{"id":90528,"date":"2020-05-20T00:16:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T18:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15559"},"modified":"2020-05-20T00:16:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T18:46:22","slug":"govt-accepts-shekatkar-recommendations-to-boost-border-roads-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-accepts-shekatkar-recommendations-to-boost-border-roads-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt accepts Shekatkar recommendations to boost border roads projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Government of India has accepted and implemented three important recommendations relating to border infrastructure made by the Shekatkar Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Shekatkar Committee was set up by the Government of India to recommend measures on enhancing Combat Capability and Rebalancing Defence Expenditure.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Recommendations accepted and under implementation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Speeding up road construction and outsourcing road construction work beyond optimal capacity of the Border Roads Organisation(BRO).<\/li><li>Mandatory to adopt Engineering Procurement Contract(EPC) mode for execution of all works costing more than Rs 100 crore.<\/li><li>Delegating enhanced procurement powers from Rs 7.5 crore to Rs 100 crore to BRO for domestic and foreign procurements.<\/li><li>Introducing advanced new technologies to speed up construction such as precision blasting, use of geo-textiles for soil stabilisation using cementitious base for pavements and plastic coated aggregates for surfacing.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other Key Recommendations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India\u2019s defence budget should be in the range of 2.5 to 3% of the GDP.<\/li><li>A Joint Services War College for training middle-level officers should be established.<\/li><li>The Military Intelligence School at Pune should be converted to a tri-service intelligence training establishment.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Government of India has accepted and implemented three important recommendations relating to border infrastructure made by the Shekatkar Committee. Facts: The Shekatkar Committee was set up by the Government of India to recommend measures on enhancing Combat Capability and Rebalancing Defence Expenditure. Key Recommendations accepted and under implementation: Speeding up road construction and outsourcing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-accepts-shekatkar-recommendations-to-boost-border-roads-projects\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Govt accepts Shekatkar recommendations to boost border roads projects<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[738,7753],"class_list":["post-90528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-defence","tag-shekatkar-committee","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700771280,"cached_date":1704034423},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90528","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}