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India connected Monday (September 29, 2025) announced 2 caller obstruction links totaling 89-km betwixt India and Bhutan, i.e. Kokrajhar-Gelephu (Assam) and Banarhat-Samtse (West Bengal), astatine a outgo of ₹4,033 crore.
These 2 projects are portion of the archetypal acceptable of obstruction connectivity projects betwixt India and Bhutan, Foreign Secretary, Vikram Misri, announced astatine a property conference. The MoU for these projects was signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sojourn to Bhutan past twelvemonth and a ceremonial statement volition beryllium signed aboriginal connected September 29 connected the juncture of Bhutanese Foreign Secretary to New Delhi.
“India is the largest trading spouse of Bhutan. Most of the EXIM commercialized of Bhutan is done Indian ports, therefore, it becomes precise important to person seamless obstruction connectivity for the Bhutanese system to grow, and for the Bhutanese radical to person amended entree to the planetary network,” Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said.
The Minister said that the 89-km obstruction links volition supply Bhutan entree to 1,50,000 kms of Indian railway network. While the Kokrajhar-Gelephu obstruction nexus volition beryllium developed implicit the adjacent 4 years, Banarhat-Samtse volition beryllium constructed implicit a play of 3 years.
The erstwhile has six stations, 2 viaducts, 29 large bridges, 65 insignificant bridges, 2 bully sheds, 1 flyover, 39 underpasses.
The second volition see 2 stations, 1 large flyover, 24 insignificant flyovers, 37 nether passes. It volition beryllium developed astatine a outgo of ₹577 crores.
