{"id":367426,"date":"2020-08-11T12:16:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T06:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=367426"},"modified":"2020-08-11T12:48:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T07:18:14","slug":"jk-to-build-600-km-highway-along-border-to-explore-tourist-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/jk-to-build-600-km-highway-along-border-to-explore-tourist-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"JK to build 600 km highway along border to explore tourist sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 600 km-long highway will be constructed along the border touching all picturesque tourist spots in Kashmir, each of which will be \u201canother Gulmarg\u201d, J&amp;K Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam has said. <\/p>\n<p>The Rs 8,000 crore road project will connect Gulmarg with Kargil and Drass in Ladakh. \u201cWe are planning to construct a 600 km road which will touch tourist attractions like Keran, Gurej and Machhal. The road will connect all unexplored tourist spots and picturesque valleys and help open them for the tourists,\u201d Subrahmanyam told a group of visiting journalists. <\/p>\n<p>The Chief Secretary said there will be 12 to 13 major tunnels along the road and it will also facilitate connectivity to the forward locations. \u201cEach of these tourist locations will be another Gulmarg,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 600 km-long highway will be constructed along the border touching all picturesque tourist spots in Kashmir, each of which will be \u201canother Gulmarg\u201d, J&amp;K Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam has said. The Rs 8,000 crore road project will connect Gulmarg with Kargil and Drass in Ladakh. \u201cWe are planning to construct a 600 km road which will touch tourist attractions like Keran, Gurej and Machhal. The road will connect all unexplored tourist spots and picturesque valleys and help open them for the tourists,\u201d Subrahmanyam told a group of visiting journalists. The Chief Secretary said there will be 12 to 13 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,130,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greater-kashmir","category-newspapers","category-roads-greater-kashmir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367426","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}