Char Dham Highway Project
- December 15, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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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.