With only rail route shut, Tripura to get foodgrain via Bangladesh

[idune]

With only rail route shut, Tripura to get foodgrain via Bangladesh

Landlocked Tripura is set to get its foodgrain supply from mainland India through sea, land and river routes via Bangladesh.


Such a move was necessitated with the monsoon rain lashing the state will be likely a six-month ‘mega block’ of the only rail link between Guwahati and Agartala from October.


The Food Corporation of India (FCI) will send 10,000 tonne of foodgrain — rice and wheat — as a pilot from Andhra Pradesh to Tripura via Bangladesh. The transportation is likely to take two weeks and if the “experiment works well”, then the process will continue for eight months.


Saumitra Bandopadhyaya, special secretary and director of food and civil supplies in the Tripura government, said the Ministry of External Affairs has already worked out the formalities with the Bangladesh regime to carry out smooth movement of the first consignment of 10,000 metric tonne of foodgrain.


“Once this experiment works well, we will be able to move our requirement through Bangladesh till the Lumding-Badarpur broad guage conversion work is completed by March-April 2015,” Bandopadhyaya told The Indian Express over phone.


The consignment will move in two barges from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh by sea route and arrive at the Ashuganj river port on Meghna in Bangladesh, from where the foodgrain will be loaded on trucks bound to Agartala across the International Border check point at Akhaura, only 10 km from the Tripura capital.

With only rail route shut, Tripura to get foodgrain via Bangladesh | The Indian Express

 

[Indischer]

We extend our Thanks to the Government of Bangladesh for their gracious help. But when will India strengthen it's infrastructure in our Northeast?

 

[extra terrestrial]

Looks like Myanmar has rejected the Indian multi-modal shit, now the Indians have gone back to their own standard. .

 

[Contrarian]

We extend our Thanks to the Government of Bangladesh for their gracious help. But when will India strengthen it's infrastructure in our Northeast?

This move is for strengthening the infra in North East.

The railway line to Tripura is being converted to broad gage. It is during this time that the essential goods need to be transported to tripura using highways and bangladeshi routes.

Once done, India's capacity to transport goods to North East would increase.

Looks like Myanmar has rejected the Indian multi-modal shit, now the Indians have gone back to their own standard. .

I understand you are Bangladeshi and so things are hard for you to understand.

India and Myanmar are building the multi-modal transportation network. Infact the highway from Myanmar to NE India is currently in construction phase.Till that happens, the best alternative is to use Bangladeshi transportation network.

 

[Indischer]

This move is for strengthening the infra in North East.

The railway line to Tripura is being converted to broad gage. It is during this time that the essential goods need to be transported to tripura using highways and bangladeshi routes.

Once done, India's capacity to transport goods to North East would increase.


I understand you are Bangladeshi and so things are hard for you to understand.

India and Myanmar are building the multi-modal transportation network. Infact the highway from Myanmar to NE India is currently in construction phase.Till that happens, the best alternative is to use Bangladeshi transportation network.

The article mentions that the rail line had been stopped due to monsoons. So, the entire stretch wasn't broad gauge all these days?

 

[idune]

Looks like Myanmar has rejected the Indian multi-modal shit, now the Indians have gone back to their own standard. .

These indians were jumping up an down like you know what. Without Bangladesh giving them transit thousands will die in starvation. Yet they they still steal from Bangladesh, literately biting the hand that feeds them.

 

[Abotani]

Hope the entire cargo reaches,you never know what these starving bangladeshis will do to so much food passing through their country.

 

[Dem!god]

The article mentions that the rail line had been stopped due to monsoons. So, the entire stretch wasn't broad gauge all these days?

its meter gauge after dibrughar in assam....heck even this meter gauge was constructed in 2004 or 2005 ...
and mind u the line is for Assam and tripua only other states have no railway connectivity.... but the extension of work is ib progress...and this stopped work of conversation of meter gauge to broad gauge is in progress and is stopped due to monsoon...

 

[Contrarian]

The article mentions that the rail line had been stopped due to monsoons. So, the entire stretch wasn't broad gauge all these days?

No.
Broad gage conversions have been quite slow. IR has been slow because its practically bankrupt.

Its happening on the Tripura route now finally.

These indians were jumping up an down like you know what. Without Bangladesh giving them transit thousands will die in starvation. Yet they they still steal from Bangladesh, literately biting the hand that feeds them.

Boy, if India stops food export to Bangladesh, lakhs of people will die.

 

[Indischer]

its meter gauge after dibrughar in assam....heck even this meter gauge was constructed in 2004 or 2005 ...
and mind u the line is for Assam and tripua only other states have no railway connectivity.... but the extension of work is ib progress...and this stopped work of conversation of meter gauge to broad gauge is in progress and is stopped due to monsoon...

Pathetic! So our Govt has virtually done nothing there for nearly 60 odd years after independence. But I do remember Itanagar getting connected to the railway grid. Is there a separate line connecting Assam with Arunachal Pradesh?

No.
Broad gage conversions have been quite slow. IR has been slow because its practically bankrupt.

Its happening on the Tripura route now finally.


Boy, if India stops food export to Bangladesh, lakhs of people will die.

But why do it in the monsoons, when such efforts are much more difficult to accomplish? And coming back to the article, why can't India send that consignment through roads?

 

[extra terrestrial]

India and Myanmar are building the multi-modal transportation network. Infact the highway from Myanmar to NE India is currently in construction phase.Till that happens, the best alternative is to use Bangladeshi transportation network.

Well, there have been numerous posts by the Indians here that they don't need transit from Bangladesh anymore because of the multimodal transport project, but every now and then we see your government asking for transit from us.

BTW if I'm not wrong there's already an existing highway connecting North East and Myanmar, India-Myanmar friendship highway, even we have one such highway from Cox's Bazar through Myanmar. However, multimodal transport also incude the water transport, what's the progress on the sea port at Sittwe? any source?

Boy, if India stops food export to Bangladesh, lakhs of people will die.

We are actually food self sufficient country.

http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/old/index.php?ref=MjBfMDhfMDdfMTNfMV85Ml8xNzkxNjg=

 

[Contrarian]

Well, there have been numerous posts by the Indians here that they don't need transit from Bangladesh anymore because of the multimodal transport project, but every now and then we see your government asking for transit from us.

BTW if I'm not wrong there's already an existing highway connecting North East and Myanmar, India-Myanmar friendship highway,

Its not built yet.
The current road is not the friendship highway, and it is little more than a dirt road once away from major places.
As of now, the friendship highway is under construction in Myanmar side and under planning stage in Indian(NE) side.

However, multimodal transport also incude the water transport, what's the progress on the sea port at Sittwe? any source?

Yes. It includes the port at Sittwe and a highway running North from Sittwe and then entering India from NE India. In the current pace, the entire project should take a decade to complete.

We are actually self sufficient on food.

No, you are not yet.

 

[extra terrestrial]

Yes. It includes the port at Sittwe and a highway running North from Sittwe and then entering India from NE India. In the current pace, the entire project should take a decade to complete.

Any news about its progress? any sources?

No, you are not yet.

See the link.

 

[Contrarian]

But why do it in the monsoons, when such efforts are much more difficult to accomplish? And coming back to the article, why can't India send that consignment through roads?

Is that a real question? Why is it that sewers start getting de-clogged right before rains start in the cities? The same reason.

And we can send the consignment through roads. The only problem there is that
1. the amount carted will be in small quantities since the roads in North East are pathetic. We dont have good highways in North East. So the entire process will take much longer.
2. Since the highways are bad, it will cost multiple times more
3. The food supplies will also get relatively more damaged because of the additional time on the roads.


On the other hand, we can use Bangladeshi transportation networks to transfer the food supplies at a
1.much cheaper cost because river transportation is far cheaper than road transport.
2. much less time again because river transport is faster in that region
3. Goods can be transferred in bulk.

So it makes sense to use the least cost transportation network. It does not mean we can not send it by Indian routes, it just means we are being sensible.
Though this does not mean that we should not upgrade transportation links to NE. The highway upgradation program is crucial.

 

[Indischer]

Is that a real question? Why is it that sewers start getting de-clogged right before rains start in the cities? The same reason.

And we can send the consignment through roads. The only problem there is that
1. the amount carted will be in small quantities since the roads in North East are pathetic. We dont have good highways in North East. So the entire process will take much longer.
2. Since the highways are bad, it will cost multiple times more
3. The food supplies will also get relatively more damaged because of the additional time on the roads.


On the other hand, we can use Bangladeshi transportation networks to transfer the food supplies at a
1.much cheaper cost because river transportation is far cheaper than road transport.
2. much less time again because river transport is faster in that region
3. Goods can be transferred in bulk.

So it makes sense to use the least cost transportation network. It does not mean we can not send it by Indian routes, it just means we are being sensible.
Though this does not mean that we should not upgrade transportation links to NE. The highway upgradation program is crucial.

Couldn't get what you were implying in the first line.