National Highway 13 (NH 13), part of the larger
Trans-Arunachal Highway
The Trans-Arunachal Highway (TAH), which includes an existing route comprising NH-13 () and parts of NH-15 (), NH-215 () and SH-25, is an under-construction 2-lane more than long highway passing through 16 districts in Arunachal Pradesh st ...
network, is a 1,559 km long
two-lane national highway across
Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in northeast India. It was formed from the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and India declared it as a state on 20 February 1987. Itanagar is its capital and la ...
in India running from
Tawang
Tawang is a town and administrative headquarter of Tawang district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It lies on NH-13 section of Trans-Arunachal Highway. The town was once the headquarter of the Tawang Tract, which is now divided into ...
in northwest to
Wakro in southeast.
[Road network fundingMODNER]
/ref> Entire route became operational in 2018 when 6.2 km long Dibang River Bridge
The Dibang River Bridge is a beam bridge across Dibang River which connects Bomjir and Malek villages and provides all-weather connectivity between Dambuk and Roing in eastern part of Arunachal Pradesh, India. At 6.2 km long, it is the List o ...
was completed across Dibang River
Dibang River, also known as Talo in Idu, is an upstream tributary river of the Brahmaputra in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It originates and flows through the Mishmi Hills in the (Upper) Dibang Valley and Lower Dibang Valley dist ...
.[Largest and longest bridges in India]
ww.tentaran.com Tentaran Sela Tunnel
Sela Tunnel is a road tunnel at which ensures all-weather connectivity between Guwahati in Assam and Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh. This tunnel is the longest bi-lane tunnel in the world at 13,000 feet. Situated 400 metres below the Sela Pass, t ...
, a shorter alternative route with target completion by Jan/Feb 2022, will provide all-weather connectivity.[Sela pass tunnel]
Economic Times, 1 Feb 2018.[Sela tunnel construction to start soon]
Business Standard, 21 Nov 2018. Before the renumbering of highways, it was known as NH 229 and NH52.Indian military
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's capabilities in combating the threat of China's Western Theater Command
The Western Theater Command () is one of the five theater commands of the People's Liberation Army, founded on 1 February 2016.
Its jurisdiction includes Sichuan, Tibet, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Chongqing. Guizhou ...
opposite India's eastern sector of Line of Actual Control
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.
Route
NH13 links Tawang
Tawang is a town and administrative headquarter of Tawang district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It lies on NH-13 section of Trans-Arunachal Highway. The town was once the headquarter of the Tawang Tract, which is now divided into ...
, Bomdila
Bomdila is the headquarters of West Kameng district in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. Bomdila is one of the 60 constituencies of the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Geography and climate
Bomdila is located at . It has an average elevat ...
, Nechipu, Seppa, Sagalie, Ziro
Ziro is a town in and the district headquarters of the Lower Subansiri district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It is included the Tentative List for UNESCO's World Heritage Site for the '' Apatani cultural landscape''. The part of t ...
, Daporijo
Daporijo is a census town in the Upper Subansiri district in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Demographics
As of the 2001 India census, Daporijo had a population of 15,468. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 4 ...
, Along, Pasighat
Pasighat is the headquarters of East Siang district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. Situated at the eastern foothills of the Himalayas at above mean sea level, Pasighat is Arunachal's oldest town. The Government of India included Pas ...
, Tezu
Tezu is a census town and the headquarters of Lohit district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It is the fifth largest town in Arunachal Pradesh and one of its most developed.
Tezu is one of the 60 constituencies of Legislative Assembl ...
and terminates at its junction with NH-15 near Wakro in the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Junctions
: near Joram
: near Hoj
: near Pasighat
: near Pasighat
: near Meka
: near Meka
: near Hawacamp
: Terminal near Wakro.
See also
* Arunachal Frontier Highway
Arunachal Frontier Highway, officially notified as the National Highway-913 and also called Bomdila-Vijaynagar Highway, connecting Bomdila in northwest to VijaynagarQ in southeast including 800 km greenfield section and network of new tunnels & ...
, proposed along Indo-China border across upper Arunachal Pradesh
* Arunachal East-West Corridor, proposed across foothills of lower upper Arunachal Pradesh
* List of national highways in India
On 28 April 2010, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways officially published a new numbering system for the National Highway network in the Gazette of the Government of India. It is a systematic numbering scheme based on the orientatio ...
* National Highways Development Project
The National Highways Development Project (NHDP) was a project of four laning of existing national highways and six laning of selected major national highways of India. The project was started in 1998 under the leadership of Prime Minister of I ...
References
External links
NH 13 on OpenStreetMap
retrieved 19 September 2021.
National highways of India
National highways in Arunachal Pradesh
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