Soon after India proposed to construct a bridge over the Feni river in south Tripura to enable access to the Chittagong port in Bangladesh, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to convert the Agartala-Sabroom portion of the Assam-Agartala national highway (NH 44) from the existing double lane to four-lane by 2013.
The 133-km long highway from Tripura capital Agartala to the border town of Sabroom would be reduced to 127 km and would avoid passage through Agartala city, the Sipahijala wild life sanctuary and national park in western Tripura.
