The arduous Amarnath yatra routes, sometimes going up to an altitude of 13,000 feet through the picturesque tourist spots of Pahalgam and Sonamarg, will be widened with railings this year by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO).
“We are deploying our machines and teams in places where we are expecting a landslide. The Centre has given us permission to improve border roads,” Lt. Gen. Rajeev Chaudhry, Director-General of the BRO, said.
For the first time, the BRO will be maintaining the Amarnath twin tracks. Earlier, the J&K government’s Public Works Department was maintaining the Baltal shrine track in Ganderbal district and the Pahalgam Development Authority (PDA) was maintaining the Pahalgam shrine route in Anantnag district. It was in September last year that the Amarnath yatra tracks were handed over to the BRO for both maintenance and upgradation.
