Mizoram’s Rajya Sabha member K. Vanlalvena said that Railway Ministry is planning to extend the underconstruction Bairabi-Sairang railway line up to the India-Myanmar border.
The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is laying the new broad-gauge line between Bairabi near Assam’s Hailakandi district and Sairang, near Aizawl, at a cost of over Rs 8,215 crore.
Vanlalvena inspected the Sairang railway station site said that the Railway ministry is planning to extend the railway line up to Zochachhuah, a village on the India-Myanmar border.
“Preliminary surveys are now being done to extend the railway line up to the Myanmar border. It would significantly benefit Mizoram once it’s operationalised. Government’s plan to further extend the railway network beyond Sairang, cutting across southern Mizoram to Zochachhuah near the Myanmar border, potentially opening doors for enhanced cross-border trade and regional integration,” the Rajya Sabha member said.
This new line project is divided into four sections — Bairabi-Hortoki, Hortoki-Kawnpui, Kawnpui-Mualkhang and Mualkhang-Sairang.
The Bairabi-Hortoki section was commissioned in July last year.The NFR is making all efforts to fulfil its commitment to commission the project at the earliest.
NFR’s Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) Kapinjal Kishore Sharma said that the Bairabi-Sairang new railway line project connecting Aizawl in Mizoram with the rest of the country is at an advanced completion stage.