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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh dedicated 125 recently completed projects of Border Roads Organisation to the federation from Leh connected Sunday (December 7, 2025), calling them a "vivid example" of government's committedness to bolstering India's borderline infrastructure.
These strategically important projects — built astatine a outgo of ₹5,000 crore and dispersed crossed the Union Territories of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir, and 7 States including Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Mizoram — consisted of 28 roads, 93 bridges and 4 miscellaneous works.
The lawsuit marked the largest single-day and highest-value inauguration successful the past of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO).
Ladakh Lieutenant Governor Kavinder Gupta received the Defence Minister upon his accomplishment successful Leh and joined him successful the inauguration event.
"The valour and bravery of our soldiers are successful themselves an inspiration for us. These infrastructure projects are the nation's tribute to those heroes who laid down their lives successful the work of the nation," the Defence Minister said.
He said borderline roads are the "lifelines of nationalist security" and improved connectivity has a nonstop interaction connected operational readiness.
"Enhanced roadworthy networks, real-time connection systems and satellite-based surveillance are present allowing Indian soldiers to run with greater velocity and precision successful guardant areas," helium said.
Mr. Singh praised the BRO for consistently finishing projects up of docket and adopting caller technologies aligned with the government's imaginativeness of Atmanirbhar Bharat (Self-Reliant India).
He emphasised that stronger borderline connectivity not lone fortifies security, but besides stabilises section economies, enhances catastrophe effect — arsenic seen during rescue operations aft cloudburst successful Jammu and Kashmir's Chasoți — and strengthens people's religion successful governance successful distant regions.
"Our equipped forces, BRO personnel, and citizens of borderline areas unneurotic signifier a corporate shield of nationalist security," Mr. Singh said, urging that their enslaved indispensable proceed to grow.
The Defence Minister underlined that the 920-metre Shyok Tunnel, constructed on the Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldi Road successful Ladakh, is an engineering marvel that volition supply all-weather connectivity to 1 of the astir hard subject terrains successful the world.
The tunnel, helium said, volition sharply heighten mobility, logistics transportation and accelerated deployment capability, peculiarly during harsh winters marked by dense snowfall and avalanches.
"Our brave soldiers successful the equipped forces and each BRO employees are continuously moving for the country. The tone you person to enactment successful immoderate weather, successful immoderate situation, is wherefore our state is continuously touching caller heights," helium said.
Mr. Singh said the completion of 125 projects successful grounds clip is impervious of the resoluteness for a developed India and a vivid illustration of the government's unwavering committedness to strengthening borderline infrastructure.
The recently inaugurated projects volition heighten mobility of the equipped forces, guarantee creaseless transportation of logistics, boost tourism, make employment opportunities and summation economical activities, the Defence Minister said.
Most importantly, specified projects fortify people's religion successful development, government, the strategy and democracy, helium added.
