{"id":103683,"date":"2021-04-27T18:20:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T12:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=103683"},"modified":"2021-04-27T21:50:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T16:20:30","slug":"project-dantak-completes-60-years-in-bhutan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/project-dantak-completes-60-years-in-bhutan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Project DANTAK&#8221; Completes 60 years in Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?\u00a0<\/strong>Project DANTAK is commemorating its Diamond Jubilee i.e 60 years in Bhutan.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>About Project DANTAK<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Project DANTAK <\/strong>was established in 1961 under the leadership of the Third King of Bhutan and then Indian Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective: <\/strong>It was established with the objective of developing roads, telecommunication networks and other such landmark infrastructure-related projects in Bhutan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Agency: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bro-celebrates-59th-raising-day\/\">Border Roads Organisation(BRO)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Key Achievements of the Project:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firstly, Project DANTAK <\/strong>completed the road connecting Samdrup Jongkhar to Trashigang in 1968. In the same year, Thimphu was connected to Phuentsholing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondly, Some other notable projects executed by the project <\/strong>include the construction of Paro Airport, Yonphula Airfield, Thimphu \u2013 Trashigang Highway, Telecommunication &amp; Hydro Power Infrastructure, Sherubtse College, Kanglung and India House Estate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thirdly, the medical and education facilities<\/strong> established by DANTAK in far-flung areas were often the first in those locations<\/li>\n<li><strong>Further,<\/strong> the project also established food outlets along the road. The<strong>\u00a0famous Takthi Canteen midway <\/strong>between Phuentsholing and Thimphu is a compulsory stop for travellers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1714170\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News?\u00a0Project DANTAK is commemorating its Diamond Jubilee i.e 60 years in Bhutan. \u00a0About Project DANTAK Project DANTAK was established in 1961 under the leadership of the Third King of Bhutan and then Indian Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru. Objective: It was established with the objective of developing roads, telecommunication networks and other&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/project-dantak-completes-60-years-in-bhutan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Project DANTAK&#8221; Completes 60 years in Bhutan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,164,9],"tags":[1457],"class_list":["post-103683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-ir_02","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704765151},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}