Modi govt moves with Arunachal Frontier Highway, among India’s ‘toughest’ projects yet, China in mind


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New Delhi: After seven decades of dithering on establishing border connectivity in the Northeast, India has initiated a massive infrastructure building, the showpiece of which is the Arunachal Frontier Highway, one of the country’s biggest and toughest projects. While sources in the defence establishment and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) refused to get into specific timelines for the project, they said that this is a “strategic project which is being sped up”. Work on the project has already started in certain sections with state-of-art equipment deployed to fast track the whole process, they added. The project, which...