India, Dec. 8 -- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday inaugurated 125 infrastructure projects built by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), including the iconic 920m cut and cover Shyok Tunnel (12,523 ft) on the strategic Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldie (DS-DBO) road in Ladakh.

These infrastructure projects, which included 28 new roads, 93 bridges, and four critical facilities, are spread across Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir and seven other border states, namely Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and West Bengal.

The assets, worth '5,000 crores, are expected to upgrade India's capability to move troops, secure borders and connect remote frontier villages across the high-altitude frontiers of the N...