Char Dham Highway Project

Subject – Economy

Context – Supreme Court approves widening of three Char Dham highways

Concept –

It aims to connect four Hindu holy towns of Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath, and Badrinath in Uttarakhand and is a 900-KMS long project.
It will widen almost 900 km of highways connecting the pilgrimage sites and the Tanakpur-Pithoragarh stretch of National Highway (NH) 125, a part of the Kailash MansarovarYatra route.
The project is also deemed strategically important in the backdrop of the recent India-China military standoff at LAC.
Implementing Agencies: Uttarakhand State Public Works Department (PWD), Border Roads Organisation (BRO) and the National Highway & Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL).
- NHIDCL is a fully owned company of the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways.

To know about Char Dham Yatra, please refer September 2021 DPN.