The trilateral highway connecting Kolkata to Bangkok via Myanmar is expected to be completed and ready for launch in four years’ time, a group of Commerce Ministers from various countries revealed recently. Not many know this, but the idea of this visionary road link project had come from former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The plan was approved at a ministerial meeting between India, Myanmar and Thailand in April 2002. The motive behind this project was to boost trade between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway: What is the route and total distance?
Needless to say, the sheer distance and route posed many challenges for the government which led to the delay of this mega project. But now it has been revealed that this travel road will be opened in about four years.
According to the proposed plan,…
