Backpacking India On Road

Ranaghat flyover on NH12 (erstwhile, NH34) is officially open for vehicular traffic movement wef mid March 2024.  Even as on 2024-04-13, both way traffic are being directed through single flanks of the flyover. Vehicular traffic are expected to move seamlessly on both lanes within end April 2024.  The videos were filmed on 2024-04-13 and sent to me for the benefit of Indian Roadie members/ followers by my brothers-in-law who are the owners of Manorama Hospitex, a 400+ bed super speciality hospital (and also an Indian Roadie Preferred Hospital) in Ranaghat, Nadia district, West Bengal.  For the uninitiated who can't drive without the dumb online navigation maps, the hospital is on the left flank of NH12 as one drives down from Kolkata/ Barasat/ Chakdaha towards Krishnanagar/ Baharampore/ Farakka/ Malda.  Roadies will no more be held up in inordinately long jams at the railway level crossing in Ranaghat which is just about 150 mtrs on the right (from where the video wa...

The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) connected the strategic Nimmu-Padam-Darcha road in Ladakh on Monday 2024-03-25. This 298-km road will connect Manali to Leh through Darcha and Nimmu on Kargil – Leh Highway. The road is now the third axis apart from Manali-Leh and Srinagar-Leh, which connects Ladakh to the hinterland. The Nimmu-Padam-Darcha road derives its strategic importance from the fact that it is not only shorter vis-a-vis the other two axes, but crosses only one pass; Shinkun La (16,558 feet) on which tunnel work is about to commence by the BRO.  .  .  .  * Indian Roadie Infrastructure Projects  * Ladakh Trails