Road Link of NE to Myanmar
Kaladan deal awaits Myanmar seal:
Silchar, Dec. 26: India is eagerly waiting for Myanmar’s foreign minister U Nyan Win’s New Year visit to Delhi for finalising the 00-million dollar Kaladan multi-model link project.
The project envisages building of roads and waterway links to ensure the landlocked states’ easy accessibility to the Bay of Bengal through Myanmar.
The detailed report of the infrastructure development project was discussed at a meeting at the Prime Minister’s office in January this year.
The project had already been granted financial approval by New Delhi and Yangon, said senior officials of the border trade department of the Mizoram government in Aizawl.
Sources pointed out that the alternative road, river and sea access via Myanmar’s southwestern flank had been extensively surveyed over the past six years by engineers of the two countries. The cabinet is likely to give a final nod to augmentation of the project once Win lands in India.
Dhaka’s vacillation on providing transit facilities to Indian goods through Chittagong port has prodded the Centre to look for an alternative route to the sea from the Northeast.
An agreement for development of roads and the port on the Kaladan river for transhipment of goods up to Sittwe port in Rakhine state of Myanmar was reached by delegations of the two countries when petroleum minister Murli Deora called on senior leaders of the junta in Yangon three months back.
Sittwe port in Myanmar is nearly 12 hours from the sea port of Haldia near Calcutta.
As the Kaladan river also flows through Mizoram, transhipment of goods from Mizoram, particularly the state’s bamboo products and fruits to Calcutta and nearby towns, will be a lot easier.
For that, the roads stretching from Paletwa and Tiddim in Chin state of Myanmar close to Mizoram have to be developed as highways by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), a wing of the Union ministry of roads transport and highways.
That requires signing of a separate agreement between the BRO and the junta after the government of the two countries gave the go-ahead to the broad modalities of the project.
Posted On: The Telegraph
Silchar, Dec. 26: India is eagerly waiting for Myanmar’s foreign minister U Nyan Win’s New Year visit to Delhi for finalising the 00-million dollar Kaladan multi-model link project.
The project envisages building of roads and waterway links to ensure the landlocked states’ easy accessibility to the Bay of Bengal through Myanmar.
The detailed report of the infrastructure development project was discussed at a meeting at the Prime Minister’s office in January this year.
The project had already been granted financial approval by New Delhi and Yangon, said senior officials of the border trade department of the Mizoram government in Aizawl.
Sources pointed out that the alternative road, river and sea access via Myanmar’s southwestern flank had been extensively surveyed over the past six years by engineers of the two countries. The cabinet is likely to give a final nod to augmentation of the project once Win lands in India.
Dhaka’s vacillation on providing transit facilities to Indian goods through Chittagong port has prodded the Centre to look for an alternative route to the sea from the Northeast.
An agreement for development of roads and the port on the Kaladan river for transhipment of goods up to Sittwe port in Rakhine state of Myanmar was reached by delegations of the two countries when petroleum minister Murli Deora called on senior leaders of the junta in Yangon three months back.
Sittwe port in Myanmar is nearly 12 hours from the sea port of Haldia near Calcutta.
As the Kaladan river also flows through Mizoram, transhipment of goods from Mizoram, particularly the state’s bamboo products and fruits to Calcutta and nearby towns, will be a lot easier.
For that, the roads stretching from Paletwa and Tiddim in Chin state of Myanmar close to Mizoram have to be developed as highways by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), a wing of the Union ministry of roads transport and highways.
That requires signing of a separate agreement between the BRO and the junta after the government of the two countries gave the go-ahead to the broad modalities of the project.
Posted On: The Telegraph