New North-East link to Kolkata will be via sea, giving Bangladesh a miss

New North-East link to Kolkata will be via sea, giving Bangladesh a miss

The 166.8-km four-lane highway along NH-6 from Mawlyngkhung near Shillong to Panchgram near Silchar is the first high-speed corridor project in the North-East.

New North-East link to Kolkata will be via sea, giving Bangladesh a miss - Maritime Gateway

The proposed highway from Shillong in Meghalaya to Silchar in Assamwill become an extension of a key multi-modal transport project in Myanmar, leading to an alternative link via sea between the North-East states and Kolkata. The project is a response to Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus’s remark in Beijing this March that North-East India is “landlocked” and Dhaka is the only guardian of the ocean for all this region. Th…