Chardham project

🔺It is a project involves developing and widening 900-km of national highways connecting the holy Hindu pilgrimage sites of; Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri, and Yamunotri

🔺The highway will be called Char Dham Mahamarg(Char Dham Highway) and the highway construction project will be called as Char Dham Mahamarg Vikas Pariyojana(Char Dham Highway Development Project).

🔺The roads will be widened from 12m to 24m and the project will involve construction of tunnels, bypasses, bridges, subways and viaducts.

These projects are being implemented by three executing agencies of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways:

1. Uttarakhand State PWD

2. Border Road Organization (BRO)

3. National Highway & Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited

(NHIDCL)