Project Dantak Project DANTAK completes 60 years in Bhutan. | UPSC PIB NEWS
Project Dantak
Project DANTAK completes 60 years in Bhutan.
Dantak is a BRO project that was initiated in 1961.
It is headquartered at Simtokha, near Thimphu under a Chief Engineer.
Project DANTAK has constructed, under GOI funding, over 1500 km of roads through very difficult mountainous terrain in Bhutan.
Identifying the utmost importance of connectivity in the socio-economic development and growth of Bhutan, DANTAK was mandated with constructing motorable roads in the Himalayan kingdom.
Project Dantak has built all the major highways such as the East-West highway (548 km) and Thimphu-Phuentsholing highway (181 km), airfields at Paro and Yangphula and airport terminal at Paro, a number of helipads, the Indo- Bhutan microwave link, Bhutan Broadcasting Station, India House Complex, Chhukha Hydroelectric Housing Complex, Power sub-stations, river training works, and several important buildings (including SAARC Convention Centre).
The medical and educational facilities established by DANTAK in far flung areas were often the first in those locations.
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