{"id":26947,"date":"2020-08-18T05:52:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T05:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=26947"},"modified":"2020-08-18T05:52:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T05:52:14","slug":"bro-constructed-bailey-bridge-providing-connectivity-to-20-villages-in-uttarakhand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/bro-constructed-bailey-bridge-providing-connectivity-to-20-villages-in-uttarakhand\/","title":{"rendered":"BRO constructed bailey bridge providing connectivity to 20 villages in Uttarakhand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has constructed a 180-feet bailey bridge in Jauljibi sector of Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand in less than three weeks despite frequent landslides and heavy rains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The 50-metre span concrete bridge was completely washed out on July 27, 2020 when cloudburst hit the area and the nallas and rivers were flooded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This caused a mud flow of tremendous force. There were many casualties also due to landslides and the road communication was broken.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BRO mobilised its bridging resources and setup to construct the bridge. The biggest challenge was to transport parts to the site from Pithoragarh amidst frequent landslides and heavy rains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bridge was successfully completed on August 16, 2020. This has led to accessing flood affected villages and has connected Jauljibi to Munsiyari.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The connectivity will bring relief to about 15,000 people in 20 villages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The constructed bridge has resumed road communication of 66-kilometre road starting from Jauljibi to Munsiyari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has constructed a 180-feet bailey bridge in Jauljibi sector of Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand in less than three weeks despite frequent landslides and heavy rains. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The 50-metre span concrete bridge was completely washed out on July 27, 2020 when cloudburst hit the area and the nallas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":26948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1248],"tags":[70],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-26947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-august-2020","tag-uttarakhand-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26949,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26947\/revisions\/26949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26947"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=26947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}