{"id":379775,"date":"2020-10-21T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T06:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=379775"},"modified":"2020-10-21T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T07:30:26","slug":"india-plans-10-tunnels-in-kashmir-ladakh-for-military-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-plans-10-tunnels-in-kashmir-ladakh-for-military-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"India plans 10 tunnels in Kashmir, Ladakh for military movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India plans to build 10 tunnels, totalling more than 100 kilometres in length, in high-altitude areas of the Ladakh and Kashmir regions for smooth movement of the military throughout the year. <\/p>\n<p>The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has proposed eight tunnels to enhance all-weather connectivity to Ladakh and Kashmir, and to forward areas in both regions. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few tunnels would be at the 17,000 feet level, to connect forward locations,\u201d a source said.<\/p>\n<p>Among those planned is the seven-km Khardung La Tunnel, connecting Leh to the Nubra Valley, a strategically important area of Ladakh bordering both China and Pakistan. Another eight-km tunnel, at 17,580 feet level, is planned to connect Karu to Tangste in Ladakh, and will ensure all weather movement to areas close to the Pangong Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India plans to build 10 tunnels, totalling more than 100 kilometres in length, in high-altitude areas of the Ladakh and Kashmir regions for smooth movement of the military throughout the year. The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has proposed eight tunnels to enhance all-weather connectivity to Ladakh and Kashmir, and to forward areas in both regions. \u201cA few tunnels would be at the 17,000 feet level, to connect forward locations,\u201d a source said. Among those planned is the seven-km Khardung La Tunnel, connecting Leh to the Nubra Valley, a strategically important area of Ladakh bordering both China and Pakistan. Another eight-km [&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-379775","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\/379775","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=379775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}