The Army and the Border Roads Organisation are working hard in the Ladakh region to create better road connectivity as they have have to look after two borders, with China and Pakistan. The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) completed the motorable road, the world’s highest such road, on Thursday to boost Army movement along the Line of Actual Control in that sector.
When Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made her first visit to the Ladakh region, she inaugurated the Pratham-Shyok Bridge which connects Leh to Karakoram. This bridge gave the Army passage for military transport to the important Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Olde axis near the China border. Similarly, the Army recently connected the Karkit area of Kargil by road. It was a part of Gilgit Baltistan but later became a part of Ladakh, following the 1971 India-Pakistan war.
The 54-km long road was constructed by the BRO in six years