Srinagar, July 2 -- By Er Navaid Runyal

Srinagar- Dawn once brought uncertainty to drivers approaching Panthyal on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.

Truckers slowed beneath towering cliffs, watching rain-soaked slopes for falling rocks, while pilgrims, tourists and local families waited for hours as landslides and shooting stones blocked the road.

A journey expected to take minutes often consumed an entire day.

But now, vehicles pass beneath those same cliffs in about five minutes through the newly opened Digdol-Panthyal Twin Tube Tunnels, which bypass one of NH-44's most hazardous stretches.

Built at a cost of Rs.866.37 crore by Ceigall India Private Limited and Patel Engineering for the National Highways Authority of India, the ...