Major cities: Bhairabkunda, Ruksin | ||
West end: Bhairabkunda in Udalguri district in Assam East end: Ruksin in East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh States: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam | ||
The East-West Industrial Corridor Highway, Arunachal Pradesh in Arunachal Pradesh India is a road proposed to be built in the foothills of Arunachal Pradesh.
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This highway will run in the foothill areas of the Arunachal Pradesh state from Bhairabkunda, the tri-junction of Bhutan, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh to Ruksin in East Siang district which will serve as an industrial corridor for the people residing in the foothill areas of the state.
It will intersect with the proposed Mago-Thingbu to Vijaynagar Arunachal Frontier Highway.
The Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Forum for Regional Cooperation (BCIM Forum) has proposed to build a multi-mode BCIM Economic Corridor that includes a highway from China to Bangladesh through Mayanmar and India which is proposed to originate from Kolkata in India's West Bengal state to Kunming in China's Yunnan province passing through Dhaka and Chittagong in Bangladesh, India's north-eastern states of Manipur & Assam, and Myanmar's Mandalay as well as northern provinces. The proposed East-West Industrial Corridor Highway, Arunachal Pradesh and the Arunachal Frontier Highway would be connected to the BCIM Economic Corridor Highway.
Current status
In 2014 October, Kiren Rijiju, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs of India was trying to expedite this project along with another proposed highway Arunachal Frontier Highway in Arunachal Pradesh as he said “I am proposing to undertake Arunachal Frontier Highway road along with another in the foothill areas of Arunachal Pradesh state from Bhairabkunda in Assam located at the tri-junction of Bhutan, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh to Ruksin in East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh state which will serve as an industrial corridor for the people residing in the foothill areas of the state”.
The new Bhartiya Janta Party-led Government of India is trying to expedite these projects with the coordinated efforts of Border Roads Organisation, Ministry of Defence (India), Government of Arunachal Pradesh, National Highways Development Project, Ministry for Development of North Eastern Region and National Security Advisor (India).