Summary:
The road will help connect landlocked Zanskar and Kargil with Himachal with the shortest possible distance.Under project Deepak of Border Roads Organization (BRO), 38 BRTF has already connected Shingo-la with Manali-Leh highway at Darcha village at Lahaul. MANALI: Himachal-based 38 Border Road Task Force (BRTF) will intrude 10km into Jammu and Kashmir after crossing 16,500ft high Shingo-la pass to connect Kargiak, the remotest village of Zanskar in Ladakh in valley. This will speed up the project.While majority of the Ladakh area is close to China and Pakistan, Zanskar is the safest part there which shares boundary with Himachal. Zanskar is two-day drive away from Srinagar and three-day drive away from Manali via Kargil. Therefore, project Deepak is given additional job of working in Jammu and Kashmir to build 10km road till its remotest village which is reachable from Srinagar in four to five days..