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Sabroom : Feni Bridge a future corridor to connect Chittagong Port and ASEAN Countries with NE India
TIWN April 12, 2017
Sabroom : Feni Bridge a future corridor to connect Chittagong Port and ASEAN Countries with NE India
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New Delhi/Agartala, April 12 (TIWN): Union Minister of Highways, surface Transport and Shipping informed to Three MPs of Tripura in his office chamber at Transport Bhawan New Delhi worth Rs. 100 Crores Plus has been awarded to selected agency and the works will commence at an earliest for proposed Bridge over river Feni.

 Feni Bridge construction to communicate Tripura with Bangladesh will begin from January 2017. Already works of land acquisition started. According to sources the works of land acquisition for construction of approach road has started with full swing and the work will completed soon. The 1200 Meter road will be constructed from Feni River by GOI.

 The length of the bridge will be 412 Meter and width of it will be 15 Meter. Long pending demand of People of Sabroom comes to end after development in bridge construction continues.

Earlier Construction of bridge over river Feni is being taken up by Ministry of Road Transport & Highways. This issue of coordination with Bangladesh for the construction of the bridge was raised in the 10th meeting of the Joint Working Group on Trade with Bangladesh, which was held on 8th-9th June 2016 at New Delhi. The Bangladesh side was requested to undertake construction of corresponding road link in its territory up to the India- Bangladesh border. The issue is being followed up with the Bangladesh side.

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