Q) Which of these is the state animal of Tripura?
- Mithun
- Fishing Cat
- Phayre’s langur
- Yak
- 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.
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