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New Delhi, Nov 20
India today unveiled plans to develop 7,603 kms of road links to reach every nook and corner of the North East with the Government saying it was not not to rival, but to strengthen links with country's giant neighbour China.
"We are planning to reach every place in this strategic region," Minister of State for Defence M Pallam Raju told reporters after a full board meeting of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO).
The North East comprises Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.
China recently inaugurated, what it claimed, was the world's highest rail link connecting the Chinese mainland with Tibetan capital of Lhasa and has built multi-laned highways right upto the Sino-Indian border.
"It is not not in response to China rapidly building rail and road infrastructure across the Himalayan heights in Tibet, but to strengthen ties with our neighbour," the Minister said.
"The special accelerated road development would involve laying down of a total road link of upto 7,603 km and would be completed in the next six years at an estimated cost of a whopping Rs 12,123 crores," he said.
It is not not only road links to Sino-India border, but the new plan envisages networking road connectivity to country's other neighbours Bhutan and Myanmar as well within seven naxal-affected states in the heartland and in Jammu and Kashmir
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