{"id":370023,"date":"2020-08-26T11:06:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T05:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370023"},"modified":"2020-08-26T12:03:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T06:33:13","slug":"hp-bro-puts-finishing-touches-to-atal-tunnel-ahead-of-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hp-bro-puts-finishing-touches-to-atal-tunnel-ahead-of-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"HP: BRO puts finishing touches to Atal Tunnel ahead of inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Prime Minister Narendra Modi scheduled to inaugurate it in a month\u2019s time, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is busy giving finishing touches to the strategic 9-km long Atal Tunnel under the Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>Originally designed as a 8.8-km long tunnel and named after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in a tribute to him on his 95th birth anniversary, fresh GPS readings taken by the BRO after the work on it was completed showed that it was 9 km in length. The tunnel will be the world\u2019s longest above an altitude of 3,000 metres and will reduce the distance between Manali and Leh by 46 kilometres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Prime Minister Narendra Modi scheduled to inaugurate it in a month\u2019s time, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is busy giving finishing touches to the strategic 9-km long Atal Tunnel under the Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh. Originally designed as a 8.8-km long tunnel and named after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in a tribute to him on his 95th birth anniversary, fresh GPS readings taken by the BRO after the work on it was completed showed that it was 9 km in length. The tunnel will be the world\u2019s longest above an altitude of 3,000 metres and will [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370023","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=370023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}