Govt plans to widen roads in NE states to improve connectivity with B'desh, Myanmar

To improve connectivity with neighbouring Bangladesh and Myanmar, the government will widen roads in the North-East region of the country, Parliament was informed today.

With the improvement in road infrastructure, the socio-economic condition of the people living in the region is also expected to get better, Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Mansukh L Mandaviya said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.

To a question whether the government has plans of road-widening in the north-eastern states of Meghalaya, Manipur and and Mizoram to improve connectivity with Bangladesh and Mayanmar, he replied in affirmative.

"Yes," he said adding that "improvement in the socio-economic condition of people in the region is expected from the panned improvement of these roads."