As this stretch of highway passes through the Pir Panjal mountainous region and has sharp curves, it will have four tunnels, reducing the road length by 32 km and the travel time to 4.5 hours. The road-widening work on the remaining 200-km stretch from Akhnoor to Rajouri, and then onward to Poonch, is being undertaken by the BRO under Project Sampark. What about the Akhnoor to Poonch stretch? However, most of the work on this stretch is complete and the flyover also thrown open for vehicular traffic. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has set March 2025 as the target for the four-laning of the highway between Jammu and Akhnoor, including the construction of a 4.6-km flyover between Jammu city’s Canal Head to Muthi. ![]() While the four-laning of the highway from Jammu to Akhnoor is being executed by the National Highway and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL), the remaining work from Akhnoor to Poonch has been undertaken by the Border Roads Organisation under its Project Sampark.
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