{"id":32294,"date":"2025-04-17T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=32294"},"modified":"2025-05-28T11:32:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:02:55","slug":"silkyara-bend-barkot-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/silkyara-bend-barkot-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Silkyara Bend-Barkot Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Silkyara Bend-Barkot Tunnel Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Union Road Transport and Highways recently termed the breakthrough in the Silkyara bend-Barkot road tunnel a historic milestone, saying this transformative tunnel will save one hour of travel time.<\/p>\n<h2>About Silkyara Bend-Barkot Tunnel<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>4.531 km long, two-lane bi-directional tunnel<\/strong> with an <strong>escape passage,<\/strong> located on the <strong>Dharasu-Yamunotri section in Uttarakhand.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Barkot and Silkyara are the two ends of the tunnel.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Part of NH-134<\/strong> (formerly NH-94), the project is being <strong>constructed under the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) Mode.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Around ninety percent<\/strong> of the tunnel <strong>is being excavated in phyllite, <\/strong>which is <strong>very weak rock.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The New Austrian Tunnelling Method (NATM) <\/strong>is <strong>used for the construction<\/strong> of the tunnel.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>NATM is a method of modern tunnel design and construction employing sophisticated monitoring to optimize various wall reinforcement techniques based on the type of rock encountered as tunnelling.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Funded <\/strong>under the National Highway Original [NH(O)] Scheme of the<strong> Ministry of Road Transport &amp; Highways<\/strong>, it is a <strong>key component of<\/strong> the ambitious <strong>Chardham Plan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It promises to cut travel time by about an hour and improve accessibility, particularly during adverse weather conditions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yamunotri <\/strong>is just about <strong>50 km from this tunnel<\/strong>. It will <strong>provide easy access to devotees to Badrinath and Kedarnath.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/india\/uttarakhands-silkyara-tunnel-achieves-breakthrough-gadkari-calls-it-historic-milestone-9301904.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">N18<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silkyara Bend-Barkot Tunnel is a 4.531 km two-lane tunnel with an escape passage on the Dharasu-Yamunotri route in Uttarakhand, enhancing connectivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":32331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,161,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-32294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-silkyara-bend-barkot-tunnel","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32294","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}