Feni Bridge In Tripura – Burning Issues

Q) Which of these is the state animal of Tripura?

Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Shri Nitin Gadkari virtually laid the foundation stones of nine National Highway projects with a total length of nearly 262 kms worth over Rs 2752 crore in Tripura
2 Major projects
Feni Bridge
Udaipur-Agartala road
The 49 km 2-lane with paved shoulder Udaipur-Agartala road worth Rs 750 crore
On the verge of completion.
Feni is a river in south-eastern Bangladesh.
It is a trans-boundary river which originates in South Tripura district and flows through Sabroom town and then enters Bangladesh.

The 1.8 km long Feni Bridge between Sabrum on Indian side and Ramgarh on the Bangladesh side costing Rs 129 crore will be completed by December 2020.
The bridge is important from social, economic and defence points of view.
The distance between Sabrum and Chittagong is 75 kms, and the bridge will ease the transportation of goods from Chittagong port.
Sabroom town on the southern tip of Tripura.
The present supply of drinking water to Sabroom town is inadequate.
The groundwater in this region has high iron content.
Implementation of this scheme would benefit over 7000 population of Sabroom town.