The Union government is trying to tie up Japanese funds for road projects in the North-East that had difficulty in attracting private sector investment in the past, sources in the government said.
According to the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, these projects include highway stretches in states such as Mizoram, Nagaland, Assam and Meghalaya – in some cases they lie close to the Myanmar and Bangladesh border – as well as bridge projects over the Brahmaputra in Assam.
The ministry will seek assistance from the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Japan’s official financial assistance arm, for the projects.
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