The Border Roads Organisation’s (BRO) Project Vijayak in Kargil, Ladakh, has successfully utilised the indigenous REJUPAVE road construction technology. Developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Central Road Research Institute (CSIR-CRRI) under the Ministry of Science and Technology, REJUPAVE was used to construct high-altitude bituminous roads in low and sub-zero temperatures on the Drass-Umbala-Sankoo Road in Drass, the world’s second coldest inhabited place.
Previously, this technology was used by BRO to build sections at the world’s highest Sela road tunnel and the LGG-Damteng-Yangste (LDY) road section near Arunachal Pradesh’s China border at 18,000 feet. Now, it has been successfully tested at 13,000 feet on the Drass-Umbala-Sankoo Road. M/s Verma Industries, the technology partner of CSIR-CRRI, supplied REJUPAVE for this trial.