At a ceremony scheduled for Tuesday at Devak Bridge in Jammu, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will officially open and dedicate 90 infrastructure projects to the nation that Border Road Organisation (BRO) built at a cost of Rs 2941 crore. The projects have been built in ten border States and UTs of the Northern and North-Eastern regions, according to an official statement.
Rajnah Singh will formally open 22 roads, 63 bridges, the Nechiphu Tunnel in Arunachal Pradesh, two airfields in West Bengal, and two helipads at a ceremony hosted by the Border Roads Organization at Devak Bridge in Jammu and Kashmir. With the aid of cutting-edge technology, the BRO built many of these crucial strategic projects in a single working season, finishing them in a record amount of time.
11 of these projects have been completed, 26 in Ladakh, 36 in Arunachal Pradesh, 5 in Mizoram, 3 in Himachal Pradesh, 2 in Sikkim, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal, and 1 each in Nagaland, Rajasthan, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
In, 2021, 102 BRO infrastructure projects were dedicated to the Nation at a cost of Rs 2229 cr.
The Defence Minister will also participate in the North Tech Symposium being organised by Northern Command jointly with IIT Jammu.
A senior official from BRO said another important infrastructure to be inaugurated will be the 500 m long Nechiphu Tunnel on Balipara-Charduar-Tawang Road in Arunachal Pradesh.
This tunnel, along with the currently under construction Sela Tunnel, will offer year-round accessibility to the important Tawang region. Both the armed forces stationed there and visitors to the pristine Tawang will benefit from this. Bagdogra and Barrackpore Airfields in West Bengal will also be reopened and renovated on Tuesday.
These airfields have been successfully reconstructed by BRO at a cost of Rs 529 cr.
These airfields will not only improve the defensive and offensive architecture of the Indian Airforce along Northern Borders but will also facilitate commercial flight operations in the region.
The union minister will also carry out e-Shilanyash of Nyoma Airfield in Ladakh.
A Rs 218 crore airfield in Eastern Ladakh will be built for a variety of strategic air assets.
