Chardham Tunnel

Category
Miscellaneous
Published
2nd Jun, 2020

The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has achieved a major milestone in the construction of a 440-m tunnel below the densely populated Chambatown on the Rishikesh-Dharasu road (NH 94) in Uttarakhand.

The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has achieved a major milestone in the construction of a 440-m tunnel below the densely populated Chambatown on the Rishikesh-Dharasu road (NH 94) in Uttarakhand.
The achievement is part of efforts to boost the annual Chardham yatra.
Under the Chardham project costing about ?12,000 crore, the BRO is constructing 250 km of the national highways leading to the holy shrines of Gangotri and Badrinath.
Five projects are slated for completion by October 2020.