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Arunachal Frontier Highway

Proposed border highway in Arunachal Pradesh, India

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Through Government of India, Assam and Nagaland

In some places, this highway will run as close as 20 km from the LAC. To be constructed by MoRTH in 9 packages, all packages will be approved by the end of FY 2024-25 (March 2025) and construction will be completed by 31 March 2029. Of the total route, 800km is greenfield, rest brownfield will be upgraded and tunnels will be built. This highway in the north & east Arunachal along the China border would complement the Trans-Arunachal Highway (through the middle of Arunachal) and the Arunachal East-West Corridor (in south Arunachal in foothills along the Assam border) as major highways spanning the whole state, pursuing the Look East connectivity policy.

History

Conveived

In 2016, empowered committee on border infrastructure asked the MoRTH to prepare the detailed project reports (DPR) as per the alignment agreed by the home ministry, defence ministry & Arunachal state government. In 2018, Home ministry enhanced the alignment for the additional connectivity. MoRTH identifies the highway as one of the 29 corridors close to the 3,600 km international border, to be undertaken as a NHDP (which has been subsumed by the Bharatmala project), though there is "little habitation" along the proposed route and only "small stretches of minor roads".

Construction

It will be constructed in the following nine packages, all approvals and land acquisition will be progressively completed by March 2025, and the construction will be progressively completed by March 2027 in fully government-funded "engineering procure and construct" (EPC) mode.

  • Package-1 Nafra–Lada, 141 km (Nafra–Dibrick–Sachung–Lada): full budget approved in 2023.
  • Package-2 Lada–Sarli, 200 km: for 106 km budget of ₹ 2,249 crore approved in Feb 2024.
  • Package-3 Sarli-Tali, 201 km (Sarli-Huri–Parsi Parlo–Tali):
    • Sarli-Huri: for 35 km a budget of ₹626.92 crore approved in Feb 2024.
  • Package-4 Tali–Mechuka, 225 km (Tali–Taliha–Siyum–Mechuka):
  • Package-5 Mechuka–Bile, 183 km (Mechuka–Tato–Monigong–Tato–Bile):
  • Package-6 Bile–Hunli, 230 km (Bile–Migging–Tuting–Singa–Anelye–Hunli):
  • Package-7 Hunli–Hayuliang, 186 km:
  • Package-8: Hayuliang–Miao, 285 km (Hayuliang–Changwinti–Hawai–Miao):
  • Package-9 Miao–Vijaynagar, 157 km (Miao–Gandhigramm–Vijaynagar):
    • Kharsang-Gandhigram: for 61.5 km a budget of Rs 1,015 crore approved in Feb 2024.

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