{"id":606548,"date":"2023-09-26T10:19:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T04:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=606548"},"modified":"2023-09-26T11:43:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T06:13:24","slug":"the-worlds-highest-motorable-road-and-its-strategic-significance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/the-worlds-highest-motorable-road-and-its-strategic-significance\/","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s highest motorable road and its strategic significance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Border Roads Organisation (BRO), tasked with building and maintaining road networks along the frontiers, has set about breaking its own record of building the world\u2019s highest motorable road in Ladakh, which is of immense strategic importance. <\/p>\n<p>On August 15, it began construction of the Likaru-Mig La-Fukche road in south-eastern Ladakh, which touching at altitude of 19,400 feet will be higher than the Chishumle-Demchok road over the 19.024-foot-high Umling La. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe works are being executed by BRO\u2019s Project Himank based at Leh and the Border Roads Task Force responsible for the construction is headed by a woman officer, Col Ponung Doming,\u201d Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhary, Director-General Border Roads, said during a visit to Chandigarh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Border Roads Organisation (BRO), tasked with building and maintaining road networks along the frontiers, has set about breaking its own record of building the world\u2019s highest motorable road in Ladakh, which is of immense strategic importance. On August 15, it began construction of the Likaru-Mig La-Fukche road in south-eastern Ladakh, which touching at altitude of 19,400 feet will be higher than the Chishumle-Demchok road over the 19.024-foot-high Umling La. \u201cThe works are being executed by BRO\u2019s Project Himank based at Leh and the Border Roads Task Force responsible for the construction is headed by a woman officer, Col Ponung [&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":[130,225,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606548","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=606548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}