Indian Railways to link all north eastern state capitals by March 2022

The Indian Railways is all set to link all the north eastern state capital by connecting Sikkim’s capital city, Gangtok with other north eastern states by March 2022. Work on new broad gauge lines has been taken up to connect the other state capitals — Meghalaya (Shillong), Manipur (Imphal), Nagaland (Kohima), Mizoram (Aizawl)- which is expected to be completed by 2020. “We have already completed 45 per cent of the work in projects of the northeast. We hope to bring Sikkim on the national railways” map by March 2022,” a senior official quoted to PTI.

Capitals cities of Assam, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh have already been connected by the broad gauge rail network.