Aizawl, Oct 21: Within the next nine months, Mizoram’s Aizawl will be the fourth capital city in the Northeast to come under railway link.

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is laying the new 51.38 km Broad Gauge track up to Sairang.

The Rs 8,213.72 crore Bairabi-Sairang railway project is now in advanced stage.

Mizoram chief minister Lalduhoma, informed that the 51.38 km new line between Bhairabi (near Assam’s Hailakandi District) and Sairang (near Aizawl) expected to be completed by July next year.

Assam’s main city of Guwahati (adjoining capital Dispur), Tripura’s capital Agartala, and Arunachal Pradesh’s Naharlagun (adjacent to capital city Itanagar) are already on the railway network since many years.

The Bairabi and Sairang railway project is divided into four sections — Bairabi-Hortoki, Hortoki-Kawnpui, Kawnpui-Mualkhang, and Mualkhang-Sairang.

NFR’s Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) Kapinjal Kishore Sharma said that the whole Bairabi-Sairang project, once completed, would be a game-changer venture in terms of communication and commerce for the people of Mizoram.

The new railway line from Bairabi to Sairang was approved by the Union government in 2008-2009 at an initial cost of Rs 2,384.34 crore as a national project.

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