Building roads at high altitudes

The Border Roads Organisation has been tasked with building 64 strategic roads, stretching across 3500 km with 100 bridges, tunnels and highways along India’s border areas.

20 Jun 2022 | 5239 Views | By Shahkar Abidi

Sonam Nawang, a tourist taxi driver from Ladakh during one of his travelling assignments in 1997 chanced upon some Chinese settlements across mountainous terrains, presumably on the Indian side of the Indo-China border. Time lapsed since then even as the settlements increased with each passing year. 

The situation changed dramatically around ...

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