Assam gets 109–km four-lane road under Bharatmala

The Union road transport ministry has approved a new four-lane road from Cachar's Ramnagar to Churaibari in Karimganj district in south Assam under the Bharatmala Pariyojana. The 109-km alignment of the road will connect Ramnagar with Churaibari via Kalinagar, Panchgram, Katigorah and Malua among others. The National Highway Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) has been assigned for the project and it in turn has also presented a blueprint of the highway. A large number of bypass roads will also be constructed as part of its mega project. Special emphasis will be given on providing connectivity to the border and rural areas of the state. The project will interconnect 550 district headquarters through a minimum 4-lane highway by raising the number of corridors to 50 and move 80% freight traffic to national highways by interconnecting 24 logistics parks, 66 inter-corridors out of a total of 8,000 km, 116 feeder routes and 7 northeast multi-modal waterway ports. As part of the Ramnagar-Churaibari road project, three bridges — two over the Barak River and one over Katakhal — will be constructed. Of the two bridges over the Barak, one will have a distance of about 1200 metres, while the other one will be around 500 metres in length. Of the total length, 32 km of the road will pass through Cachar and 72 km through Karimganj, 4 km of the road will make its way through the Hailakandi district and that the project will be implemented with a visionary approach to develop connectivity in the rural parts of the state. All the state capitals in the northeast and seven multi-modal waterways will be connected with the corridor to inject a boost to the economic development in the region.