Srinagar: The strategic 434 km lengthy Srinagar-Leh freeway was thrown open for vehicular visitors on Thursday by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) in a document 68 days, a Defence PRO assertion stated. In the persevering with saga of performing past expectations, the Border Roads Organisation added one other feather in its already studded cap, by opening the mighty Zojila Pass on the Greater Himalayan Range on 16 Mar 2023. Zojila Pass is situated on the Srinagar-Kargil-Leh highway (NH-1) at a top of 11,650 toes and offers an important strategic hyperlink between Kashmir Valley and Ladakh area. This go used to usually shut by October/ November yearly and re-open solely by April/ May within the yesteryears with the full closure time averaging to nearly 5 to 6 months. Despite a spell of extreme winter which has witnessed the very best snowfall within the final 5 years, BRO rose to the problem and initiated varied measures to make sure early opening of the Zojila Pass.
Finding a transparent window of dry climate within the first week of Feb 2023, snow clearance groups have been pushed into fast motion by Project Beacon and Project Vijayak from Sonamarg and Dras ends of Zojila. After sustained and relentless efforts, preliminary connectivity throughout Zojila Pass was established on 11 Mar 2023.
The @BROindia, as we speak opened strategic Zojila Pass after simply 68 days of snow closure
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Trial convoys of autos have been efficiently handed by the Zojila on 16 Mar 2023, thereby guaranteeing that the Pass remained closed for under 68 days this yr as in comparison with 73 days final yr and 160-180 days within the yesteryears.
Talking to reporters after throwing the freeway open for visitors formally, Director General Border Roads Organisation (BRO) Lt General Rajeev Chaudhary stated, “it’s all the time the hardest problem to throw open Zojila go. “It was due to the hard work of BRO officials and men that we were able to throw the pass open in a record number of 68 days. For the past three years, we have been breaking our own records,” he stated.
“Our efforts will be making the road through in just 60 days (two months),” he stated. “BRO officials and men are fully acclimatized and familiar with the area. No equipment was damaged during the road opening process.”
He stated that the early opening of this highway helps save RS 7 Crore a day for the federal government. “This road helps to send defence equipment including guns, bullets and tanks besides troops to Ladakh. Similarly, the early road opening helps give an economic push to the Ladakh region remain cut-off from the rest of the world for six months,” the DG stated,
People of Ladakh can come to Srinagar by this highway and perform their financial actions and the individuals of Ladakh, Kargil, and Drass have appreciated the efforts of BRO to make the highway open in much less time.
