BRO gets Eight Shaurya Chakras, Two for Taliban Infested Afghanistan
The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) achieves a distinction when the President Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil would confer tomorrow as many as eight Shaurya Chakras on its men. This is the first time in more than a decade that the premier road building defence organisation has bagged the most Shaurya Chakras, the country’s third highest non-combatant gallantry award, in a year and all of them have been awarded posthumously.
For the first time in its close to five decades long history, BRO’s dozer operator Zalim Singh would be conferred with Bar to the Shaurya Chakra, having won the same award twice over. On April 16 last year Zalim Singh was crushed under shooting boulders as he tried to clear a strategic road near village Theing in north
Two Shaurya Chakras have gone to men of the project Zaranj in Taliban infested
Another two BRO men, Assistant Executive Engineer Santosh Kumar Singh and driver Jaikrit Singh Rawat have won the award in Kashmir, working on the
Driver Surinder Pal was martyred in an attack by militants in Meghalaya on May 26 while supervisor M. Sundaram, deployed on the Kailash Mansarovar route, fell in a 60 meters deep valley of Kali river on Indo-Nepal border on 2nd July last year. Dozer Budhu Khan of project Vartak was hit by debris while clearing the Hapoli Sarli-Huri road on Feb. 22, 2008.
The BRO adds another feather in the cap as the Director General Border Roads, Lt. General Arun Kumar Nanda would be conferred with the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM) besides the ogranisation getting a Vishisht Seva Meda and Sena Medal each.