Kaladan Multi Modal Transit Transport Project-India Myanmar

Kaladan Multi Modal Transit Transport Project was in news as GOI has approved the Revised Cost Estimate (RCE) of 2904.04 crores rupees for the transport Project in Myanmar.

About the Project                  

• The Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project will connect India’s eastern seaport of Kolkata with its landlocked northeastern state of Mizoram by traversing Arakan and Chin States in Burma through a newly constructed river and highway transport system.
• It will connect the eastern Indian seaport of Kolkata with Sittwe seaport in Myanmar by sea; it will then link Sittwe seaport to Lashio in Myanmar via Kaladan river boat route and then from Lashio on to Mizoram in India by road transport.
• The project was conceived by the Indian government as a means to develop a trade route between its mainland and Northeast Region, and as a key element of its “Look East Policy.” The Indian government expects the Kaladan Project to lead to increased economic linkages with Burma and the rest of Southeast Asia. The original plan conceptualized the Kaladan Project as a pre-cursor to establishing a gas pipeline along the same route.

Other infrastructure initiatives by India 

• Tamu-Kalewa-Kalemyo highway popularly called the Indo-Myanmar Friendship Road.
• India-Myanmar-Thailand Friendship Highway.

By: Vishal