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| Udhampur-Nashri's 'Escape tunnel 'gets last blast by DIG DKR | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 2: With the last blast the adjoining Escape tunnel of the India's longest road tunnel connecting Chenani with Nashri the ongoing work has given a ray of hope that it will soon become a reality even before the scheduled time. DIG Doda Kishtwar Ramban (DKR) range Ashkoor Wani attended the occasion as special invitee who triggered the last blast which further added hopes that the project shall be completed much earlier to its dead line.
"Once this Escape tunnel is made functional, the ongoing work on Main tunnel will be multiplied with easy movement of more men and machinery by M/s Leighton Contractors (India) Pvt Ltd, contractor of the job work and executing agency, an official added. Officials of the project giving information said that more than 80 percent physical progress in work on 9 km long two- lane Main tunnel has been achieved while the parallel Escape tunnel had last blast and is being completed within days to come.
"The tunnel is part of proposed four-laning of Jammu-Srinagar National Highway and will act as an all-weather alternative to the existing NH-1A section connecting Chenani in Udhampur with Nashri in Ramban district, officials saidand added, "once completed the tube will reduce the existing road distance between the two points from 41 kms to 10.89 kms." Official said, "The main tunnel is being connected with a parallel Escape tunnel via 29 Cross Passages. Each Cross Passage is 34 meters long and at a distance of every 300 meters."
Giving statistical data, official said, "On the Escape tunnel, which has 3.7 m carriageway and eight meters height, almost hundred percent excavations and around 40 percent final lining works have been completed while 90 percent progress in work on Cross Passages has been achieved." |
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