IMT TRILATERAL HIGHWAY

Oct. 27, 2018

The Union Road Transport Minister held a meeting with the Myanmar Minister for Transport in New Delhi today to discuss the status of the project for upgradation of the Kalewa-Yagyi stretch of the India-Myanmar-Thailand (IMT) Trilateral Highway.

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It is the road connectivity project with Southeast Asia.
Route: The 1,360-km long highway starts from Moreh in Manipur on the India-Myanmar border and runs via Tamu (Myanmar) to Mae-Sot in Thailand.
The India-Myanmar Friendship Road forms the first segment of the IMT Highway. It runs from the border at Tamu/Moreh to Kalemyo and Kalewa. It was built with Indian government assistance and handed over to the Myanmar government in 2009.
The project requires about 78 km of new roads and the upgrading of existing 400 km of roads.
Implementing agencies: On the Indian side, the project is being implemented by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) with the cooperation of its counterparts in Myanmar and Thailand and budgetary allocation from the Ministry of Finance.
Timeline: The idea was conceived in 2002. It was initially scheduled to be completed by 2015, however, now the deadline has been pushed to 2020.