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Army engineers and Border Roads Organization on Wednesday have restored the road link between Rajouri and Budhal after building a 180-ft bailey bridge, the longest ever in Jammu and Kashmir.
Pointing out that the double storey bridge has been constructed over the Ans river at Kotranka, an Udhampur based defence ministry spokesman Colonel S D Goswami said that the army engineers and BRO personnel worked round the clock to complete its construction within the shortest possible time so that the relief and rehabilitation material could reach people in remotest part of the state.
Another bailey bridge is also being constructed by them over river Ans at Kotranka so as to restore critical road link between Rajouri and Reasi districts. The road link between them had got broken following the washing away of one of the abutments of a concrete bridge during flash floods separating nearly 1.40 lakh people living on both sides of the river from each other.
During the last few days, nearly 10,000 personnel of Army engineers and the Border Roads Organization, equipped with an over 400 dozers, excavators and JCBs, besides 300 tippers and dumpers, have restored road links at over 1,000 places which had been damaged by landslides and flash floods. This has been apart from various bridges constructed by them across the state, Colonel Goswami pointed out.
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