On 28 December 2021, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated as many as 27 projects built by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO). These included 24 bridges and three roads, mostly located in the border areas. Now, one of the newly launched 24 bridges is on the world\u2019s highest motorable road, passing through a pass situated at 19,000 feet elevation. Located in south Ladakh, the road connects Chisumle and Demchok. It passes through Umling La pass, which is over 19,000 feet height. The pass height makes it the world\u2019s highest motorable road and was recognized as such by Guinness World Records recently, according to an IE report.<\/p>\n
The 52 km long \u2018black-top\u2019 tarmac Chisumle-Demchok road in Ladakh was built under extremely challenging conditions, as in the region, temperatures can fall below minus 40 degrees Celsius, as well as oxygen levels go down to 50% below normal. The union minister, however, did not inaugurate the entire road on Tuesday, but one of the bridges on the road, which completed the axis. The 60-metre long bridge has been constructed at the point called Km 99.3 on the road, the report stated. Officials in the defence establishment said for at least the last four years, vehicles had been crossing the Umling La pass. However, now the road at the pass has been black-topped, making the journey easier, as well as qualifying it for the Guinness World Record honour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On 28 December 2021, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated as many as 27 projects built by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO). These included 24 bridges and three roads, mostly located in the border areas. Now, one of the newly launched 24 bridges is on the world\u2019s highest motorable road, passing through a pass situated at 19,000 feet elevation. Located in south Ladakh, the road connects Chisumle and Demchok. It passes through Umling La pass, which is over 19,000 feet height. The pass height makes it the world\u2019s highest motorable road and was recognized as such by Guinness World Records recently, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460168","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}