Guwahati (Assam), July 07, 2025 (ANI): Speaking on Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport Project between India-Myanmar, Union Minister for Ports, Shipping & Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal lauded PM Modi great leadership and special attention on Act East Policy which aims to build seamless connectivity in Northeast region. "All the possibilities which are accessible to the northeast region under the Act East policy are because of PM Modi's dedicated leadership. Like the other ministries, our ministry of port shipping and water is trying to explore all possibilities to achieve better connectivity with the Bay of Bengal... This way, people of the northeast will get the best connecting facilities" said Ports and shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
00:00Look, all the possibilities, which is accessible to the Nordstan region, under the active policy,
00:11Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji, because of his most devoted and dedicated leadership,
00:24visionary leadership, now, like the other ministry, particularly having connected with connectivity,
00:38our ministry, Port Shipping Waterways also, trying to explore all the possibilities to have better connectivity through waterways to the Bay of Bengal.
00:51So that is why, of course, we have Bangladesh's protocol route, the other one is this seatway,
01:00and from Mizuram connecting Kaladan river and making possible connectivity with the seatway port,
01:12and which will give access to the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean.
01:16So this is the way the people of North East are going to get one of the best connectivity facilities,
01:24and it's only happening because of Honourable Prime Minister's vision, active policy,
01:28because Honourable Prime Minister wants that North East should become the growth Indian for India,
01:36and he always termed, because of his available potential, it is the Australosian of the country,
01:42and he sincerely wants that North East India should become half of the entire Southeast Asia,
01:50in the productivity, in the innovation, in all aspects.
01:56So I believe that is why we are also exploring, and seatway port has already been built,
02:02now it's become operational.
02:03Now the Kaladan 159 km length and also the other parts connecting to Mizuram is 110 km by road.
02:12This is under construction, it is going to be completed by 2027,
02:16and this is definitely going to empower us, strengthen us for speedy growth of our economy,
