-long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roads"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}