Entrusted with the crucial responsibility of building and maintaining strategic roads all over the country, the Border Road Organisation (BRO), despite the coronavirus pandemic, has managed to construct a permanent bridge in Punjab, thereby, providing the much needed relief to farmers in the region.
The bridge is on river Ravi in border region of Gurdaspur connecting Kasowal enclave in Punjab to the rest of the country and it was built ahead of its schedule. The enclave of around 35 square kilometres had hither to been connected via pontoon bridge of limited load capacity.
The pontoon bridge used to be dismantled every year prior to the monsoon or else it would have got washed away in the strong currents of the river.
