Border Roads organization

IN NEWS:

• With India and China clashes continuing, around 1,600 labourers from Jharkhand are on their way to forward areas in the Ladakh region to restart work on the infrastructure projects of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO).

ABOUT BRO:

• Border Roads Organisation, popularly known as BRO, is a civil engineering institution responsible to provide civil (construction) engineering cover to the Armed Forces of India, during war and peace.
• The organisation is manned partly by civil engineers drawn from Corps of Engineers of the Army, but mainly by those recruited exclusively for BRO.
• The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) develops and maintains road networks in India's border areas and friendly neighboring countries.
• Currently, the organization maintains operations in twenty-one states, one UT (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), and neighboring countries such as Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka.
• The BRO operates and maintains over 32,885 kilometers of roads and about 12,200 meters of permanent bridges in the country.
• In November 2017 BRO announced the plan to construct 17 road and rail tunnels, with a total length of 100 km, on some of the 73 strategic roads on Sino-Indian border to provide the year-round all-weather rail and road surface connectivity.

PRELIMS QUESTION:

Q. Consider the following statements regarding Border Roads organisation:

1. It has operations in all the states of India.
2. The engineering wing of BRO is drawn completely from the army.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

1. 1 only
2. 2 only
3. Both 1 and 2
4. Neither 1 nor 2

Answer to Prelims question