Guwahati. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will inaugurate 43 bridges across 7 border and union territories through video conferencing on Thursday. He will also lay the foundation stone for a very important tunnel in Arunachal Pradesh. This information was given by the defense spokesman.
Defense spokesman Lt Col Harsh Vardhan Pandey said that out of 43 bridges built by the Border Roads Organization, 10 are in Jammu and Kashmir, 8 in Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh, 7 in Ladakh, 4 in Punjab and Sikkim and 2 in Himachal Pradesh.
He further informed that the Defense Minister will also lay the foundation stone of Nechipu tunnel in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh. The tunnel will reduce travel time from state capital Itanagar to 448 km north-west and to Tawang, bordering China.
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