Efforts are on to transform Sabroom subdivision of South Tripura district into a gateway to Southeast Asia through measures like the Maitree Setu that is being constructed over the Feni river to connect the state with Bangladesh’s Chittagong port.
The port is 75km from Sabroom.
The subdivision will be connected with Belonia subdivision of the district by railways soon.
Sabroom is 135km from Agartala and 56km from Belonia. An integrated checkpost has also been proposed along the Maitree Setu.
Sabroom MLA Sankar Roy told The Telegraph, “The construction of the bridge on the Feni and other projects is going on expeditiously. There are overall 12 pillars supporting the bridge. Construction of five pillars has been completed. On the Bangladeshi side, piling for seven pillars has been completed and hopefully construction of these very pillars will be done by this June.”
