AMID tension with China along the Line of Actual Control, India’s focus on increasing connectivity with northern borders was conspicuous on Tuesday as Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated 90 infrastructure projects of Border Roads Organisation (BRO), worth over ₹2,900 crore. These projects, spread across 11 states and Union Territories, were inaugurated by the minister at an event in Jammu.
According to the Ministry of Defence, of the 90 projects, 36 are in Arunachal Pradesh; 26 in Ladakh; 11 in Jammu & Kashmir; five in Mizoram; three in Himachal Pradesh; two each in Sikkim, Uttarakhand and West Bengal, and one each in Nagaland, Rajasthan and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
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