Parwinder SandhuNew Delhi, Dec. 8 -- In a major boost to India's defensive posture along the China-facing frontier, a batch of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) projects in the Northeast inaugurated by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday, are being seen as a response to China's infrastructure build-up in Tibet.
Among the 125 projects inaugurated, a significant number of the projects were completed in the North-Eastern States.
In Arunachal Pradesh, Sela-Chabrela-BJG Road and Shungester-Sulula Road, alongwith bridges like Lumla I and II Bridges and Shungetsar I and II Bridges were inaugurated.
Owing to its proximity to China's Tibet Autonomous Region and bearing in mind the critical position the northeast occupies in India's frontier de...