{"id":197537,"date":"2022-08-09T00:17:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T18:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=197537"},"modified":"2022-08-09T00:17:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T18:47:06","slug":"6195-km-of-border-roads-are-under-construction-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/08\/09\/6195-km-of-border-roads-are-under-construction-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"6,195 km of border roads are under construction: Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, Aug 8 (PTI) A total of 6,195 km of border roads are currently under construction, Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Between 2017-18 and 2021-22, a total of 3,595 km of border roads were constructed by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), the minister said in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BRO constructs roads on the basis of strategic requirements of a region and priority fixed by the Indian Army, Bhatt said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides providing connectivity for easy transportation of security forces in frontline areas, these roads are beneficial in quick mobilisation of troops in cases of exigencies, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roads in border areas not only help in connecting the remotely located villages but also in the overall socio-economic development of the region, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Aug 8 (PTI) A total of 6,195 km of border roads are currently under construction, Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt said on Monday. Between 2017-18 and 2021-22, a total of 3,595 km of border roads were constructed by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), the minister said in a written reply to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-197537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}