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TopicZojila tunnel

Topic: Zojila tunnel

Expected next year: 3 strategic tunnels in J&K to boost security & connectivity, cut travel time

Moushumi Das Gupta -
Khellani, KM 83 & Z-Morh tunnels will help in ensuring J&K's round-the-year connectivity with rest of India. Currently, NHIDCL is undertaking six projects worth Rs 18,539 crore.

Work begins on Srinagar-Leh Zojila tunnel 15 years after project was first conceived

Moushumi Das Gupta -
Highways minister Nitin Gadkari initiated virtual ‘ceremonial blast’ of the tunnel Thursday. Once complete, it will provide year-round connectivity between Srinagar and Leh.

After 6 years & 5 failed bids, the Srinagar-Leh Zojila tunnel remains on drawing board

Moushumi Das Gupta -
The sixth and latest bidding process for the 14.3-km Zojila tunnel was annulled on 7 August by Modi govt over ‘administrative reasons’. 

Debt-ridden IL&FS terminates contract to build India’s longest tunnel in J&K

Ifrah Mufti -
PM Modi had laid the foundation stone for the Zojila tunnel on the Srinagar-Leh Highway in June 2018, but the project has been stalled since November.

Crisis in IL&FS threatens to derail India’s longest tunnel project in Jammu & Kashmir

Ifrah Mufti -
Work has come to standstill on the Zojila tunnel due to IL&FS’s troubles, which has also hit the Z-Morh tunnel in the region.

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Economy

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Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

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National Interest

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Shekhar Gupta -
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