Banihal-Qazigund Tunnel Alongside J&Ok Freeway Most likely To Whole By way of March
Banihal-Qazigund tunnel may be finished by means of March.
Banihal (J-Ok):
The paintings at the double tube 8.5-km-long Banihal-Qazigund tunnel alongside the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar nationwide freeway is nearing of completion and is prone to open for site visitors in March.
The paintings at the Rs 2100-crore mission began in June 2011 by means of Navyuga engineering corporate and on of completion would scale back the street distance between Banihal in Jammu province and Qazigund in south Kashmir by means of 16 km, from the existing 35 km, and can bypass Jawahar Tunnel and Shaitan Nalla, which is liable to heavy snowstorm and slippery prerequisites right through winters.
“The paintings inside and out of doors is within the ultimate degree and we’re hopeful to throw it open for site visitors within the final week of March,” Leader Supervisor, Navayuga Engineering Corporate, Muneeb Tak informed PTI.
The present street tunnel underneath the Banihal move (Jawahar tunnel — the gateway to Kashmir) has been a bottleneck at the just about 265-km freeway, the one all climate street linking Kashmir with the remainder of the rustic, because of its elevation of two,194 m (7,198 feet) and restricted site visitors capability.
The brand new tunnel’s reasonable elevation at 1,790 m (5,870 feet) is 400 m not up to the present Jawahar tunnel”s elevation, which might make it much less liable to avalanches and fulfills the dream of parkway between Srinagar and Banihal.
Mr Tak mentioned the tunnel is a masterpiece of engineering and has been created from Austrian tunneling means (ATM).
“The tunnel has been constructed at the Construct Function and Switch Base Device with a cutting-edge exhaust machine to take away gasoline and usher in recent air.”
He mentioned 126 jet lovers, 234 CCTV fashionable cameras and a firefighting machine are being put in in each tubes of the tunnel for which the paintings is underway.
“A hall between two tubes after each 500 meters throughout the tunnel has been constructed and this can be utilized in case of any emergency in both tube,” Mr Tak mentioned.
