With China dispute in sight India builds all-weather border road

Bloomberg

India will begin work on its first all-weather highway to carry troops and hardware to its disputed Himalayan boundary with China and add 9,000 additional soldiers to bolster defenses at its border as tensions linger.
The cabinet cleared the project to build a 4.1 kilometre (2.55 miles)-long tunnel through the mountains in the border state of Himachal Pradesh. Once completed, the tunnel will make the road that connects the tensest areas of the border with China with the rest of India usable throughout the year.
“This will make Ladakh accessible to the whole country throughout the year,” Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur told reporters at a briefing, adding that the 283 kilometres long highway cutting through the mountains “will be the shortest route.”