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The historic decision to construct a strategic tunnel below the Rohtang Pass was taken on June 3, 2000 when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated Atal Tunnel in Rohtang, which is the highest altitude tunnel in the world and has strategic significance. The historic decision to construct a strategic tunnel below the Rohtang Pass was taken on June 3, 2000 when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister.

The Union Cabinet chose in 2019 to name the Rohtang Tunnel as Atal Tunnel to respect the commitment made by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Rohtang in Persian methods a heap of dead bodies.

Atal Tunnel: A couple of realities about this designing wonder

1) The attainability concentration for the Atal Tunnel was first done in 1990. The establishment stone for the frontage road toward the south gateway of the passage was laid on May 6, 2002. The primary impact occurred in 2010 and the last impact in 2017. The passage was developed utilizing a drill and impact NATM (New Austria Tunneling Method) procedures.

2) The 9.02 km long passage interfaces Manali to Lahaul-Spiti valley consistently. Prior to the street stayed affected for around a half year consistently attributable to snowfall. The passage is worked with super present-day particulars in the Pir Panjal scope of Himalayas at a height of 3000 meters (10,000 feet) from the Mean Sea Level (MSL).

3) It decreases the street separation by 46 km among Manali and Leh and the time by around four to five hours. The difficult work put in by Border Roads Organization over the most recent 10 years is arriving at the last stage.

4) The South Portal (SP) of Atal Tunnel has situated a ways off of 25 km from Manali at a height of 3,060 meters, while the North Portal (NP) of the passage is situated close to town Teling, Sissu, in Lahaul Valley at an elevation of 3,071 Meters.

5) It is a horseshoe-formed, single-cylinder twofold path burrow with a street of 8 meters. It has an overhead leeway of 5.525 meters. Additionally, it is 10.5-meter wide and has a 3.6 x 2.25 meters flame-resistant crisis departure burrow incorporated with the primary passage itself. There are 18 departure burrows where after every 500 meters there is an opening in the event of a crisis. On the off chance that any fire episode happens so the first thing is the means by which individuals caught are to be safeguarded. For that, there is a section at every 500 meters.

6) Atal Tunnel has been intended for traffic thickness of 3000 vehicles for each day and 1,500 trucks for every day with a max speed of 80 km/hr. It has the cutting edge electromechanical framework including semi cross over ventilation framework.

7) The passage has plentiful security highlights incorporated with it including phone associations at every 150 meters for crisis correspondence, fire hydrant components at every 60 Meters, auto episode discovery framework with CCTV cameras at every 250 meters, air quality checking at each one Km, departure lighting/leave signs and broadcasting framework all through the passage among others.

8) Officials said the Border Roads Organization (BRO) worked tirelessly to conquer major geographical, landscape, and climate challenges that incorporated the most troublesome stretch of the 587-meter Seri Nalah Fault Zone. The forward leap from the two closures was accomplished on October 15, 2017.