Addressing the nation from the walls of Red Fort on India’s 75th Independence Day Sunday, PM Narendra Modi announced that the capitals of India’s northeastern states will soon be connected by rail.
“Today, we are in the process of writing a new history as far as connectivity to the northeast is concerned. This connectivity is both between hearts and infrastructure. Very soon the job of connecting the capital cities of the northeastern states by rail will be completed,” Modi said. The govt has set 2024 as the deadline for the same. Currently, all northeastern states excluding Sikkim are connected through rail. While capitals of Assam, Tripura, and Arunachal Pradesh are already connected, work to extend similar connectivity in Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Meghalaya are underway.
Let us tell you that as of April this year, 20 projects with an expenditure of Rs 74,485 crore covering 2,011 km are in various stages of completion in NER. These projects include 14 New Line Projects covering a length of 1,181 km at a cost of Rs 56,553 crore, including coverage of 253 km that has been commissioned at a cost of Rs 23,994 crore. Of the 20 commissioned projects, six are Doubling Projects 830 km long, amounting to Rs17,932 crore out of which a length of 68 km has been commissioned and an expenditure of Rs 2,880 crore has been incurred till March this year.
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