{"id":347598,"date":"2025-10-08T15:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=347598"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:19:04","slug":"mig-la-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mig-la-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Mig La Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>News: <\/strong>Project Himank of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has recently achieved a remarkable feat by constructing the world\u2019s highest motorable road at Mig La Pass in Ladakh.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">About Mig La Pass<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1NRFK7.img?w=768&amp;h=432&amp;m=6\" alt=\"BRO completes world\u2019s highest motorable road at Mig La Pass, surpassing Umling La\" width=\"439\" height=\"247\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Mig La Pass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Location: Mig La Pass<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (also called <\/span><b>Migla Pass<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) is located on the<strong> Changthang Plateau in Ladakh.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It has become the <\/span><b>highest motorable mountain pass in the world<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Altitude<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: 19,400 feet (<strong>5,913 m)<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is <strong>taller<\/strong> than <\/span>both the<b> South Base Camp of Mount Everest in Nepal (17,598 feet) <\/b>and the<b> North Base Camp in Tibet <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(16,900 feet).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <strong>Border Roads Organisation (BRO)<\/strong> has laid a<\/span><b> route across Mig La Pass.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The road forms a crucial segment of the <\/span><b>Likaru\u2013Mig La\u2013Fukche alignment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It connects the <\/span><b>Hanle region<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to <\/span><b>Fukche village<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, located close to the <\/span><b>Line of Actual Control (LAC)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This road construction was carried out under <\/span><b>Project Himank<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Strategic Significance :<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Likaru\u2013Mig La\u2013Fukche connectivity<\/span><b> holds immense strategic importance for India\u2019s border infrastructure and national security.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This corridor forms the <\/span><b>third vital axis from the Hanle sector to the Indo-China border. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">About Project Himank<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_347619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-347619\" style=\"width: 389px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-347619\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-BRO.jpg?resize=389%2C257&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-BRO.jpg?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-BRO.jpg?resize=1024%2C678&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-BRO.jpg?resize=768%2C508&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-BRO.jpg?w=1327&amp;ssl=1 1327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-347619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; BRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The project was started on <\/span><b>4 December 1985<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong> at<\/strong> <\/span><b>Leh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with the objective of <strong>developing road communication across the <\/strong><\/span><b>Ladakh region<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Executed by:<\/strong> Border Roads Organisation <strong>(BRO)<\/strong> under the Ministry of Defence.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The personnel of this project have<\/span><b> played a pivotal role in constructing and maintaining roads and airfields<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in some of the most challenging and inhospitable terrains.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It<\/span><b> ensures uninterrupted connectivity to strategic areas <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">along the LAC with China and <\/span><b>was instrumental in keeping the Leh\u2013Manali and Zojila routes <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">operational during <\/span><b>Operation Vijay<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This effort maintained vital supply lines and road communication to regions adjoining the <\/span><b>Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Project Himank of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has recently achieved a remarkable feat by constructing the world\u2019s highest motorable road at Mig La Pass in Ladakh. About Mig La Pass\u00a0 Location: Mig La Pass (also called Migla Pass) is located on the Changthang Plateau in Ladakh. It has become the highest motorable mountain&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mig-la-pass\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mig La Pass<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11959,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,10752],"class_list":["post-347598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-defence","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-ndtv","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347598","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}