E-W corridor progressing well in Cachar: DC

Special Correspondent Sentinel Assam
SILCHAR, May 18: The progress of work on East-West Corridor in insurgency-hit North Cachar Hills might have been bogged down, but the pace of its development on the Cachar stretch is quite satisfactory. This has been revealed by Cachar Deputy Commissioner Gautam Ganguli, who made an on-the-spot visit to see the progress made so far in the construction of the four-lane 55-km part of Silchar-Detekcherra Super Highway. The Deputy Commissioner pointed out work on 25-km-long Silchar-Balacherra portion of the corridor is progressing well. The work of the remaining 30 km stretch from Balacherra to Detekcherra has been handed over to PWD (NH Division), which was earlier entrusted to the National Highway Authority of India.
This part of the corridor between Balacherra and Detekcherra will be double lane as the area falls within the proposed Borail biodiversity project. The official team was taken to different places of the corridor by the Executive Engineer, AK Chanda, of NH Division and showed the pace of work. Chanda said by 2009 the Cachar part of the super highway would be complete.