{"id":3007,"date":"2023-02-18T12:35:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T07:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T04:13:32","slug":"shinku-la-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/shinku-la-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Shinku La tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Shinku La tunnel:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It will be constructed <strong>at an altitude of over 16,500 feet<\/strong> on the <strong>Nimu-Padam-Darcha road link<\/strong> on the <strong>border between Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>length<\/strong> of the tunnel will <strong>be 4.1 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Border Roads Organization (BRO)<\/strong> will construct the tunnel <strong>at a cost of Rs. 1,681.5 crores.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>traffic movement<\/strong> in the tunnel <strong>will not be vulnerable to long-range artillery shelling or missile firings<\/strong> either by China or Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>To provide <strong>all-weather connectivity to the border areas of Ladakh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>To enable <strong>swift movement of troops and heavy weaponry<\/strong> to forward areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Border Roads Organization (BRO)?<\/h3>\n<p>The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is a road construction executive force under the Ministry of Defense. BRO develops and maintains road networks in India&#8217;s border areas and friendly neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/4-km-tunnel-to-be-built-at-shinku-la-for-ladakh-all-weather-connectivity-3785600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>4 km Tunnel To Be Built At Shinku La For Ladakh All-Weather Connectivity<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shinku La tunnel will be constructed at an altitude of over 16,500 feet on the border between Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}