AGARTALA, May 29 (TIWN): Whereas Assam Govt announced that his government would set up an ‘Act East’ department to connect and take forward the Centre’s Act East Policy to connect the North East with South East Asia and also to start the ‘Ease of Doing Business’ policy, but Tripura Govt has no planning to develop the infrastructure by utilizing Act-East-Policy, rather Act-East-Policy was accused for exploiting Northeast by CM Manik Sarkar. Around 50,000 crores are investing for the roadway projects of Northeast, but crossing the deadlines, Tripura roadway remained in pathetic shape, with zero development of double lane road and no maintenance of national highways and other roadways. Tripura CM Manik Sarkar tried to lick the credit of Broad-gauge, just as Torun Gogoi is now screaming for the credit of India's longest and Asia's second longest Dhola-Sadiya bridge, saying it was under Congress Era that Manmohon Singh for approving the mega bridge project.

But PM Modi exposing Congress's negligence to fulfill the dream projects said  "For five decades you people have been waiting for a bridge. 

 If Atal Bihari Vajpayeeji had returned to power in 2004, then you would have got this bridge 10 years ago". This bridge has not only gifted Northeast with the longest bridge in the whole country, along with securing Arunachal from China interruption.

BJP Chief Minister Sarwananda Sonowal assumed the Chair of CM just a year back (May-24, 2017) and the project is completed, but in Tripura double lane road began 2 years back will cross the deadline on June-2017, but not even 30 % work of it is completed. This happened when long ruling of a same govt goes on  that lagged Assam far behind development under Congress Era, but Sonowal not only eased the Assam-Agartala way within a year, but various other projects are getting quickly completed.

Tripura Transport Minister Manik Dey just few days ago of BG inauguration said that Tripura Govt asked the Centre that instead of Broad Gauge, Centre should accommodate funds for meter gauge repairing. But surprisingly, Tripura CM jumped with his student era's rail movement connecting him with flashback meetings with Rajib Gandhi just to justify, Modi Govt didn't give anything by ownself, but by protest.

However, Sarkar had no headache for the double lane project, PWD works, border fencing works slow moves.

PM Modi on Friday reminds, "This Northeast region can play a huge role in connecting India to Southeast Asia"
Approval for the bridge was given by the Union Cabinet in 2009 under the UPA government. Its construction began in 2011, under the Tarun Gogoi-led Congress government in Assam.
 Recalling how the concept of the bridge came about, Modi said that on May 29, 2003 an MLA from Assam's Tinsukia district, Jagadish Bhuyan, wrote a letter to Vajpayee demanding a bridge in the area. "After his letter a feasibility report was sought by Atalji," Modi said.  "If work on the bridge had started instantly then it would have been completed 10 years ago," he said.

One year of BJP Govt at Assam has completed such a challenging project proving if state govt want it can push a work for faster progress as much as it wants.