PROJECT
BEACON - GOVERNANCE
News:
Border Roads Organisation
breaks record at ZojiLa battling extreme weather conditions
What's
in the news?
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The Border Roads Organisation’s Project
Beacon is enhancing the road to the
Amarnath cave shrine in Kashmir’s Lidder Valley.
Key
takeaways:
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The Amarnath cave is located at an
altitude of 13,000 feet.
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Pilgrims can reach the shrine through
either Pahalgam or Sonamarg, in the Lidder Valley.
Project
Beacon:
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Launched in the 1960s.
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Project Beacon is the Border Roads Organization - oldest initiative, overseeing the
development and maintenance of vital
road infrastructure in key Kashmir regions.
Go
back to basics:
Border
Road Organisation (BRO):
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The BRO was formed in 1960 to secure
India’s borders and develop infrastructure in remote areas of the north and
northeast states of the country.
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BRO was entirely brought under the Ministry of Defence in 2015.
Motto:
Shramena Sarvam Sadhyam (Everything is achievable through hard work).