Pune, Dec 25 Three months after work on the ambitious Zojila Tunnel started, a Pune NGO has urged that it should be named after Emperor Lalitaditya, the great eighth Century conqueror and ruler of the Ladakh region.
In letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, the NGO Sarhad has said the naming of the upcoming tunnel after Emperor Lalitaditya would be a fitting tribute, as it was he who had defeated the Tibetan forces and paved the way for annexing the Ladakh region with the then Kashmir kingdom.
Approved by the UPA government in 2013, Modi laid the foundation stone in May 2018, while in October 2020, Gadkari initiated the 'first blast' for the proposed all-weather tunnel, which will be 14.20 kms long, four-lane single-tube tunnel, linking Baltal with Minamarg.
It is considered to be among the most important projects like the Atal Tunnel
( With inputs from IANS )
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