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- The Border Roads Organisation(BRO) has celebrated its 59th Raising Day on 7th May,2019.
- The BRO was formed on 7 May 1960 to secure India’s borders and develop infrastructure in remote areas of the north and north-east states of the country.It functions under the control of the Ministry of Defence since 2015.
- BRO executes road construction and maintenance works along the northern and western frontiers primarily to meet the strategic requirements of the army and is responsible for maintenance of over 53,000 km of roads.
- BRO is staffed by officers and troops drawn from the Indian Army’s Corps of Engineers,Electrical and Mechanical Engineers,Army Service Corps, Military Police and army personnel on extra regimental employment.
- Further,Engineering Service and personnel from the General Reserve Engineer Force (GREF) form the parent cadre of the Border Roads Organisation.
- The organisation maintains operations in twenty-one states and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.The BRO has also constructed roads in friendly foreign countries such as Bhutan, Myanmar and Afghanistan.



