Zojila to be made like Davos: Gadkari
NEW DELHI, July 9: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today said he wants to make Auli, a hill station situated in Uttarakhand, an attraction for tourists across the world.
Addressing a virtual event, Gadkari also said he is planning to develop a landscape between the 18-km-stretch of Zojila tunnel in Ladakh and Z-Morh tunnel in Jammu & Kashmir like world-famous Davos in Switzerland.
“We want to develop Auli in Uttrakhand near Badrinath and Kedarnath as an attraction for tourists across the world,” he said.
The small-yet-picture-perfect town of Auli is India’s premier ski resort destination.
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The strategic Srinagar-Kargil-Leh National Highway remains closed for around two months every winter. The Zojila pass, on the highway, is situated at an altitude of 11,578 ft.
The pass remains closed during winters due to heavy snowfall cutting off Ladakh region from Kashmir. Construction work on the Zojila tunnel began in October 2020.
Projected as Asia’s longest tunnel, it will provide avalanche-free travel on the Srinagar-Leh section of NH1. It will reduce the travel time from around 3 hours to 15 minutes.
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Hill station more enchanting than Davos being planned near Zojila: Gadkari
NEW DELHI: A hill station, more enchanting than the world-famous Davos in Switzerland, is being planned in the picturesque landscape between the 18-km stretch of Zojila tunnel in Ladakh and Z-Morh tunnel in Jammu & Kashmir, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said. A meeting with Lieutenant Governors of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir is scheduled next week in this connection.
“We are planning to make a hill city, more attractive than Davos on the picturesque high-altitude 18 km terrain between Zojila tunnel and Z-Morh tunnel…The world-class project will change the dynamics of both Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir territories and create huge employment,” Road Transport, Highways and MSME Minister Gadkari said.
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