NFR expedites Dharmanagar-Belonia rail line in Tripura

To start work on the Dharmanagar-North Tripura- Belonia rail line, the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has completed the primary survey work and feasibility study for an alternative railway track construction to connect Dharmanagar of North Tripura with Belonia of South Tripura via Agartala and western bordering town Sonamura. Tripura CM, Biplab Kumar Deb, informed that the process of preparing the final report for the alternative railway link would be submitted shortly and that the Final Location Survey (FLS) would be taken up by NFR after getting approval of the Railway Board.

The railway connectivity of Tripura got a fillip soon after the current government came to power. Besides, gauge conversion, which had been lying pending for over 50 years, was carried out within six months and now all major Indian cities including New Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad got railway connectivity with the northeastern region. The CM underlined an initiative for rail connectivity between Feni (Bangladesh) and Belonia (Tripura), as part of the restoration of pre-independent connectivity in the region. Apart from that, Agartala – Akhaura (Bangladesh) rail link project has been going on in full swing and is expected to be completed in the next few months with a Rail Yard at Nischintapur at Tripura border where an Integrated Check Post (ICP) is being set up for handling goods and passenger traffic between India and Bangladesh. A bridge over the River Feni (Maître Setu) is on the verge of completion to get port connectivity at Chittagong in Bangladesh.

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NFR expedites Dharmanagar-Belonia rail line in Tripura

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