Guwahati: One more northeastern state capital would be connected by railway by next year and three of the remaining four between 2024 and 2026, a railway official said.
Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) General Manager Anshul Gupta said that of the ongoing new railway projects – the 45-km-long Sivok-Rangpo (close to Gangtok) in Sikkim would be completed next year while the 111-km-long Jiribam-Imphal in Manipur and 52-km-long Bairabi-Sairang (in Aizawl district) in Mizoram would be commissioned in 2024, and the 83-km-long Dimapur-Zubza (near Kohima) in Nagaland would be completed in 2026.
“Meghalaya’s commercial town Byrnihat (73 km from Shillong) would be linked by the railway line when the works of the under construction new 22-km-long railway project would be completed in March next year,” Gupta told the media in a virtual talk.Assam’s main city of Guwahati (adjoining capital Dispur), Tripura capital Agartala, and Arunachal Pradesh’s Naharlagun (adjacent to capital city Itanagar) are already connected on railway networks.
Gupta also said that the railways has been focusing about the international railway connectivity, particularly with Nepal, Myanmar and Bangladesh. AGENCIES