<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will inaugurate 28 different Border Roads Organisation, BRO, infrastructure projects worth over 700 crore rupees on Tuesday. Out of 28 projects, four are in Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Eight in Ladakh, Two in Rajasthan and Three each in Punjab and Uttarakhand. With these new projects, the BRO will be completing 103 infrastructure projects during this year.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Among the new projects, five bridges of various spans are on the strategic Durbuk -Shyok -Daulat Beg Oldie Road and 240 feet Jhula Suspension Bridge on Ramban Old Alignment and a telemedicine node in the remotest location close to DBO in Ladakh.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">At an altitude of 14000 feet, bridges constructed in Ladakh are strategically important on D-S-DBO Road. They will facilitate speedy induction of troops, heavy equipment and mechanised vehicles to forward areas of Ladakh up to Karakoram Ranges including the important Galwan valley.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Similarly, a 240 ft Jhula Bailey Suspension Bridge on Ramban Old Alignment Road will also be opened to vehicular traffic in just 31 days, two months ahead of its scheduled date of completion. This bridge would benefit more than fifteen thousand people between Maitra and Bowli Bazaar area and shorten the route nearly 12 Kilometers.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Defence Minister will also inaugurate a tele medicine node to connect the remote detachments through VSAT to Service hospitals. It will provide prompt medical intervention for medical and surgical emergencies through Tele medicine consultation with specialists at Service hospitals.</span></p>
News On AIR | December 24, 2022 7:06 PM
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to inaugurate 28 different BRO infrastructure projects on Tuesday