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  • Question

  • Border Roads Organisation for hilly regions, was formed in


  • Options
  • A. 1947
  • B. 1954
  • C. 1958
  • D. 1960
  • E. 1962

  • Correct Answer
  • 1960 

    Explanation
    The Border Roads Organization (BRO) was conceived and raised in the year 1960 by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the great visionary and the first Prime Ministry of India. This was done with the aim of coordinating the speedy development of network of roads in the North and the North Eastern border regions of the country. BRO is regarded as a symbol of nation-building, national integration and an inseparable component in maintaining the security and integrity of the country.

    • Highway Engineering problems

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    • 1. The type of transition curves generally provided on hill roads, is

    • Options
    • A. circular
    • B. cubic parabola
    • C. Lemniscate
    • D. spiral.
      • Discuss
    • 2. Pick up the correct statement from the following:

    • Options
    • A. Safety fences are provided on either side of a roadway if embankments are in excess of 6 metres
    • B. Safety fences are provided on outside of the curves of radii less than 750 m if the embankments are between 3 metres and 6 metres
    • C. Guard stones are provided at 2.5 metres intervals if embankments are between 1.6 metres to 3 metres
    • D. All the above.
      • Discuss
    • 3. The weaving length of a roadway is the distance

    • Options
    • A. between the channelising islands
    • B. equal to half circumference
    • C. equal to total width of adjoining radial roads
    • D. equal to diameter of rotary.
      • Discuss
    • 4. Road makers along roads from the edge of a kerb should not be less than

    • Options
    • A. 40 cm
    • B. 45 cm
    • C. 50 cm
    • D. 55 cm
    • E. 60 cm
      • Discuss
    • 5. Increase in traffic volume, due to increase in transport vehicles, is known as

    • Options
    • A. development traffic
    • B. normal traffic growth
    • C. generated traffic growth
    • D. current traffic
    • E. none of these.
      • Discuss
    • 6. The minimum ratio of the radii of two circular curves of a compound curve, is kept

    • Options
    • A. 1.25
    • B. 1.5
    • C. 1.75
    • D. 2.0
      • Discuss
    • 7. The efficiency of the brakes of a vehicle depends upon

    • Options
    • A. condition of road surface
    • B. condition of the tyres
    • C. presence of the show moisture
    • D. all the above.
      • Discuss
    • 8. If A is the projected area of a vehicle in square metres, V is speed of the vehicles in kilometres per hour and C is a constant, then the wind resistance R to the moving vehicles, is given by

    • Options
    • A. R = CAV
    • B. R = CAV2
    • C. R = CAV3
    • D.
    • E. R = C2AV
      • Discuss
    • 9. If cross slope of a country is 10% to 25%, the terrain is classified as

    • Options
    • A. rolling
    • B. mountainous
    • C. steep
    • D. plain.
      • Discuss
    • 10. A single lane carriage way whenever changes to two-lane carriage way, is affected through a taper of

    • Options
    • A. 1 in 10
    • B. 1 in 15
    • C. 1 in 20
    • D. 1 in 15 to 1 in 20
      • Discuss

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