Supplied more than 9,000 tonnes of steel for Atal tunnel: SAIL

By OEM Update Editorial October 5, 2020 12:55 pm IST

State-owned Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) announced that it has supplied over 9,000 tonnes of steel for the construction of recently inaugurated Atal Rohtang Tunnel – the world’s longest road tunnel at an altitude of above 3,000 metres. SAIL has supplied more than 9,000 tonnes of its quality steel, out of the 15,000 tonnes of steel used in the entire project.

An all-weather tunnel, Atal Tunnel will connect Manali to Lahaul and Spiti Valley in Himachal Pradesh throughout the year. The 9,000 tonnes of steel supplied by SAIL consisted of around 6,500 tonnes of TMT, 1,500 tonnes of structurals and 1,000 tonnes of plates for fabricating beams and small quantity of SAIL GP/GC sheets for constructing stations and control rooms.