{"id":180849,"date":"2022-04-23T20:41:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T15:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=180849"},"modified":"2022-04-23T20:41:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T15:11:26","slug":"india-to-get-worlds-longest-and-highest-tunnel-in-himachal-by-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-to-get-worlds-longest-and-highest-tunnel-in-himachal-by-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"India to get world\u2019s longest and highest tunnel in Himachal by 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India will soon be home to the world&#8217;s longest highway tunnel beneath Shinku-La Pass.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><b>What is the Shinku-La Tunnel?\u00a0<\/b><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Shinku-La tunnel will be built <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at Shinku La Pass at an altitude of 16,580ft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tunnel <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will be 4.25 km in length. It will provide all-weather connectivity between Ladakh and Himachal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Built by<\/strong>: Border Roads Organization(BRO) under Project Yojak by 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Significance:<\/strong> Once constructed, it will be the world\u2019s longest and highest tunnel at this altitude.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About Shinku-La Pass<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_180872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180872\" style=\"width: 469px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-180872 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ezgif-5-0a4eb63bfd.jpg?resize=469%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ezgif-5-0a4eb63bfd.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ezgif-5-0a4eb63bfd.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ezgif-5-0a4eb63bfd.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ezgif-5-0a4eb63bfd.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ezgif-5-0a4eb63bfd.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ezgif-5-0a4eb63bfd.jpg?resize=1568%2C882&amp;ssl=1 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Hindustan Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shinku-La Pass is a mountain pass between Zanskar Valley in Ladakh and Lahaul Valley in Himachal Pradesh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This pass may be considered as an entry point to Lugnak Valley in Zanskar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>India to get world\u2019s longest and highest tunnel in Himachal by 2025<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Indian Express <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on<\/span> <b>20th April 2022<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? India will soon be home to the world&#8217;s longest highway tunnel beneath Shinku-La Pass. What is the Shinku-La Tunnel?\u00a0 The Shinku-La tunnel will be built at Shinku La Pass at an altitude of 16,580ft. The tunnel will be 4.25 km in length. It will provide all-weather connectivity between Ladakh and Himachal.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-to-get-worlds-longest-and-highest-tunnel-in-himachal-by-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India to get world\u2019s longest and highest tunnel in Himachal by 2025<\/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":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-180849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":19,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701644177},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180849","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=180849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}