NE NEWS SERVICE
RISHIKESH, MAY 26
BRO DG Lt Gen. Harpal Singh on Tuesday connected the northern and southern portals of a 440-metre underground tunnel in Uttarakhand’s Tehri district, which is part of the all-weather Chardham road project.
Happy to announce that our Border Roads Organisation (BRO) team has made a major breakthrough in Chardham Project. They have successfully dug up 440 m long Tunnel below the busy Chamba town on Rishikesh-Dharasu road Highway(NH 94). #PragatiKaHighway pic.twitter.com/uUtkylpYft
— Nitin Gadkari (मोदी का परिवार) (@nitin_gadkari) May 26, 2020
“Work on the tunnel, fraught with risks, had begun in January. Now that the two gates of the tunnel have been linked, its cementing and concrete work will begin,” Ashu Singh Rathore, chief engineer of the Border Roads Organisation’s (BRO) Project Shivalik, which is building the tunnel, said.
Digging the 440-metre-long underground tunnel, over which the town of Chamba is located, was highly risky with the danger of landslides always lurking around, he said.
However, despite the difficult terrain and constraints of the ongoing lockdown, a significant part of the work on the project is over, Rathore said.
Project Shivalik has been assigned the job of building 249 km of road to Badrinath and Gangotri as part of the Rs 12,000-crore all-weather Chardham project.
