[2] The tunnel facilitates round-the-year road connectivity between Srinagar and Jammu.

When the Pakistani raiders tried to take Kashmir valley in October 1947, the road from Jammu to Srinagar over the Banihal Pass was an indifferent track 300 km long not fit for induction of Indian troops into the Valley.

Photography or videography inside or nearby the tunnel is strictly prohibited.

In 2021, the Border Roads Organization decided to refurbish the strategically important tunnel and awarded a tender for INR 800 million but the contractor failed to do the work.

[5] Reduced, almost negligible, traffic through the Jawahar Tunnel had a very adverse effect on the local populace.

Hundreds of people, who were earning their livelihood from the shops and kiosks along both sides of Jawahar Tunnel became unemployed.

Such people from lower Munda Kashmir to Shaitani Nallah, Chakoor Nallah, Nowgam, Thethar and Chereel in Banihal have pinned all their hopes on the project to beautify Jawahar Tunnel and develop the tunnel and Banihal Pass itself as tourist attractions to generate means of livelihood.