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| rdfs:label | - Border Roads Organisation
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| rdfs:comment | - The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) maintains roads that serve the borders areas of India. It is staffed with a combination of Border Roads Engineering Service officers from the General Reserve Engineer Force (GREF) and officers from the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army civil engineers from College of Military Engineering Kirkee Pune. The organisation develops and maintains arterial roads on the borders of India. The BRO is also involved in the construction of a tunnel at the Rohtang pass. BRO's activities have also helped to accelerate the economic development of the North and North-Eastern border states of India. The road-construction teams have to deal with harsh climatic conditions. The BRO faces environments like the icy Himalayan mountaintops, the marshes of West Bengal, and the
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| leader name | - Lt General AT Parnaik, SM, VSM, from 30 Nov 2012.
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| Name | - Border Roads Organisation
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| Purpose | - Civil engineering infrastructural development in difficult area
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| region served | - India, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Myanmar, Libya, Sri Lanka.
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| abstract | - The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) maintains roads that serve the borders areas of India. It is staffed with a combination of Border Roads Engineering Service officers from the General Reserve Engineer Force (GREF) and officers from the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army civil engineers from College of Military Engineering Kirkee Pune. The organisation develops and maintains arterial roads on the borders of India. The BRO is also involved in the construction of a tunnel at the Rohtang pass. BRO's activities have also helped to accelerate the economic development of the North and North-Eastern border states of India. The road-construction teams have to deal with harsh climatic conditions. The BRO faces environments like the icy Himalayan mountaintops, the marshes of West Bengal, and the deserts in Rajasthan. The BRO builds and maintains roads at high altitude; Some of the BRO roads are built as high as above mean sea level. The Border Roads Organisation operates a network of over of roads and of permanent bridges. BRO has operations in twenty-two states, including the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory.
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