{"id":10439,"date":"2023-05-06T03:27:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T21:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10439"},"modified":"2025-03-29T20:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T14:46:52","slug":"what-is-project-dantak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-project-dantak\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Project Dantak?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Project Dantak:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Project Dantak is an <strong>overseas project of the Border Roads Organisation<\/strong> <strong>(BRO)<\/strong> under the Ministry of Defence of India.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>established on 24 April 1961<\/strong> as a result of an <strong>agreement between Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, the third king of Bhutan<\/strong> and then Prime Minister of India <strong>Jawahar Lal Nehru.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is primarily focused on <strong>developing infrastructure and providing connectivity<\/strong> in <strong>remote areas of Bhutan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was tasked <strong>to construct the pioneering motorable roads in Bhutan<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>completed the road connecting Samdrup Jongkhar to Trashigang in 1968<\/strong>. In the same year, Thimphu was connected to Phuentsholing by Dantak.<\/li>\n<li>Some other <strong>notable projects<\/strong> executed by the project include the <strong>construction of Paro Airport, Yonphula Airfield, Thimphu<\/strong> \u2013 Trashigang Highway, Telecommunication &amp; Hydro Power Infrastructure, Sherubtse College, Kanglung and India House Estate.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>project recruits local workers from Bhutan as well as Indian workers from adjoining districts<\/strong> along the India-Bhutan border.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Border Roads Organisation (BRO)?<\/h3>\n<p>The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is a road construction executive force in India that provides support to Indian Armed Forces. BRO develops and maintains road networks in India&#8217;s border areas and friendly neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmindia.gov.in\/en\/news_updates\/pm-praises-initiative-by-border-roads-organisation-project-dantak-to-commemorate-64th-raising-day\/?comment=disable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM praises initiative by Border Roads Organisation Project Dantak to commemorate 64th Raising Day<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Dantak is an overseas project of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) under the Ministry of Defence of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}