Roads Construction by BRO

The details of road construction projects entrusted to Border Roads Organisation (BRO) in various States are given below: ROADS ASSIGNED TO BRO FOR CONSTRUCTION IN VARIOUS STATES: State No. of roads Length in Km Jammu and Kashmir 171 6639 Himachal Pradesh 13 791 Uttarakhand 25 1199 Punjab 4 127 Rajasthan 31 1825 West Bengal 1 52 Sikkim 34 831 Arunachal Pradesh 105 6024 Assam 6 291 Nagaland 8 860 Manipur 18 1651 Mizoram 12 895 Tripura 3 201 Andaman & Nicobar Islands 1 25 Total: 432 21410 Say 21410 Funds allocated to BRO during last three years and current year are as under: Year 2012-13 : 4319.38 crores Year 2013-14 : 4178.36 crores Year 2014-15 : 4039.21 crores Current year : 4666.73 crores The details of achievement made by BRO during last three years and current year is given below:- Item Unit 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 (upto November 2015) Formation Km Equivalent Class-9 1668.77 1548.08 1316.34 711.58 Surfacing Km Equivalent Class-9 2420.46 2193.80 2072.48 1273.02 Resurfacing Km Class-9 1737.84 1968.47 2338.59 1533.11 Permanent works Rs. in Crores 958.86 1115.18 940.36 821.19 Major Bridges Metre 2461.94 2312.07 1612.51 913.54 Government has identified 73 roads for development along the International Border with China. Of these 73 Indo-China Border Roads (ICBRs), 61 roads of total length 3417.51 km have been entrusted to BRO. Out of 61 ICBRs with BRO, 21 roads of length 661.59 km have been completed. This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh in a written reply to Shri Jagdambika Pal and Shri DS Rathod in Lok Sabha today. DM/NAMPI/RAJ

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