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Union furniture has approved operation of a 4-lane access-controlled greenfield corridor from Gohpur (NH-15) to Numaligarh (NH-715), including a 15.79-km road-cum-rail underwater passageway nether the Brahmaputra, astatine a full superior outgo of Rs 18,662 crore, the authorities said.The full task magnitude volition beryllium astir 33.7 km, and volition beryllium implemented connected an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) mode.The task is expected to beryllium India’s archetypal underwater road-cum-rail passageway and the world’s second, and is aimed astatine strengthening connectivity crossed Assam and the broader Northeast region.
Currently, question betwixt Numaligarh and Gohpur via the existing Kaliabhomora span way is astir 240 km and takes astir six hours, passing done areas including Kaziranga National Park and Biswanath Town.The caller greenfield corridor with the passageway is aimed astatine importantly improving connectivity, reducing logistics costs and improving freight question ratio crossed Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and different northeastern states.Multimodal integration and web connectivityThe corridor volition integrate with 2 large nationalist highways — NH-15 and NH-715 — and 2 railway sections:
- Rangia–Mukongselek railway conception (Gohpur side)
- Furkating–Mariani loop enactment (Numaligarh side)
The task volition besides heighten multimodal connectivity by linking:
- 11 economical nodes
- 3 societal nodes
- 2 tourer nodes
- 8 logistics nodes
It volition besides amended entree to 4 large railway stations, 2 airports and 2 inland waterway terminals, enabling faster question of goods and passengers.
Strategic and economical impactThe authorities said the task volition play a cardinal relation successful strategical connectivity, determination economical maturation and commercialized enlargement portion strengthening links betwixt large economical centres.The task is expected to make astir 80 lakh person-days of nonstop and indirect employment, supporting economical enactment and improvement successful surrounding regions.The passageway constituent volition include-- Twin conduit TBM passageway with obstruction proviso successful 1 conduit — 15.79 km, Road cut-and-cover conception (1.26 km) and Rail cut-and-cover conception (4 km). The task volition link cardinal economical zones, concern areas, societal districts, tourer hubs including Kaziranga National Park, and large municipality centres including Numaligarh, Tezpur, Gohpur, Dibrugarh and Itanagar.
