Army rectifies cable snag at Khardungla

Tribune News Service

Jammu, January 28

Braving subzero temperatures and accumulated snow of several metres, Army jawans rectified a technical snag in an optical fibre cable at the extreme height of 18,000 feet at the Khardungla in Ladakh on Monday.

The pictures uploaded by the Army’s Northern Command with soldiers rectifying the snag of fibre cable in the middle of accumulated snow at the Khardungla have gone viral in social media and were widely appreciated by the netizens.

The photographs have been uploaded with the message “No terrain, no weather, no enemy can stop us! We are #IndianArmy!”

“#NorthernComd Signallers braving subzero temperatures, snow covered mountains, extreme heights at #Khardungla Pass(18000 ft) maintain Optical Fibre Cable Link just to keep #Ladakh connected,” the Army said on its official Twitter handle.

The connectivity has remained a major issue in the arid region of Ladakh where there are more than 350 uncovered areas having no telecom connectivity.

Recently, the lone member of Parliament from the region, Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, had urged the Union government to sanction sufficient mobile towers for all 350 uncovered areas to ensure better connectivity in the Union Territory of Ladakh.