New Delhi: The recent Cabinet clearance for the Rs 536-crore Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit-cum-Transport Project giving other parts of India access to Mizoram and to other North-East States as well as an outlet for the North-East States to the sea was given an impetus on April 2, with the signing of agreement with Myanmar Government. Further, it agrees another alternative route to counter Bangladesh''s continued reluctance in providing India transit rights via its territory to the North-East.
An agreement to start the Kaladan multi-modal transit-cum-transport project was signed by the representatives of the Ministry of External Affairs of India and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the Government of Myanmar in the presence of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and the visiting Senior General, Mr Maunge Aye, of Myanmar on April 2. The project will connect Kolkata-to-Sittwe-to-Kaleutuwa-to-Myanmar Border (in Mizroam). Besides development of 225-km waterway, the project envisages construction of two roads viz., NHI54 to Border of 117 km and Kaleutwa to Boaorder of 52 km.
An agreement to start the Kaladan multi-modal transit-cum-transport project was signed by the representatives of the Ministry of External Affairs of India and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the Government of Myanmar in the presence of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and the visiting Senior General, Mr Maunge Aye, of Myanmar on April 2. The project will connect Kolkata-to-Sittwe-to-Kaleutuwa-to-Myanmar Border (in Mizroam). Besides development of 225-km waterway, the project envisages construction of two roads viz., NHI54 to Border of 117 km and Kaleutwa to Boaorder of 52 km.
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