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| In Uttarakhand, the end of the road |
| In Uttarakhand, the end of the road is everywhere. Enter these men
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| INDIA
, 4-July-2013
5:9:36 AM |
| Thirteen kilometres downhill from Badrinath, deep in the thick forests of Lambagarh, the roar of the surging Alaknanda river is only disturbed by the continuous whine of bulldozers. (Watch)
Away from the media glare, unseen by pilgrims for whom they toil, a dozen men from the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) are quietly labouring away on one of the most critical infrastructure needs in flood-hit Uttarakhand - repairing old road and building new ones. (See pics)
Junior engineer Ashok Kumar and his team were given the task to restore a 30-km stretch of the road between Mana - the last village 25 km before the Indo-Tibetan border - and Govindghat. And just three km from Mana is Badrinath, where thousands of pilgrims and tourists were stranded.
"There were 20 major and minor landslides which we removed," Mr Kumar, 43, explains in his soft voice, adjusting his blue jacket as it begins to drizzle.
"And then we came across this massive breach," Mr Kumar says, his outstretched hand taking a long semi-circular tour, pointing at the various places where the roads were absent. "Five and a half kilometre of the road has simply been swallowed by the river or has collapsed under the weight of landslides."
A native of Himachal Pradesh, Mr Kumar pauses for a second for us to fathom the enormity of the situation. And there was no reason to disappoint him.
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