AGARTALA, Sep 14 (TIWN): "The Agartala-Sabroom rail project has been completed 60 % so far", said Central Statistics and Programme Implementation Devaragunda Venkappa Sadananda Gowda at Agartala on Thursday.

Gowda was addressing in a press meet at Civil Secretariat, said, "The Sabroom-Agartala project of 144 KM at the cost of Rs. 3, 373.79 crores have been completed 60 % already".

"The phase-I and phase-II of the project are completed, whether phase-III and phase-IV to be done by 2018 March and June 2019", said Gowda.

However, the Minister has asked the administration to complete all the necessary works regarding land acquisition so that the project can be completed soon.