Restoring Lifeline On Mountains - How BRO Is Battling Odds To Reopen Mughal Road

It's an awe-inspiring display of powerful snow blowers clearing heavy snow on the Mughal road in Jammu and Kashmir. For weeks, the road lay cut off from the world. The machines are not just removing snow but restoring life and livelihood that remains buried under the mounds of snow and avalanches. For locals, a snow clearance operation on the Mughal Road is unusual at this time of winter. Normally, these operations do not begin until March or April. However, since maintenance was handed over to the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), residents are hopeful they may be able to travel and trade much earlier than usual. From Shopian district in the north of Pirpajal and Bafliaz in Poonch in the south, it is just a three-hour drive via the Mughal Road. But as the road remains closed during winters, a few hours' travel turns into a two-day journey via Jammu