{"id":164205,"date":"2022-01-24T19:09:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T13:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=164205"},"modified":"2022-01-24T19:09:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T13:39:58","slug":"bro-conducts-final-blast-concluding-all-excavation-on-sela-tunnel-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bro-conducts-final-blast-concluding-all-excavation-on-sela-tunnel-project\/","title":{"rendered":"BRO conducts final blast concluding all excavation on Sela Tunnel Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Border Roads Organization(BRO) has conducted the final blast for the 980-meter-long Sela Tunnel (Tunnel 1). This marks the culmination of the excavation works on the complete Sela Tunnel Project.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Sela Tunnel Project?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-164206 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Sela-Tunnel.jpg?resize=536%2C357&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Sela-Tunnel.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Sela-Tunnel.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Sela-Tunnel.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Sela-Tunnel.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sela Tunnel Project is located in the West Kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tunnel<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a part of the Balipara-Chariduar-Tawang(BCT) road, one of the key strategic projects near the Chinese border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project comprises two tunnels:<strong> a)<\/strong> Tunnel 1 which is a 980 m long single tube tunnel and <strong>b)<\/strong> Tunnel 2, which is a 1555 m long twin-tube tunnel. Tunnel 2 has one bi-lane tube for traffic and one escape tube for emergencies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project also includes the construction of an approach road of seven kilometres to Tunnel 1, which takes off from BCT Road and a link road of 1.3 kilometres, which connects Tunnel 1 to Tunnel 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/keralas-first-road-tunnel-kuthiran-tunnel-opens-on-one-side\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kerala\u2019s first road tunnel \u201cKuthiran Tunnel\u201d opens on one side<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><b>What is the significance of the Sela<\/b><b> Tunnel Project?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once completed, the tunnel <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will be the longest twin-lane tunnel above 13,000 feet in the world and will <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">provide all-weather connectivity to Tawang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, the project will also <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">allow faster deployment of weapons and soldiers to forward areas in the Tawang sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span> <b>\u2018<\/b><b>BRO conducts final blast concluding all excavation on Sela Tunnel Project<\/b><b>\u2019<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>PIB <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on<\/span> <b>23rdJanuary 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Border Roads Organization(BRO) has conducted the final blast for the 980-meter-long Sela Tunnel (Tunnel 1). This marks the culmination of the excavation works on the complete Sela Tunnel Project. What is the Sela Tunnel Project? Sela Tunnel Project is located in the West Kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh.\u00a0 The tunnel is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bro-conducts-final-blast-concluding-all-excavation-on-sela-tunnel-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BRO conducts final blast concluding all excavation on Sela Tunnel Project<\/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":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-164205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700396025},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164205","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=164205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}