Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: Mizoram’s Aizawl will become the fourth capital city in the northeast region to come under railway connectivity by July next year as the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is laying the new Broad Gauge (BG) track up to Sairang, near Aizawl, officials said on July 22.
Assam’s Guwahati (adjoining capital Dispur), Tripura capital Agartala, and Arunachal Pradesh’s Naharlagun (adjacent to capital city Itanagar) are already connected with the railway network.
NFR officials said that the new Broad Gauge line is being laid in the Bairabi (near Assam’s Hailakandi District) – Sairang (52 km) section in Mizoram’s Aizawl District.
“The Rs 8,213.72 crore Bairabi-Sairang railway project would be commissioned in July 2025,” a senior NFR official said. He said that 93 per cent of the physical works of the railway project were completed at this point. There are four stations: Hortoki, Kawnpui, Mualkhang, and Sairang.
The 52 km new line between Bairabi and Sairang is divided into four sections — Bairabi–Hortoki, Hortoki–Kawnpui, Kawnpui–Mualkhang, and Mualkhang–Sairang. An NFR team led by its Chief Engineer (Construction) Vinod Kumar apprised Mizoram Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati about the progress of the under-construction railway project.
