AGARTALA, July 1 (TIWN): Southern Tripura’s last corners Manu, Sabroom are now connected with Railway lines.

In a historical mark, Agartala-Sabroom Railway service has been started from today.

It can be recalled here that on January 5, 2018 when Udaipur-Garji passenger train service had kicked off, Minister for Railways Rajen Gohain said that by 2019 the Rail Connectivity will cover till Sabroom, whereas the work on Indo-Bangla project is going on in already. However, the works have been completed according to the promise of the Railway Minister.

On the otherside, The Northeast Frontier Railway has taken up a daunting task of electrifying more than 50 per cent of the total 6,242 km of railway lines by March 2020 which includes Badarpur- Karimganj-Agartala- Sabroom section along with Agartala-Akhaura and Karimganj- Mahishashan sections (590km).

On Feb 9, 2019 Prime Minister Narendra Modi had dedicated a 23.32-km railway track in southern Tripura to the nation and inaugurated the new complex of Tripura Institute of Technology (TIT) at Narsingarh.

Within 4 months, the major development in the Sabroom Railway lines have ushered a hope a connectivity which will connect people with the Maitri Bridge connecting Bangladesh.

Rs 3,000-crore Agartala-Sabroom (115 km) national railway project aiming to link southern Tripura's last border town (Sabroom), which is just 72 km away from the port of Chittagong.

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has been laying new railway tracks in three places, including the Agartala-Sabroom route along India-Bangladesh border in Tripura, and that would facilitate the carriage of goods and passengers from the northeastern states on the Bangladeshi railway network.

The Indian and Bangladeshi railways are laying 15 km of tracks at a cost of Rs 963 crore between Agartala and Akhaura in Bangladesh to link the networks of the two neighbouring countries.

Broad gauge railway line from Agartala to Sabroom was sanctioned in the Rail Budget of 2007-08 as a National Project.