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Nation Infrastructure

STRENGTHENING

INFRASTRUCTURE

IN BORDER AREAS

Timely completion of infrastructure projects in the border and remote areas of the country
has now become the habit of the new India. Border Roads Organization (BRO) through its
infrastructure projects is not only securing the borders but also playing an important role
in the socio-economic development of remote areas. On September 12, Defence Minister
Rajnath Singh dedicated to the nation 90 BRO infrastructure projects costing more than Rs
2,900 crore in 11 states and union territories….

aking the unprecedented task of the nation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi
developing infrastructure in border areas appreciated the projects constructed by BRO.
Tand boosting road-to-sky connectivity, PM Modi said that these are important projects
BRO inaugurated 90 infrastructure related which will help in enhancing the infrastructure
projects from Jammu which will prove to be a in the border areas.
milestone. These include Nechiphu Tunnel in Of these projects, 36 are in Arunachal
Arunachal Pradesh; two airfields in West Bengal; Pradesh, 26 in Ladakh, 11 in Jammu and
two helipads; 22 roads and 63 bridges. With the Kashmir, 5 in Mizoram, three in Himachal
inauguration of 90 projects worth Rs 2,900 crore, Pradesh, two each in Sikkim, Uttarakhand and
a record 295 infrastructure projects of BRO with West Bengal and one project each in Nagaland,
a total cost of about Rs 8,000 crore have been Rajasthan and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
dedicated to the nation since 2021. In 2022, The BRO has completed the construction of
103 projects costing about Rs 2,900 crore were these strategically-important projects in record
inaugurated while in 2021, 102 projects costing time; most of them in a single working season
more than Rs 2,200 crore were dedicated to using state-of-the-art technology. n

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