Sela (Kameng / Tawang Barat): This is a miracle of engineering under an altitude of more than 13,000 feet in cold ice cold weather to increase the connectivity of all weather and disgusting military spread to Tawang and Kameng areas that are critical in all Chinese borders.
The road border organization (Bro) hastily worked to complete the project more than the RS 700 Crore Sela Tunnel, which consisted of two tunnels and road approaches, before the deadline for next August next year.
It was announced in the 2018-2019 budget, the longer the two bi-lane tunnels were 1,555 meters, while the others were 980 meters.
Longer tunnels have two tubes, the main and “runaway” for emergency use.
“We hope to finish the project in June next year.
The Sela Tunnel will then be the longest Bi-lane road tunnel in the world above a height of 13,000 feet,” said the Director of the Colonel Parikshit Mehra project, a M Tech of IIT Delhi who worked for five years in Construction of Atal Tunnels in Rohtang.
Balipara-Charduar-Tawang-Tawang (BCT) There is an existing winding through the interruption of a height of 13,800 feet on the way to Tawang.
“Pass Sela is seen by the Chinese from the actual control line.
What is military is not profitable for us.
The new tunnel will pass under the Sela Pass,” said a senior officer of 4 Army corps.
In addition, the BCT road is often blocked on the Sela Pass for military and civilian traffic for three months in winter due to heavy snowfall.
“It becomes a logistical nightmare and requires massive snow cleaning work,” said Col Mehra.
Built using the “latest Austrian tunneling method”, the tunnel between the Sela is far below the snow line, which will allow all weather trips without the challenge of cleaning of snow.
The tunnel overhead permission was also quite high to allow all military vehicles past it.
This will ensure heavy troops and weaponry such as artillery weapons can quickly rush to Tawang from the headquarters of 4 corps in the Assam plain to fulfill all Dont.
“The tunnel will cut the travel distance with just 6-km.
But it will ensure the connectivity of all the weather and cut the trip time one hour,” Col Mehra said.
Maintaining “breakthrough explosions” from the main tunnel tube to mark the end of its excavation through video conferencing last week, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said the tunnel between “will play an important role in increasing national security and ensuring economic social-development” region.
Sela Tunnel construction has developed on a quick clip, with excavation work in the second tunnel 980 meters has also crossed a 780 meter mark.
The Long Bunyian Col Mehra in the Atal Tunnel, which is the longest highway tunnel in the world with 10,000 feet, has helped a lot.
“There is a very bad geology there.
This experience has helped me take precautions to avoid deformation and collapse here,” he said.