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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, administrative officers, medical officers from the General Reserve Engineer Force (GREF) and officers from the Corps of Engineers Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Army Service Corps, Military Police and personnel of the Indian Army on Extra Regimental Employment. 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. It is currently headed by Lt General RM Mittal.〔(Lt General RM Mittal )〕 ==History== The BRO was formed on 7 May 1960 as the Border Roads Development Board with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as its chairman. BRO consists of BRDB and GREF and GREF is led by the Director General of Border Roads, who holds the rank of Lieutenant General. He is under Ministry of Defence as per his Uniform however as Organisational Chart He comes under Secretary BRDB a Civilian Officer to him he never reports. BRO consists of BRDB and GREF personals. BRDB is akin to any other government department headed presently by Rajya Raksha Mantri as chairman of the BRDB and Chief of Army and Air Force and E-in C are its members and there are other members as well. BRO being a part and parcel of MoD but it is placed under Ministry of Road Transport and Highways for budgetary allocation only as a matter of high policy otherwise MoD has administrative control over BRO but now it is placed absolutely under ministry of defence. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Border Roads Organisation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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