The Leh-Manali road is likely to be reopened in the second week of April, Border Roads Organization (BRO) said on Saturday.
An official of BRO said that a snow clearance team iscurrently working on Leh-Manali road.
Under Project Himank, men and heavy machinery have been putinto service to clear snow and make the 400 km road motorable for traffic insummer, he said.
The official said that around 20 feet snow has accumulatedalong the high altitude. The road had passes as high as 14000 feet.
Heavy snowfall in the mountainous region in winter closesdown the highways cutting off the Leh from rest of the world.
Chief Engineer Project Himank Brigadier Nitin K Sharma saidthat the members of BRO with machinery are working with strenuous efforts toreopen the road.
“Despite sub-zero temperature and high altitude, our men areon the job to reopen the vital road. The weather has played spoil sport in thesnow clearance. Every now and then fresh snowfall brings the snow clearanceoperation back to square one. Despite all that the road will likely be thrownopen in the second week of April,” the Chief Engineer said.