India to open super highway to Burma and Thailand

[IndoCarib]

The new "trilateral highway" is aimed at creating a new economic zone ranging from Calcutta on the Bay of Bengal to Ho Chi Minh City on the South China Sea.

The first phase of the project was agreed during Indian prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh's visit to Burma this week when he and President Thein Sein set a 2016 deadline to complete a super highway linking Guwahati in Assam to Burma's border with Thailand via Mandalay and the former capital Rangoon.

According to analysts, the road is a key part of a plan to open the "Mekong-India Corridor" to link the world's second fastest growing market – India – with the new Asian Tiger economies of Indo-China.

Until now plans to open this new economic zone, which bypasses China, the world's fastest growing economy and superpower, have been hampered by international sanctions against the former military regime in Burma.

But with the gradual easing of sanctions following the series of democratic reforms unveiled by Burma's president Thein Sein since last August, the obstacles have now cleared.

India to open super highway to Burma and Thailand - Telegraph

 

[Speaker]

Lovely, let's also use this opportunity to develop all NE states along the way, connect them to Calcutta and build economic, cultural and educational zones.

 

[ZABASHO]

sweet! would love to drive on an Asian autobahn, and hope this is a step in that direction.

 

[IndoCarib]

Thailand will be the new Goa !

 

[ZABASHO]

Thailand will be the new Goa !

how about making it our Hawaii and keep Goa as it is

 

[IndoCarib]

how about making it our Hawaii and keep Goa as it is

You cant drive to Hawai. Thailand you can drive to (in the future). And Goa is so overdone, so we need a new beach destination

 

[ZABASHO]

You cant drive to Hawai. Thailand you can drive to (in the future). And Goa is so overdone, so we need a new beach destination

fine, we'll make it our south beach then

 

[GoodBoy]

The new "trilateral highway" is aimed at creating a new economic zone ranging from Calcutta on the Bay of Bengal to Ho Chi Minh City on the South China Sea.

The first phase of the project was agreed during Indian prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh's visit to Burma this week when he and President Thein Sein set a 2016 deadline to complete a super highway linking Guwahati in Assam to Burma's border with Thailand via Mandalay and the former capital Rangoon.

According to analysts, the road is a key part of a plan to open the "Mekong-India Corridor" to link the world's second fastest growing market – India – with the new Asian Tiger economies of Indo-China.

Until now plans to open this new economic zone, which bypasses China, the world's fastest growing economy and superpower, have been hampered by international sanctions against the former military regime in Burma.

But with the gradual easing of sanctions following the series of democratic reforms unveiled by Burma's president Thein Sein since last August, the obstacles have now cleared.

India to open super highway to Burma and Thailand - Telegraph

That's cool... Burma has turned to democracy and we always support democratoc systems(even though we supported Burma before)

Business would help India and SE Asian countries.... at least some hope and development on our Eastern border

 

[harpoon]

Thailand will be the new Goa !

With the current fuel prices it would be much better for South Indian like me to just fly to Bangkok.

 

[IndoCarib]

With the current fuel prices it would be much better for South Indian like me to just fly to Bangkok.

Lets not forget that a flying also takes fuel. But still, for us south Indians flying is better option

 

[ZABASHO]

how about you conservationists stick to rowing

 

[Big Boss]

Driving to Thailand from India could be a reality by 2016


NAY PYI DAW: As India sought to expedite its infrastructural projects in Myanmar, PM Manmohan Singh and President U Thein Sein for the first time set a deadline, 2016, for trilateral road connectivity which will make it possible to drive right up to Thailand from India via Myanmar.

After the PM's "restricted" meeting with Thein Sein, who received Singh at his resplendent palace wearing the traditional Burmese gaung baung head gear, foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai announced that "efforts would be made to establish seamless trilateral connectivity by 2016".

Singh, who had a one-on-one with Thein Sein before the delegation talks, said India would undertake the repair of 71 bridges on the Tamu-Kalewa Friendship Road. India had earlier helped Myanmar build this road and the plan now is to link it with a place called Yargyi which will effectively link Moreh in India to Mae Sot in Thailand.

"The two leaders decided that India would undertake upgradation of the Kalewa-Yargyi road segment to highway standard while Myanmar would undertake upgradation of the Yargyi-Monywa stretch to highway standard by 2016," Mathai said, adding that the two leaders welcomed the revival of the Joint Task Force on the trilateral highway.

Indian officials believe that this highway will truly become the bridge between India and Asean countries and place it at the heart of India's Look East policy. Myanmar is the only Asean country with which India shares land boundary.

The two leaders decided to constitute a Joint Working Group to determine the technical and commercial feasibility of cross-border rail links and the commercial feasibility of direct shipping links between the two countries. The two sides also discussed the possibility of Indian participation in development of key infrastructure projects like the Dawei port in Myanmar.

However, one of India's most ambitious projects in Myanmar, Kaladan Multimodal Transport Project which will also link India's northeast with the mainland through Sittwe port in Myanmar, barely found a mention in the joint statement. "They expressed satisfaction at the steady progress being made on the Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport Project," it said. It is well known though that the road component of the project leading to south Mizoram is getting delayed.

Driving to Thailand from India could be a reality by 2016 - The Economic Times

 

[lightoftruth]

why only driving .we all three countries should make a bullet train service. moreh to Mae sot would be awesome.

 

[Sashan]

You cant drive to Hawai. Thailand you can drive to (in the future). And Goa is so overdone, so we need a new beach destination

If you are driving to Thailand, why stop there? Cambodia has beautiful beaches and not as touristy as Thailand beaches. And once you reach Cambodia, HCMH, Vietnam is 7 - 12 hours away depending upon where you are in Cambodia.

 

[jbond197]

Nice development!!