Deadline: six years for 19.282 km project
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved construction of four-lane bridge to be built with loan assistance from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) at a capital cost of Rs.4,997.04 crore.
The 19.282 km bridge includes approaches over river Brahmaputra between Dhubri on North Bank and Phulbari on South Bank on NH-127 B in the State of Assam/Meghalaya.
To be completed in six years, the project is under ‘North-East Road Network Connectivity Project Phase-03’ scheme.
The approval was given on 28 Feb 2019.
The bridge will reduce distance from 205.3 km to only 19.282 km between Dhubri in Assam and Phulbari in Meghalaya.
This alignment will further augment the transport network for the region by providing the shortest link between the western regions of Meghalaya as well as Barak valley region of Assam and southern states in NE namely Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura and the rest of the country, including the ports of Kolkata. fiinews.com
