{"id":22909,"date":"2025-08-10T19:11:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=22909"},"modified":"2025-08-10T19:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:11:48","slug":"rs-10-billion-expressway-officially-inaugurated-in-gilgit-baltistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=22909","title":{"rendered":"Rs. 10 Billion Expressway Officially Inaugurated in Gilgit-Baltistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Gilgit-Baltistan-Expressway.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Minister Haji Gulbar Khan on Tuesday officially inaugurated the Tangir-Darel Expressway, a major infrastructure project valued at Rs. 10 billion and funded under the federal Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 82-kilometer-long road aims to connect the remote and flood-prone valleys of Tangir and Darel in the Diamer district and is expected to be completed by November 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the ceremony in Tangir Valley, the chief minister called the expressway a \u201chistoric breakthrough\u201d for the region. \u201cFor decades, Tangir and Darel have suffered due to inaccessibility. This project marks the beginning of a new era of development,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official documents, the expressway includes two segments\u2014Tangir and Darel Expressways\u2014with Rs. 6.03 billion allocated to these sections and Rs. 5.09 billion earmarked solely for construction. Although the project\u2019s formal timeline begins in August 2025, construction is already underway, with over 23 percent completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The expressway\u2019s launch comes amid deteriorating regional road conditions caused by landslides, cloudbursts, and glacial flooding. Major routes like Babusar Pass and the Karakoram Highway have seen closures in recent weeks, making this new expressway a crucial alternate route for emergency access and trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional development initiatives were also announced, including new expressways, water supply schemes worth Rs5 billion, a Rs350 million RCC bridge, and healthcare and agriculture projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/2025\/08\/06\/rs-10-billion-expressway-officially-inaugurated-in-gilgit-baltistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/2025\/08\/06\/rs-10-billion-expressway-officially-inaugurated-in-gilgit-baltistan\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Minister Haji Gulbar Khan on Tuesday officially inaugurated the Tangir-Darel Expressway, a major infrastructure project valued at Rs. 10 billion and funded under the federal Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP). The 82-kilometer-long road aims to connect the remote and flood-prone valleys of Tangir and Darel in the Diamer district and is expected to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1224,132,21871,105,3971,36,22526,22527,4033],"class_list":["post-22909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-developments-2","tag-economy","tag-expressway","tag-geopolitics-2","tag-gilgit-biltistan","tag-pakistan","tag-road-infrastructure","tag-rs-10-billion-expressway-officially-inaugurated-in-gilgit-baltistan","tag-transportation-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22911,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22909\/revisions\/22911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}