New Delhi, May 2 -- Truly and most justifiably, India's Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is in the essential services list through the COVID-19 lockdown, with not a day's rest, connecting to remote border areas in the crisis, true to their motto, 'BRO creates, connects and cares'. Care means that it maintains the constructed bridge, road, installation to ensure its continuous serviceability, which gets affected owing to heavy snow, landslides, or floods.

A low-key organization, BRO re-opened the strategic Srinagar-Leh highway that connects Ladakh with the rest of India on April 11, 2020. About 18 oil tankers and other essential commodities were initially allowed to move towards Ladakh from Zojilla pass, a challenging process, which was ma...