{"id":374889,"date":"2020-09-23T12:11:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T06:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374889"},"modified":"2020-09-23T13:10:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T07:40:31","slug":"worlds-longest-high-altitude-tunnel-fully-ready-to-open-in-himachal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/worlds-longest-high-altitude-tunnel-fully-ready-to-open-in-himachal\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s longest high-altitude tunnel fully ready to open in Himachal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8221;s longest high-altitude tunnel on Manali-Leh national highway is fully ready to open in Himachal Pradesh&#8221;s Lahaul-Spiti district, a senior Border Road Organisation (BRO) official said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 9-km Atal tunnel built at an altitude of about 10,000 feet above sea level in Lahaul Spiti&#8221;s Rohtang is likely to be formally inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in coming weeks, said BRO Chief Engineer, Brigadier K P Purshothaman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;We are ready for its opening anytime after September 25. PM may open it in the last week of this month or first week of the next month,\u201d Brig K P Purshothaman told PTI.<\/p>\n<p>No official confirmation has been received so far, we may get it within a couple of days, he said, adding it is also not yet clear if it would be a virtual opening due to the corona crisis or a physical one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8221;s longest high-altitude tunnel on Manali-Leh national highway is fully ready to open in Himachal Pradesh&#8221;s Lahaul-Spiti district, a senior Border Road Organisation (BRO) official said on Sunday. The 9-km Atal tunnel built at an altitude of about 10,000 feet above sea level in Lahaul Spiti&#8221;s Rohtang is likely to be formally inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in coming weeks, said BRO Chief Engineer, Brigadier K P Purshothaman. &#8221;We are ready for its opening anytime after September 25. PM may open it in the last week of this month or first week of the next month,\u201d Brig K [&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":[130,213,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374889","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=374889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}