Although the BRO constructs and maintains roads in border areas and friendly neighboring countries, primarily serving strategic defence needs, it also works on infrastructure for other ministries. Since 2015, its administrative control was officially moved from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways back to the Ministry of Defence, recognizing its strategic military role.
Border Roads Organization is under the administrative control of the :
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