{"id":378633,"date":"2020-10-15T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T05:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=378633"},"modified":"2020-10-15T12:34:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T07:04:05","slug":"j-k-gadkari-to-initiate-first-blasting-for-zoji-la-tunnel-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/j-k-gadkari-to-initiate-first-blasting-for-zoji-la-tunnel-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"J-K: Gadkari to initiate first blasting for Zoji-la Tunnel tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Nitin Gadkari will initiate the first blasting for Zoji-la Tunnel in Jammu &amp; Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>The tunnel project holds strategic significance as Zoji-la Pass is situated at an altitude of 11,578 feet on the 434-km Srinagar-Kargil-Leh national highway and remains closed during winters due to heavy snowfall, cutting off Ladakh region from Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>It involves construction of a 14.15 Km long tunnel at an altitude of about 3,000 m under Zojila pass (presently motorable only for 6 months in a year) on NH-1 connecting Srinagar and Leh through Dras and Kargil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Nitin Gadkari will initiate the first blasting for Zoji-la Tunnel in Jammu &amp; Kashmir. The tunnel project holds strategic significance as Zoji-la Pass is situated at an altitude of 11,578 feet on the 434-km Srinagar-Kargil-Leh national highway and remains closed during winters due to heavy snowfall, cutting off Ladakh region from Kashmir. It involves construction of a 14.15 Km long tunnel at an altitude of about 3,000 m under Zojila pass (presently motorable only for 6 months in a year) on NH-1 connecting Srinagar and Leh through Dras and Kargil.<\/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":[139,130,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-roads-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378633","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=378633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}