What can easily be described as one of Asia’s most ambitious road projects just got even more ambitious. At the BIMST-EC Summit in Bangkok,the trilateral India-Myanmar-Thailand highway project would have an optical fibre telecomunication link running alongside. India is expected to announce a major financial package for the trilateral telecommunication link. The BIMST-EC (henceforth Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral and Economic Cooperation) was a perfect setting to review progress on paving of the 1,360-kilometer trilateral dream of connectivity announced in Yangon in April 2002. The road will connect Moreh in Manipur to Mae Sot town in Northern Thailand, through Bagan in Central Myanmar. For India, it will provide a land corridor connecting its North-East with Thailand and Myanmar.
Even as the highway project is referred to as the showpiece infrastructure project of the grouping of the Bay of Bengal countries, the pace of work on ground is painfully slow. ‘‘The project symbolises what economic cooperation among BIMST-EC countries actually means. Once fully constructed, there will be significant improvement in tourist and pilgrim traffic,’’
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