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Tripura-Chittagong sea port bridge to be funded by Centre
Biswendu Bhattacharjee | TNN | Apr 29, 2016, 11.18 AM IST
Picture: Design of Feni bridge to link Tripura with Chittagong sea port.
Agartala: The Centre has agreed to fund the construction of a bridge over River Feni in South Tripura on National Highway 44, connecting the state to Bangladesh, Tripura chief secretary Yashpal Singh said on Thursday. The bridge will connect Sabroom in Tripura to the Chittagong sea port in Ramgarh town of south Bangladesh.
The bridge has become important for Tripura and other northeastern states after Bangladesh allowed India to use the Chittagong sea port, only 70 kilometres from the southern town of Tripura.
Easy access to the sea port will open up the south Asian market for Tripura and it will be easier to ferry goods via waterways from other parts of India, bypassing the chicken neck of Siliguri and the high terrain of Assam and Meghalaya.
"The bridge will not only reduce travel time, risk and cost, but also integrate Tripura with the south Asian market. It will boost trade, commerce and investment in the state," Singh argued.
Singh said the proposal for the construction of the bridge had been pending for a long time. There were several phases of meetings with the Union ministry of DoNER and other related ministries over the past three years for funding the project. Recently, the ministry decided to fund the bridge construction, including the cost of land acquisition on both sides of India and Bangladesh and the construction of the approach road connecting the National Highways of both countries, he said.
The state government has finally begun the work, estimating an expenditure of Rs 70 crore from the state exchequer. In the meantime, due to cost escalation, the project estimate has risen to Rs 125 crore.
"We have started the work but it had been little slow because of the delay in arrangement of funds. Since the Centre agreed to provide the revised estimate, the work will start on a priority basis. The bridge should be functional in the next two years," Singh said.
He, however, pointed out that DoNER secretary Navin Verma, in his recent visit to the state, asserted that the Centre has decided to avoid the lengthy process of obtaining clearance of any project and the DoNER has devised a method for faster decision-making for any project in the northeast.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-be-funded-by-Centre/articleshow/52037052.cms
http://www.tripurainfoway.com/news-...inking-bangladeshi-ports-from-ne-tripura.html
Biswendu Bhattacharjee | TNN | Apr 29, 2016, 11.18 AM IST
Picture: Design of Feni bridge to link Tripura with Chittagong sea port.
Agartala: The Centre has agreed to fund the construction of a bridge over River Feni in South Tripura on National Highway 44, connecting the state to Bangladesh, Tripura chief secretary Yashpal Singh said on Thursday. The bridge will connect Sabroom in Tripura to the Chittagong sea port in Ramgarh town of south Bangladesh.
The bridge has become important for Tripura and other northeastern states after Bangladesh allowed India to use the Chittagong sea port, only 70 kilometres from the southern town of Tripura.
Easy access to the sea port will open up the south Asian market for Tripura and it will be easier to ferry goods via waterways from other parts of India, bypassing the chicken neck of Siliguri and the high terrain of Assam and Meghalaya.
"The bridge will not only reduce travel time, risk and cost, but also integrate Tripura with the south Asian market. It will boost trade, commerce and investment in the state," Singh argued.
Singh said the proposal for the construction of the bridge had been pending for a long time. There were several phases of meetings with the Union ministry of DoNER and other related ministries over the past three years for funding the project. Recently, the ministry decided to fund the bridge construction, including the cost of land acquisition on both sides of India and Bangladesh and the construction of the approach road connecting the National Highways of both countries, he said.
The state government has finally begun the work, estimating an expenditure of Rs 70 crore from the state exchequer. In the meantime, due to cost escalation, the project estimate has risen to Rs 125 crore.
"We have started the work but it had been little slow because of the delay in arrangement of funds. Since the Centre agreed to provide the revised estimate, the work will start on a priority basis. The bridge should be functional in the next two years," Singh said.
He, however, pointed out that DoNER secretary Navin Verma, in his recent visit to the state, asserted that the Centre has decided to avoid the lengthy process of obtaining clearance of any project and the DoNER has devised a method for faster decision-making for any project in the northeast.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-be-funded-by-Centre/articleshow/52037052.cms
http://www.tripurainfoway.com/news-...inking-bangladeshi-ports-from-ne-tripura.html
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