The excavation work for the Mehar tunnel along the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway has been suspended due to the development of “pressure and bulges” on its sidewalls, officials said on Monday. The construction of the 780-metre C-type tunnel started over one-and-a-half years ago to bypass the slide-prone Mehar-Cafeteria stretch in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district. The excavation work on the Cafeteria Morh side of the tunnel was suspended in June this year after its mouth was damaged by a massive landsli
