{"id":370451,"date":"2020-08-28T09:11:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T03:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370451"},"modified":"2020-08-28T11:53:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T06:23:29","slug":"after-a-decade-rohtang-tunnel-ready-for-opening-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/after-a-decade-rohtang-tunnel-ready-for-opening-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"After a decade, Rohtang Tunnel ready for opening next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rs 4,000-crore Rohtang Tunnel, the world&#8217;s longest motorable roadway at an altitude of over 3,000 metres, is ready for opening next month following the completion of civil works that began a decade ago. <\/p>\n<p>The tunnel will be opened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi by mid-September, Satish Paretkar, Director of Hydro &amp; Underground business unit at Afcons told PTI. <\/p>\n<p>A joint venture of Shapoorji Pallonji Group-run Afcons and Strabag of Austria won the Engineering Procurement &amp; Construction (EPC) tender for Rs 1,458 crore from Border Road Organisation in 2009. <\/p>\n<p>The cost of the project has crossed Rs 2,500 crore now, he said. The civil works started in 2009 and were to be completed within 6.5 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rs 4,000-crore Rohtang Tunnel, the world&#8217;s longest motorable roadway at an altitude of over 3,000 metres, is ready for opening next month following the completion of civil works that began a decade ago. The tunnel will be opened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi by mid-September, Satish Paretkar, Director of Hydro &amp; Underground business unit at Afcons told PTI. A joint venture of Shapoorji Pallonji Group-run Afcons and Strabag of Austria won the Engineering Procurement &amp; Construction (EPC) tender for Rs 1,458 crore from Border Road Organisation in 2009. The cost of the project has crossed Rs 2,500 crore now, [&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":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370451","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=370451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}