BRO connects strategic Nimmu-Padam-Darcha road in Ladakh
The Border Road Organization is a road construction and maintenance force in India that provides support to the Indian Armed Forces. It is responsible for the development of road networks in India’s border and friendly neighboring countries.
Border Roads Organisation (BRO) connected the strategic Nimmu-Padam-Darcha road in Ladakh on March 25, 2024. This 298-km road will connect Manali to Leh through Darcha and Nimmu on the Kargil – Leh Highway. The road is now the third axis apart from Manali-Leh and Srinagar-Leh which connects Ladakh to the hinterland.
The Border Road Organization is a road construction and maintenance force in India that provides support to the Indian Armed Forces. It is responsible for the development of road networks in India’s border and friendly neighboring countries.
Read Also : Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari, CAS presented Presidential Awards to 51 IAF personnelThe Nimmu-Padam-Darcha road derives its strategic importance from the fact that it is not only shorter vis-a-vis the other two axes, but crosses only one pass; Shinkun La (16,558 feet) on which tunnel work is about to commence by the BRO. This will result in the road having all-weather connectivity to the Ladakh region. The connectivity will strengthen the defense preparedness and provide a boost to the economic development in the Zanskar Valley.
DG Border Roads Lt Gen Raghu Srinivasan said that in January, when the River Zansakar was frozen, the equipment and personnel were mobilized and the work of establishing the connectivity was completed. He exuded confidence that the work on blacktopping the road will start soon. With the construction of the Shinkun La tunnel commencing, the third all-weather axis to Ladakh will be established, he added.
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