{"id":95208,"date":"2026-06-09T22:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=95208"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:57:26","slug":"57-km-srinagar-sonamarg-road-to-be-four-laned-at-rs-1500-crore-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/57-km-srinagar-sonamarg-road-to-be-four-laned-at-rs-1500-crore-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"57-km Srinagar-Sonamarg road to be four-laned at Rs 1,500 crore: Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ganderbal, June 9 : Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday announced a Rs 1,500-crore project to upgrade the 57-km Srinagar-Sonamarg-Gumri stretch into a four-lane highway with paved shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters after the Zojila Tunnel breakthrough, Gadkari , said the Detailed Project Report (DPR) will be finalised by July, following which construction work will commence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said the upgrade is expected to significantly cut travel time on the route-from around two-and-a-half hours to about 45 minutes-and improve connectivity to Sonamarg and Ladakh.<\/p>\n<p>The project, he added, is part of the government\u2019s broader push to strengthen road infrastructure in Jammu and Kashmir and ensure all-weather connectivity to the strategically important Ladakh region\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ganderbal, June 9 : Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday announced a Rs 1,500-crore project to upgrade the 57-km Srinagar-Sonamarg-Gumri stretch into a four-lane highway with paved shoulders. Speaking to reporters after the Zojila Tunnel breakthrough, Gadkari , said the Detailed Project Report (DPR) will be finalised by July, following which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95210,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95208\/revisions\/95210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}