{"id":83555,"date":"2021-02-18T18:03:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T12:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=83555"},"modified":"2021-03-01T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T08:19:08","slug":"what-is-the-char-dham-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-the-char-dham-project\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the &#8220;Char Dham Project&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the Supreme Court, the government denies any link between the Char Dham road-widening project and the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/glacial-lake-outburst-flood-glof-in-uttarakhand-explained\/\">flash floods in the Rishi Ganga valley<\/a>. It claimed many lives and damaged the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tapovan-vishnugad-hydropower-project\/\">Tapovan hydro project.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Char Dham Project:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Char-Dham Road Project is a prestigious two-lane expressway project. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is executing this program in Uttarakhand.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>The project proposes widening roads up to 10 meters to improve the accessibility to Char-Dham (shrines); Yamunotri, Gangotri, Badrinath, and Kedarnath.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Implementing Agencies: <\/strong>Uttarakhand State Public Works Department (PWD), Border Roads Organisation (BRO), and the National Highway &amp; Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Project Mode: <\/strong>The work under the program is being implemented in Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) mode.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Under the EPC model,<\/strong> the project cost is completely borne by the government. But the contractor is legally responsible to complete the project under some fixed predetermined timeline. It may also involve scope for a penalty in case of time overrun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chamba Tunnel:<\/strong> It is a 440-meter-long tunnel built by BRO on the Rishikesh-Dharasu road Highway(NH94) in Uttarakhand. The construction of the tunnel is a part of the Chardham project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/no-link-between-char-dham-road-widening-project-in-uttarakhand-and-flash-floods-govt-says-in-sc\/article33858807.ece\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? In the Supreme Court, the government denies any link between the Char Dham road-widening project and the recent flash floods in the Rishi Ganga valley. It claimed many lives and damaged the Tapovan hydro project. Char Dham Project: Char-Dham Road Project is a prestigious two-lane expressway project. The Ministry of Road&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-the-char-dham-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is the &#8220;Char Dham Project&#8221;?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,3127,9],"tags":[1400],"class_list":["post-83555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-economy","category-public","tag-eco_10","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":19,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700117033},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83555","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=83555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}