Sasoma–Saser La Road
Border road in Ladakh near the Line of Actual Control / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sasoma–Sasser La-Saser Brangsa-Gapsam-Daulat Beg Oldi Road (SSSG-DBO Road) 131 km long road through 17,800 feet (5,400 m) high Saser La, and its 18-km-long northwest-to-southeast fork the Sasser Brangsa-Murgo Road (SBM Road), are 30-ft-wide black-topped heavy-military-vehicle-grade motorable road between Nubra Valley and Depsang Plains (DBO-Daulat Beg Oldi) in Ladakh in India. The sections of SSSG-DBO Road are the 47 km long "Sasoma (near Siachen Base Camp)- Saser La section", 27 km long "Saser La-Saser Brangsa section", 42 km long "Saser Brangsa-Gapsam section" along the upstream of Shyok River which goes northeast of Saser Brangsa, and 10 km long "Gapsam-DBO section". Just after the Saser Brangsa, after crossing the 345 m long bridge over the Shyok River, the SSSG-DBO Road forks into two: 18 km long "Saser Brangsa-Murgo Road" (SBM Road) along the downstream of Shyok River which goes southeast of Saser Brangsa, and 52 km long Saser Brangsa-Gapsam-DBO route (SSSG-DBO Road) along the upstream of Shyok River which goes northeast of Saser Brangsa. These forks connect to the Darbuk–Shyok–DBO Road (DS-DBO Road) at two places: at Daulat Beg Oldi in northeast and at Murgo in southeast.[1][2][3][4] This strategically important road provides a much shorter alternative access from Nubra Valley to DBO as compared to the longer 230 km route via "DS-DBO Road",[3][5] reducing the travel time between Nubra valley and DBO from 2 days to mere 6 hours.[6] In September 2023, several sections of the road are already complete, the whole blacktopped route will be completed by October 2024.[1] To provide the all-weather connectivity, the DPR (detailed project report) for 7 km long Saser La tunnel under the Saser La till Saser Brangsa was being prepared in June 2023,[2] the tunnel construction will commence in 2025 and will be completed by 2028.[1]