India has been carrying out a lot of construction activities at the China border in the last three years, Border Roads Or[1]ganisation (BRO) Direc[1]tor General Lt General Rajeev Chaudhry said on Sunday. The DG was in Chandi[1]garh to inspect the ongoing construction work of an air dispatch unit of the BRO, touted to be the world’s largest 3D concrete printed campus. Chaudhry said the government of India is fully supporting the BRO for carrying out infrastructure development projects by way of increasing the bud[1]get and new technology. The government of India has “increased our budget by 100 per cent in the last two years”, he added. When asked if China is carrying out big infrastruc[1]ture development near the border areas of India, the DG said that a lot of con[1]struction activities have been being carried out by the BRO and other agen[1]cies at the China border in the last three years. The DG said that around 300 BRO projects worth Rs 8,000 crore were com[1]pleted during the last few years. “In the last three years, we set up 295 road projects, bridges, tunnels and airfields which were dedicated to the nation,” Chaudhry said. “In four months, our 60 more projects will be ready and the pace of our work has increased,” he added. The DG said that the BRO was using steel slag — a by-product of steel — and plastic in the con[1]struction of roads. “Today, the BRO’s pace of work is quite fast and the government has com[1]plete support in it, be it the budget, machines, new technology and simplifica[1]tion of procedures. You can be rest assured that we will leave China behind in the next four to five years,” he added.