Saturday, 03 October 2020 | PNS
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the world’s longest underground highway ‘Atal Tunnel Rohtang’ on Saturday October 3, 2020. Around 9 km long tunnel will connect Manali to Leh.
The Leh-Manali highway, one of the two routes to Ladakh, The Rohtang Pass receives heavy snowfall and blizzards during winter months and is open for road traffic for only four months in a year. The tunnel will keep the highway open during the winter. The other route to Leh is through the Zoli La on the Srinagar-Drass-Kargil-Leh highway, which also gets blocked by snow for nearly four months in a year.
