{"id":12545,"date":"2019-12-25T16:51:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T11:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12545"},"modified":"2019-12-25T16:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T11:21:51","slug":"rohtang-tunnel-in-himachal-pradesh-named-as-atal-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rohtang-tunnel-in-himachal-pradesh-named-as-atal-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohtang tunnel in Himachal Pradesh named as Atal tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Union Cabinet has decided to name the Rohtang Tunnel under Rohtang Pass after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Atal Tunnel:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Atal tunnel is an 8.8-kilometre-long under Rohtang Pass.It will become the world\u2019s longest highway tunnel above 10,000 feet.<\/li><li>The tunnel is present on the Pir Panjal Range of Himalayas.The tunnel project is being carried out by the Border Roads Organisation(BRO).<\/li><li>The tunnel will provide all-weather connectivity to remote border areas of Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh which otherwise remained cut off from the rest of the country for about six months during winters.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Rohtang Pass:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Rohtang Pass (elevation 3,978 m) is located in the state of Himachal Pradesh.<\/li><li>It is present on the Pir Panjal Range of Himalayas.It connects the Kullu Valley with Lahaul and Spiti Valleys of Himachal Pradesh.<\/li><li>The Ravi river rises west of the Rohtang pass in the Kullu hills of Himachal Pradesh.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/jVrcMNeo-cN49DpVc9FJGSgboUPy5fUtraTiM1IeA14JFxm7lSOOVLzeaSTWf9Flx2-TZfc9jPO2--JfMBgYWMl3OqDx4U7SLqLazKtoDUgby9KCHIYLiMD7DqUxjOzF6BnCWsA8\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Union Cabinet has decided to name the Rohtang Tunnel under Rohtang Pass after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Facts: About Atal Tunnel: Atal tunnel is an 8.8-kilometre-long under Rohtang Pass.It will become the world\u2019s longest highway tunnel above 10,000 feet. The tunnel is present on the Pir Panjal Range of Himalayas.The tunnel project&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rohtang-tunnel-in-himachal-pradesh-named-as-atal-tunnel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rohtang tunnel in Himachal Pradesh named as Atal tunnel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6820,4973],"class_list":["post-12545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-atal-tunnel","tag-rohtang-pass","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700774821,"cached_date":1704812863},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12545","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}