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Chiling, Ladakh: "Making a road is a measure of a nation's sovereignty. It exercises command and control, and it says that these are my people". Lt Gen Raghu Srinivasan, the Director General of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) says of the critical road connectivity being built up in Eastern Ladakh and Siachen in the backdrop of the two-front threat from China and Pakistan. In this exclusive interview with StratNews Global's Amitabh P. Revi on the frozen Zanskar River 'Chadar' Trail at Chiling near Leh in Ladakh, the DG notes "The impetus has over the last five or six years been a surge in what we are planning to do and are doing in Ladakh. The amount of projects which are being planned at the National and the Union Territory levels, the amount of funding, which is provided, and the way that projects are being cleared, all of it is phenomenal. We've not seen anything like it." Watch the complete interview with Lt Gen Raghu Srinivasan, the DG of the BRO in our series, 'The Himalayan Frontier'. Part V.
On the differences in road infrastructure in China-occupied Tibet and across the LAC, Lt Gen Srinivasan points out, "the Tibetan Plateau is at a lower altitude-between 12000 to 14000 feet. And it's a flat tabletop. There are no mountain ranges. So, whatever you're constructing is on a flat piece of ground. That's number one. Number two, the mountains are the watershed. That means whatever snow or moisture is going to come is going to stop in our portion. Tibet really is a flat, barren, cold desert. For anyone who constructs roads, moisture or water is a great enemy. That's what we need to work on. And see that we have ways by which we have adequate drainage. So whatever roads we construct are not washed away. Then starting from the south, you have the great Himalayan range, the Ladakh Range, and the Karakoram. There are a series of ranges. We have a very fragile mountain base. They are young mountains in terms of the Himalayas, and these are landslide-prone. With moisture, they become avalanche-prone and naturally you keep ascending, and you keep gaining height and then keep descending and losing height. So, the zig-zags that we have in each of these is essentially to get over a series of mountain ranges, which we have over an expanse of Ladakh, which is approximately 60,000 square kilometres".
SNG's team of Amitabh P. Revi, Rohit Pandita, and Karan Marwaha documented their journey to Leh on the strategic third, alternate axis-the Darcha-Padam-Nimu (NPD) Road, in episode III and episode IV. The route provides critical connectivity for defence logistics to and civilian
development around the Northern China-occupied Tibet border or Line of Actual Control (LAC), the Line of Control (LoC), and the Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL) in Siachen with Pakistan. It is shielded from both the India-China border and the frontier with Pakistan, unlike the other two axes. StratNews Global's team travels during the fourth winter of India's forward deployment post Xi Jinping's aggression that led to the deadly Galwan clashes in 2020. The freezing temperatures highlight one of the several challenges the BRO faces in recce-ing, tracing, drilling through the mighty ranges, and building black-top roads on this route. India's infrastructure development has seen a sustained thrust, especially after China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) salami-slicing tactics in border areas.
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Great to be a part of Border road organisation.... श्रमेण सर्वम साध्यम
God bless the BRO. My father was a part of it in the 60's. We lived in Gangtok, he commanded the swastik base depot, almost every day there were casualties. He was from the corps of engineers Bengal Seppers.
BRO is one of the best working company....At kishtwar❤❤❤
Thanks to all of you
I have travelled in Ladakh. My Himalayan salutations to BRO.
👍🏾 @chakradharmahapatra1948
Fabulous, I think the Google Maps have added the Zing to this masterely effort. Thanks a lot Amitabh and the whole team. Keep up the great work. 👍 😊
glad you liked it @anilganjoo8401 🙂
words can't justify the level of effort this team put to bring story from these harshest or harsh terrain... Kudos guys
That is a lot of insight we got from Lt Gen Raghu Srinivasan. Thank you for visiting him during winter, and enduring the permanent cold. I have visited many of the places and roads on the Chinese side like the road from Kashgar to Pakistan and the road from Lhasa to Kathmandu. Once i did also travel the road from Golmud to Lhasa during winter, and I never did this trip a second time. Most of the roads on the Chinese side were built decades ago, and lack tunnels and strong bridges. This means winter and landslides will close such connections many times in summer and winter. For example, before even planning to travel from China to Pakistan, people will go to the Kasgar bus station and ask if it is open for traffic. Usually this road is closed during winter for about four months. During COVID, the connection remained completely closed and has now been opened only a few days ago. This shows how important modern and dependable roads connecting Ladakh with India are, and the advantage of such connections that are in operation for 12 months every year.
No respect for media only respect for the indian army who is protecting us day and night all time
We are Thank full of great our all' military son.of BHARAT.
12000 ft, -12 Deg C Brave hearts are connecting places to people tirelessly. ❤ the presentation. Jai Hind
Love the coverage, thanks to StratNewsglobal to bring these details in most simple manner to the public. Thanks to the BRO men and women who work round the clock in building the infrastructure
👍🏾🙏🏾 @muraliperumbedu5038
Our unsung heroes thank you for bringing up here jai Bharat jai Hind🎉❤❤❤
What an educated and articulate General! Thank you for the your service to our great nation! Respect 🙏🇮🇳
Keep up the good work
will do @bhanupratapsing2217
absolutely fascinating ......... thanks team stratnewsglobal for presenting this beautiful series.
fabulous work being done by BRO.. Jai Hind!!
Brilliant series,shows us what the on-ground situation is
Very nice work you all are doing thank you so very much 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
👍🏾🙏🏾 @Ladakh15
We are proud of BRO, Wonderful and very informative conversation between General Ragu and Amitabh .
Very Great.Salute you Sir.
Super Awesome! Congratulations to the crew for showing the harshness our brave people negotiate to victory!
👍🏾🙏🏾 @sanjeevgarg4336
Simply mind boggling. A big Salute to the dedication of these heroes. Very interesting too😊
Jai hind
Brilliant work done by #StratNewsGlobal 🙏🚩
🙏🏾 @mr.d2124
Jai Hind Jai BRO
Excellent no wordstoappreiate
👍🏾🙏🏾 @vp4439
Awesome coverage. Kudos to our Will & Support of Govt, Conviction of these brave hearts for their sacrifice to make it reality. I could see Amithab is really freezing & having hard to even speak. Great journalism.
appreciate it 🙏🏾 @ykrishv
The best coverage to the root ....🎉
I am proud of you BRO and the boys who build the roads ❤️
Wonderful interview. I promptly bought the two books from Amazon.
Salute to BRO, Indian Army, IAF personnel. Pray to Mahakal to shower HIS blessings.
Great Episode Thank you
Brave heart warriors 😊
Fantastic SIR
excellent interview
🙏🏾👍🏾 @PraneshSacher
The maps in between the talk really help us to understand the geography. Great series.
👍🏾 @arpansaxena137
Jai Hind
Bravo BRO !!!
Beautiful interview and very impressed with Lt. General Raghu Srinivasan. What an energy from your officer, your knowledge of terrain and the clarity with which you spoke is beyond exceptional. Thank your sir to you and to your team for this amazing job.
thank you for giving positive feedback @cherrykollipara5932
@@amitabhrevi Great effort by you and team. Looking forward to more quality content from you.
Love this series want more of it, keep doing good hard work as you all alway do. 👍
Hats off to Amitabh, Rohit and Karan. One of the best episodes so far!
🙏🏾 @tusharsinha538 as @MaTara01 pointed out hat was off 😉
Excellent and very much informative about the mountains & valleys
@sunilshokeen9017 👍🏾glad you find these episodes informative
Proud of the General Raghu
This is really awesome video. Please keep covering North India as well as Southern India too.
Great salute to BRO and Amitabh ji
Awesomes sir , this type of report connect people of India and understand the challenges to construct road for our army. Congrats
🙏🏾👍🏾 @yogeshkumarsahu9478
Keenly following this series; keep it going. StratNewsGlobal should do a LOT more of these kind of series (LOVED the Arunachal series as well!)
Fantastic Amitabh and STG team 👏👏👏 Love the BRO!
👍🏾🙏🏾 @kns6132
Salute to BRO
Loved the show. It felt like I was there myself. Amitabh and Raghu-ji Namaskar and thank you.
🙏🏾 @snathan3198 you should go there too
@@amitabhrevi Definitely hope to some day, thank you!
@@snathan3198👏🏾👍🏾
Great effort to bring information about the transformation being undertaken by the BRO to the people of the country !!! The heroic efforts of the people who man BRO will always be remembered by our nation. Congratulations & best wishes to the people who lead the nation's efforts to checkmate two adversaries with good infrastructure!
We r now a proud nation #narendramodi #greatleadership
Very nice,, for accurate ground reports
Wow ! What an interview.🙏 thanks Amitabh.
thanks @ronny383
Thanks for this report set in a breathtaking landscape! Interesting to listen to Gen. Raghu Srinivasan talk about the work of building road networks in such challenging terrain. Their strategic importance in enhancing connectivity in frontier areas, goes without saying. No less amazing was the sight of Amitabh Revi braving sub-zero temperatures (without so much as a cap), while having a chat with the general over the frozen river!
kind words @jovianjollity5244 glad you appreciate the interview 😊
Lovely reports Amitabh… look forward to more
👍🏾 @shrihari511
Awesome stuff
👍🏾🙏🏾 @gautamsawhny6246
wonderful series
👍🏾🙏🏾 @kalyan2812
Another amazing and very well produced episode @amitabhrevi 👌 👏 👍 I do share these with my Army/Navy/IAF friends as well as others across the globe. There's a lot of interest in India's infra push towards the LAC. Hope to see more such insightful docu-series in future. Way to go!
🙏🏾 @davesen1 appreciate your support
Medîa is very hippocratic real salute to the indian army who sacrifices there life defending the nation
Wow! Terrific video Amitabh Sir! ... Salutes to Srinivasan Sir and his team 🙏🙏 Just wished to know if there are NATIVES (Ladakhis) living currently in places like Nimo, Chiling etc etc - the vital points! 🙏
@vherlekar 🙏🏾for the appreciation. of course there are. why would you think there aren’t?
@@amitabhrevi thanks for prompt reply Amitabh Sir! ♥👍👆 I didn't notice seeing any local communities/settlements in the video (mayb I missed it!) hence my query 🙏 Best wishes, and keep it up! 👍 Jai Hind!
@vherlekar 👍🙏
Thanks!
appreciate your support @aloksharma4611 🙏🏾
At -12 degrees, I guess he really *is* chilling. 😎
chilling at chiling ❄️😎🙂😂as @MaTara01 pointed out @qwertyca
Wow nice i walked over this frozen river last year during my chadar trekk from chilling to nerak. It took almost 5 days to complete this trail chilling- nerak -chilling during chilling month of January. During night temperature used to go below -35 degrees Celsius 🥶 . Nostalgia 🥰🥰
super @kumarviveksingh what a wonderful experience that must have been. thanks 🙏🏾 for sharing. soon, apart from those who do the trek(like the adventurous few like you) there will be a crucial road. see our earlier episodes
Amitabh, how the hell did you manage to film in -12C chilling Chilling without a hat on?! I am freezing just looking at the icy cold awe-inspiring landscape! 😱 As for the BRO guys & General Srinivasan, they are real heroes, unlike us keyboard warriors! Here's raising a 🥃 to them! Jai Hind ! ❤️ 🇮🇳
chilling in chilling! ❄️@MaTara01 thought about using that 😊
@@amitabhrevi I just had to use it to signal my MENSA level IQ and my lack of restraint!! 😊
@@MaTara01😉
@@amitabhrevi 🤩
i think 3 pag of vodka can do it i know
We want more documentaries like these 😀❤️
sure @anonymous_346.0
Fantastic information sir, but at the same time fragile mountains are being destroyed and Ladhaki People are protesting to save the glaciers and many other things as well. But here you don't ask such questions and it looks sad. Good work by you and team sng but please clear these doubts.
Pls make more programs. Thanks
more to come @ronny383
Very nice episode Amithab ji, kudos to you and your team for it! Since you requested feedback, sharing one. You may like to add some video footages to showcase the difficulties and the work being done in challenging circumstances as elaborated by Lt.Gen Raghu Srinivasan while he speaks about it. Now, I understand you may not be able to record such instances on your visit, one possibility could be to seek such pictures/ videos from the BRO itself and share it in the episode (with due acknowledgement). That should contribute to take the episodes altogether to newer heights ! For example one video clip shown of a machine crossing river bed was captivating. More of such is the ask ! Hope the input makes sense and helps. Keep up the good work! 🙏🏻👏👏👏
agree @jayantabhattacharya192 suggestion noted
Jai, saab
The anchor is shivering 😅... so cold out their
it was cold dude @ccviralvideo2023 anyone would shiver 😀
Kindly get some information on an altogether different axis that someone was telling me about. It is the Pathankot - Dhar - Dunera - Basohli - Bani - Bhaderwah road, which then leads to Kishtwar - Macchail and finally Padum over the mighty Umasi La. Then there is the often overlooked Pathankot Dalhousie - Salooni - Langhera - Padhri Jot - Bhaderwah road. I hope to see reports on those two axes as well.
An excellent video which was sorely needed. Now after seeing the 5th part I'll go and watch parts 1-4 😆😆. Good video & audio production too, which is often lacking in Indian YT vids.
👍🏾🙏🏾 @hsjawanda and after you see parts 1-4 keep an eye out for post part 5 episodes. do also share the links with family, friends, colleagues and all those who would be interested, if you’re so inclined
@@amitabhrevi Definitely sharing this. This series needs much wider exposure. So many Indians know so little about all these issues. So much meaningless chest-thumping (among the civilians), without knowing the ground realities.
🙏🏾 @hsjawanda
Please launch hindi version of all videos as many people watch in hindi thanks 🙏 Jai Hind 🇮🇳
coming soon @skyrahul_83 on our sister channels @bharatshakti in hindi and marathi, for now.
I like the general...seems like a great dude! Cheers!
Don't call the General 'dude' please.
@@mohan02chill brah dude is not a bad word in any sense.
@@mohan02hmara boss hai kya? Had hai Bhai tum log ki When will you leave the colonial mindset behind. We the people are free and the officers aren't there to rule over us they are there to serve us.
I guess we are leaking information to chinies too with precise details?????? Nice series although
no we are not leaking info @joy034 all in open domain and these routes are public roads. glad you like the series, though 🙂
@@amitabhrevi ok भाऊ , वैसे धांसू लोकेशन थी काफी और कैमरा एंगल, काफी पॉपुलर होगा ये इंटरव्यू
@@JOY034 भाई thank you ki aapne स्ट्रैट न्यूज़ ग्लोबल टीम ke "धांसू लोकेशन और कैमरा एंगल" ko appreciate kiya. पॉपुलर ya naheen होगा ये इंटरव्यू aap log hi batayenge 🙂
I have a suggestion, if BRO can add glowing side strips and dividing strips like we see in foreign nations. It will be more beneficial and safer when it comes to driving experience,it will also reduce the consumption of electricity for 💡. 😊
Hii Sir can you cover the Sasoma Saser la Gapsan daulat beg oldi new alignment.......😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
@ashutoshMishra-yb8md we will in this series as we go forward and even more in further reports
I think Amitabh what you are doing is important and shows how india is thinking strategically. Can you do if possible a timplelapse of before 2014 and after 2014.
@stratnewsglobal can do it @santoshpashupatimath5950 but have you considered all this takes money. how can we keep doing our work without funding? if you would like to support us: stratnewsglobal.com/support-us/
At least to hold this country together, road act like root of a trees. Roads will bind the country together.
कृपया सभी वीडियो का हिंदी संस्करण लॉन्च करें क्योंकि बहुत से लोग हिंदी में देखते हैं धन्यवाद 🙏 जय हिन्द 🇮🇳
@skyrahul_83 जल्द आ रहा है। हमारे सहयोगी चैनल भारतशक्ति पर हिंदी और मराठी में
पब्लिक से पैसा इक्ट्ठा कर लेना लेकिन ये ऑर्गेनाइजेशन को प्राइवेटाइजेशन से बचा लेना😂 बाकी bro एक उदाहरण है के सरकारी संस्थाएं भी प्राइवेट सेक्टर को मात दे सकती है 😂 जियो BRO
Modi ji Bharat maa great great son. Strength ing eyery area. Bharat completed Re construction. High ways . Airport etc
Sir, I have one concern about these videos, these videos won't be a strategic high ground to the Chinese right? Because even before the completion of road construction the videos are live on KZhead. Even though the Chinese can watch it though their satellites but this much high resolution I don't think so Please reply
Bro these roads for Bikers like you Govt wants people like you all be there This as simple to say as you can't leave a vacant house or plot in same way govt doesn't want leave areas vacant So go and delight yourself the beautiful mother land has in store
@@ARShankertrue
#Stratnewsglobal & @amitabhrevi Please produce a series on the contested positions on the Aksai Chin side. There are a lot of disonfo peddlers out there as well as their propagators on X (Ajai Shukla being 1). We need more evidence based frontier videos to quash info war.
Solar subsidies will apply but supply chains
Kam sub kurte apne deshkeliye mehnat subki hoti pur huseen mehnat huseen dimag huseen log hi kurpate
Have a very naive question. Why can't we make overbridges to connect these areas? Bridges can be prefabricated and very quickly can be mounted.
Bridges cannot be made everywhere in the Himalayas due to various factors ranging from financial to topographical. Also, the amount of snow that Ladakh gets in winters makes roads and bridges inaccessible. That's why India is building weather proof roads in the forward areas that are accessible by the armed forces to counteract the increasing Chinese belligerence all along the Indo-Tibet border.
@@MaTara01 if we make overbridges, rocksliding issue won't be there. Sneow can be cleared in intervals as we do incase of roads. Road length will be reduced. Perhaps only issues will be financial and extreme variance in temperature. Not sure, but concrete can Crack due to this temperature variance.
@@mexicanmomo I think the terrain is too hazardous, given the fact that the Himalayas are actively growing due to tectonic movements resulting in seismic activity; also it's a watershed as the General mentioned - some of the fastest & mightiest rivers of the world emerge from the Tibetan plateau carving out the narrowest of valleys through vertical cliff faces of the hardest rocks; the climate is also hostile to support overbridges etc..I think if the connectivity solutions were so easy, then they would have already been done. The only way to ensure all weather connectivity in the high altitude Himalayas is tunneling, and that too is extremely difficult, given the nature of the rocks.
@mexicanmomo overbridges from where to where? there are bridges over rivers. you are suggesting over bridges say over rohtang or zoji la passes? there are tunnels under them. more being built as we showed in our earlier episodes
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(Consider) Development mostly for 16 embassies, seven {continents} means closure of this cradle of civilisation potentially and diaspora, but eventually Saturn closure
We need POK and aksai chin😂😂
Are they sitting on frozen ice?
oh yes we are @rarediamond6868 it was about 1.5 m of ice over the zanskar river. much less though than in years passed
@@amitabhrevi wow!
@@rarediamond6868 chiling in chilling as one of our regylar viewers @MataTara01 says 🥶
Why don't we use tall stick markers all along the road to know where a given road is when it is covered by heavy snow? These metal stakes could have a little flag at the top and could be of appropriate heights so as to be visible even in the worst and heaviest snow fall! These cannot be very expensive to do! Just an idea!!
I think you are overly optimistic about the ability of tall metal sticks to withstand Himalayan winter conditions at those heights.
@@MaTara01 They use it in Canada all around the neighbourhood especially where the fire hydrants are. So that the snow plows do not hit and damage a fire hydrant. At times there are more than a foot of snow falls in Canada. I have lived in Canada for over 50 years! Make the sticks stronger and higher rather than risk the vehicles to miss the road and fall off the cliff. Put as strong a stick and make it of colour that is easily visible as a light pole to save lives!
@@user-rs5lu2ds2h Thanks for your precious input but you have missed the most obvious point that Ladakh is NOT Canada.
@@MaTara01 So what is your suggestion, if any? Other than keep arguing with me on it! It is a low tech simple inexpensive solution to know where the heck is the road so vehicles do not go off road man! It is not the question of Ladakh is not Canada and no one said it is. (BTW, parts of Canada is in arctic circle and I cannot imagine Ladakh where roads are built gets as much snow as some parts of Canada way up north) It is the question that in Ladakh falls so much snow that even the snow plows do not know where the road is and a man has to walk in front of it so it does not go off road. That is what I heard the general say! I do not have time to argue with you not putting up any suggestion but keep knocking down what I say. Take a chill man!
@@user-rs5lu2ds2h I think you should offer your stellar engineering acumen to the BRO, bro. Have you got the Nobel yet?
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It'll be best if we don't discuss about the two -front war too much at present, especially to woo our citizens. We have just started since the last 10 years.Air force says that we need atleast 42 squadrons of 4.5th/5th gen aircrafts , Army needs many modern equipments like radars, missiles,guns, wheeled howitzers or mounted guns ,Armour protected vehicles clothes etc etc, Navy needs many nuclear and conventional submarines and ship's,its just tip of the iceberg. We don't have even half of those requirements. Modi is in power since the last 10 years but no significant developments in defence sector. Our indigenous defence projects are very slow though bit better than the congress days, Tejas weapon systems are still not ready till date,and even when its ready it'll be very outdated compared to the 5th gen fighters of our adversaries. AMCA will take atleast 20 years to start entering services. Only Hope is our land Army and their courage,valour and their tradition of sacrificing their lives for the nation in the ratio of 1:5. If Modi can do some miracle in the coming years will decide the fate of our nation. Till then we shouldn't advertise the 2front war too much,lest it becomes a reality. Along with our indigenous defence projects we also have to import important requirements in emergency mode otherwise it'll be too late. We need nuclear submarines and 5th gen fighters very soon..Agni5 MIRV is quite a good addition and needs many more such missiles with atleast 5 MIRV.
How china is doing so much ........just in 5 years they have completed all roads on the border. And we just are talking on doing a challenging task just on media. Do the work .
China is using slave labour to get it all done.
China have more plateau region there more plains so they can do it faster not like us
no footage of actual work, pity.
huh @ram76157 ? see episodes before this that culminate in this interview
since you insist on being spoon fed @ram76157 kzhead.info/sun/iq-loayjkWWZp2g/bejne.htmlsi=6S4h7034QadBJ5EQ
and kzhead.info/sun/YJWaeallZHiKpWg/bejne.htmlsi=vTQTYmbsS1rrdZ0T @ram76157
Pls provide to Hindi language
coming soon @user-id1id1o60 on @bharatshakti our sister channel and in marathi too 😊
Why BRO is applauded so much I don't understand. BRO built roads get washed out every monsoon. All the do is cut the mountain and pave the track. There are no embacments, no support, no drainage, no anti rubble nets. Nothing. They are just glorified mule tracks that get washed out after every winter. BRO is just much ado about nothing. Chinese infra along the border is 100 times better. Every road in ladakh is in perpetual repair mode. You cant find a 10 km smooth road out there.
BRO is the most corrupt arm of Indian forces. Its just glorified PWD department. No technology, no innovation. Just pass tenders and repair the same road every year. Tracks made by donkeys and mules of Himalayan shepherds are more durable than BRO roads. Pathetic !