{"id":11018,"date":"2023-05-21T09:11:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T03:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11018"},"modified":"2025-03-30T00:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:33:44","slug":"baralacha-la-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/baralacha-la-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Baralacha La Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Baralacha La Pass:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>high mountain pass<\/strong> located along the <strong>Leh-Manali highway<\/strong> that <strong>connects Leh district in Ladakh<\/strong> and <strong>Lahaul district in Himachal Pradesh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is situated in the Zanskar range.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It lies <strong>close to River Bhaga<\/strong>, which <strong>originates from the Surya Taal Lake<\/strong> &amp; is a <strong>tributary of the River Chenab.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Elevation<\/strong>: It is located at the height of <strong>16,040 feet<\/strong> above the sea level and is one of the <strong>highest motorable passes in India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It also finds <strong>mention in Rudyard Kipling&#8217;s celebrated novel &#8216;Kim&#8217;<\/strong>, wherein the source of the Suraj Tal is used by the novel&#8217;s character Lama to enter into India from Tibet.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is the Border Roads Organisation (BRO)?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u00a0 is a <strong>road construction executive force<\/strong> in India that provides <strong>support to Indian Armed Forces.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>formed<\/strong> <strong>on 7 May 1960 to secure India&#8217;s borders and develop infrastructure<\/strong> in remote areas of the north and north-east states of the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Motto<\/strong>: The organisation motto is <strong>Shramena Sarvam Sadhyam\u00a0 (everything is achievable through hardwork).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>BRO <strong>develops and maintains road networks in India&#8217;s border areas<\/strong> and friendly neighboring countries.<\/li>\n<li>This includes <strong>infrastructure operations<\/strong> in 19 states and three union territories (including Andaman and Nicobar Islands) <strong>and neighboring countries<\/strong> such as Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, Tajikistan and Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n<li>Officers and personnel from the General Reserve Engineer Force (GREF) form the parent cadre of the BRO.<\/li>\n<li>It is also <strong>staffed by Officers and Troops drawn from the Indian Army&#8217;s Corps of Engineers<\/strong> on extra regimental employment (on deputation).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Border Roads Organisation (BRO)?<\/h3>\n<p>It\u00a0 is a road construction executive force in India that provides support to Indian Armed Forces. It was formed on 7 May 1960 to secure India&#8217;s borders and develop infrastructure in remote areas of the north and north-east states of the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/border-roads-organisation-rescues-over-70-people-stranded-at-hps-baralacha-la-pass\/1585925\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Border Roads Organisation rescues over 70 people stranded at HP\u2019s Baralacha La Pas<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baralacha La Pass is a high mountain pass located along the Leh-Manali highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11018","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\/11018","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=11018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}