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The Border Highway Organization, which develops and maintains a road network in the border areas of India, completed a key highway in Uttarakhand that will dramatically reduce travel time.
The path was opened by Defense Minister Rajnath Singh via video conference. He also pointed to a nine-vehicle caravan from Pithoragarh to Gunji to indicate that both passengers and cargo can be shipped on the new stretch of highway through mountainous terrain.
Here are the key things to know about the crucial path:
• The road has been built from Ghatibagar in Dharchula to Lipulekh, near the border with China. It is also known as the Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra Route. The path is 75 kilometers long.
• The trail ends at the 17,000-foot-high Lipulekh Pass. From there, Mount Kailash is located about 97 km north of the pass in Tibet. The Lipulekh Pass, near the triple India-China-Nepal junction, is the lowest point in this section of the Upper Himalayas.
• The difficult Himalayan terrain starting from the Mangti camp near Tawaghat to Gunji in the Vyans valley, and the Indian security posts located near the Indochina border, are now accessible by a concrete path.
• The Union’s Minister of Road Transport Nitin Gadkari had announced last year that this section will be completed in April 2020.
• Construction of this strategic stretch of highway began in 2008 and was scheduled to be completed in 2013, but was delayed due to difficult terrain between Nazang and the town of Bundi. The project was approved at a cost of Rs 80.76 crore. In 2018, the Cabinet Security Committee (CCS) approved a revised cost of Rs 439.40 million.
• Locals say it used to take them five days to reach their high-altitude villages from Dharchula and vice versa. Now it will take only four hours to get there. It will also help the migration of tribal people in winter and summer to the upper Himalaya region.
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