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| Sabroom - Chittagong distance |
I was planning for a north-east trip on last
May for 17 days. Due to some personal reasons I had to cancel that journey in
last moment. One problem I faced while planning was - so many places to visit but
limited transportation facilities. Even if I want, I wouldn’t be able to visit
all North Eastern States due to lack of quick links between them. It is indeed
hard to build railway tracks and 4/6/8 lane roads through those mountain
ranges.
What make me smile now is the news that, rail
track to Agartala became broad-gauge and new train Tripura Sundari express
started running between Tripura and New Delhi. A regular train service between
Agartala and Kolkata will start on next month.
Government also started working on a direct
link between Agartala and Akhoura (Bangladesh), which will allow passengers and
commodities to travel seamless across the border.
Tripura is located very close to Bay of
Bengal in maps; but without any direct links, as it is separated by Bangladesh
territory. Now a new rail track will be extended to Sabroom (the southernmost
city in Tripura). The best part is, this town is just 60km from Chittagong
Seaport. This will make the movement of goods from rest of India to North East
very easy. For e.g. from Chennai, Visag, Paradip, Kolkata etc to Chittagong and
then from there to other north-eastern states of India through rail and road.
Next time when I go there an itinerary
through Tripura's rail network is definitely in the plan.
Sajeev
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