Defence News
BRO facing multiple hassles in road construction along India’s border
There is an urgent need of road construction along India’s borders, and the Centre is fully aware of it.
As per the operational requirement of Indian Army, 530 roads of length 22,803 km are identified for construction/improvement by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO).
During the last three years, formation cutting of 3702 km equivalent Class-9, surfacing of 6296 km equivalent Class-9, permanent works worth Rs 3558 crores and major bridges of 6088 m length have been carried out.
The government has taken many measures to improve the pace of execution of road infrastructure projects in the border areas.
States of Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, J&K, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have constituted the Empowered Committee to resolve the issues pertaining to land acquisition and forest clearances.
Outsourcing has been allowed to augment the capacity of BRO. Enhanced financial and administrative powers have been given to the executives of BRO.
73 roads are identified as strategic Indo-China border roads (ICBR), out of which 61 ICBRs have been entrusted to Border Roads Organization (BRO) with a length of 3417.50 km which were planned to be completed by 2012.
There are delays in execution of some of the 61 ICBRs entrusted to BRO due to several reasons like: Delay in forest/wildlife clearance. hard rock stretches, limited working season, difficulties in availability of construction material, delay in land acquisition, damage caused due to natural disasters.
