No light at the end of Banihal Qazigund 4-lane tunnel

After missing several deadlines, there is still no light at the end of Banihal-Qazigund 4-lane tunnel, though the company carrying out the work hopes the project will be completed by 2019. Presently the digging work is continuing on the tunnel on Jammu-Srinagar highway. Hyderabad-based company Navayuga said it is making every effort to ensure the tunnel is made ready for traffic by 2019. Being constructed with the help of the Austrian Tunneling Method (ATM), the work on 8.5 km tunnel between Banihal and Qazigund was started in 2011. The National…

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