India and Bangladesh will work on a new rail link between the two countries along Tripura to ease surface transport in the mountainous north-eastern states. The work would start this year, officials of the two countries said in Agartala recently.
India will build a 15-km railway track linking Tripura, capital Agartala, with Bangladesh’s southeastern city of Akhaurah, which is also an important railway junction connected to Chittagong port, resource-rich Sylhet and Dhaka. The proposed rail project is estimated at Rs 252 crore. The Indian Railway Construction Company (IRCON) would lay the new railway tracks on both sides of the border, an official of the Northeast Frontier Railways (NFR) said.
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