AGARTALA, July 3 (TIWN): Construction work for River Feni over bridge is likely to get started by December, says PWD Chief Engineer Dipak PKumar Das.

Talking to TIWN correspondent, PWD chief Engineer Dipak Kumar Das said that the construction of the River Feni over bridge likely to get start from December. He further said that the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the bridge is submitted to (Ministry of road and Transport highway MORTH) for the consideration of the technical committee of the MORTH.

He further said that once the DPR is accepted the state will call tender for the construction of the bridge which is ambitious project in Tripura.

The 150-metre (490 feet) road bridge over the Feni River will connect the sabroom border town (135 km south of Agartala) of southern Tripura with Ramgarh town in Bangladesh.

The construction of bridge over River Feni would boost the connectivity between two countries, India and Bangladesh.

The Tripura government has been asking the central government to take all possible steps to ensure access to Bangladeshi ports to ferry men and material to and fro mountainous north-eastern states and other parts of India via Bangladesh.

The Left Front government had asked Modi to persuade Bangladesh to provide access to its water and land routes to transport men and goods for India's north-eastern states when the prime minister visited Tripura.

Access to the Chittagong port and Ashuganj river port in Bangladesh are crucial for the northeastern states to ferry men and materials.

India and Bangladesh have already agreed to allow cargo movement through Chittagong sea port. The proposed bridge will connect southern Tripura border at Sabroom, just 72 km off Chittagong port, with Ramgarh town in Bangladesh. The four-lane bridge will also have related infrastructure like a four-lane approach road.

Proposed Bridge over river Feni between Tripura and Chittagong is delaying, plan was to make South Tripura to become trading hub of two countries one day. But till today no such construction work has taken up. In a first step towards making Tripura the gateway of NE India and initiated with one small step it'll surely add special value in the cultural and exchange efforts between Tripura and Bangladesh (especially Chittagong). The proposed bridge will connect Southern Tripura's border town Sabroom, 135 km south of Agartala, with the Bangladeshi border town Ramgarh, 300 km Northest of Dhaka.

The construction of bridge over River Feni would boost the connectivity between two countries, India and Bangladesh.