PM Modi to launch construction of ‘world’s highest tunnel’ today

The project to construct the 4.1 km long twin-tube tunnel at an altitude of 15,800-feet, under the forbidding Shinkun Pass (La means pass) on the Nimmu-Padam-Darcha road by the Border Roads Organization (BRO) at a cost of Rs 1,681 crore, was approved by the PM-led cabinet committee on security in February last year.