{"id":158614,"date":"2022-01-05T20:32:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=158614"},"modified":"2022-01-05T20:32:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:02:07","slug":"project-beacon-and-project-vijayak-border-roads-organisation-breaks-record-at-zojila-battling-extreme-weather-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/project-beacon-and-project-vijayak-border-roads-organisation-breaks-record-at-zojila-battling-extreme-weather-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Beacon and Project Vijayak: Border Roads Organisation breaks record at ZojiLa battling extreme weather conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Border Roads Organisation(BRO) <\/span>through its frontline projects \u2013 Vijayak and Beacon <\/span>has <\/span>created a new record by keeping the Zoji La pass on the Srinagar\u2013Leh National Highway open for vehicular traffic (Usually, it remains closed in winters due to high snow).<\/span><\/p>\n

Zoji La:<\/b> It is a high mountain pass located in the Kargil district of Ladakh. It <\/span>links the Union Territory of Ladakh with the rest of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Project Beacon?<\/b><\/h5>\n

It was launched in the 1960’s. This is the oldest project of the BRO. The project currently looks after road infrastructure development and maintenance in the important areas of Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Project Vijayak?<\/b><\/h5>\n

It was launched by BRO in 2010. Project Vijayak along with Project <\/strong><\/a><\/span>Himank<\/strong> are responsible for the construction and maintenance of critical road infrastructure in Ladakh.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Border Roads Organisation constructs strategic bridge in Arunachal Pradesh<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What are the other important projects of BRO?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Project DANTAK<\/a>: <\/b>It was established in 1961 with the objective of developing roads, telecommunication networks and other such landmark infrastructure-related projects in Bhutan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Project Sampark:<\/b> It was raised by BRO in 1975. It looks after the construction, improvement and maintenance of strategic roads in the border district of Jammu, Kathua, Doda, Udhampur, Rajouri, Reasi and Poonch.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read More:\u00a0<\/b>Project Himank and Umling La Pass<\/b><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Source: <\/b>T<\/span>his post is based on the article <\/span>\u2018<\/b>Border Roads Organisation breaks record at ZojiLa battling extreme weather conditions<\/b>\u2019 <\/b>published in<\/span> PIB <\/b>on 4th Jan 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the News? Border Roads Organisation(BRO) through its frontline projects \u2013 Vijayak and Beacon has created a new record by keeping the Zoji La pass on the Srinagar\u2013Leh National Highway open for vehicular traffic (Usually, it remains closed in winters due to high snow). Zoji La: It is a high mountain pass located in… Continue reading Project Beacon and Project Vijayak: Border Roads Organisation breaks record at ZojiLa battling extreme weather conditions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-158614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":40,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1699083599},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}