Border Road Organization on Saturday conducted the final blast concluding all excavation works on the Sela Tunnel Project in Arunachal Pradesh.
What is the Sela Tunnel project and what is its significance? Read this to learn more.
Sela Tunnel Project
The Sela Tunnel Project is located in the West Kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh. Once completed, it will provide all weather connectivity to Tawang.
The foundation stone of the Sela Tunnel Project was laid by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in 2019.
The project comprises Tunnel 1, which is a 980 m long single tube tunnel, and Tunnel 2, which is a 1555 m long twin tube tunnel. Tunnel 2 has one bi-lane tube for traffic and one escape tube for emergencies.
It will also be one of the longest tunnels to have been constructed above an altitude of 13,000 feet.
The project also includes the construction of an approach road of seven kilometers to Tunnel 1, which takes off from BCT Road, and a link road of 1.3 kilometers, which connects Tunnel 1 to Tunnel 2.
On January 15, 2021, after the first blast was conducted by the DGBR, excavation work on Tunnel 1 commenced.
Thereafter, on October 14, 2021, defense minister Shri Rajnath Singh carried out the breakthrough blast of the 1,555-meter Tunnel 2, through an e-ceremony from India Gate, marking the end of excavation on Tunnel 2.