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Meghalaya To Get Its First Train On November 29

Meghalaya will now be on the railway map.









Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate Meghalaya's first train connecting Mendipatha with Dudhnoi in Assam. The move will bring the state on the railway map.

Modi will flag-off the train from Maligaon in Guwahati to Mendipathar in North Garo Hills on November 29, reported the Press Trust of India. After the inauguration, he will address a gathering to Garo hills residents through video conferencing, Deputy Commissioner of North Garo Hills district D Sangma said.

Chief Minister Mukul Sangma had laid the foundation of the 19.47 km broad guage railway line in 2012, after it was approved in 1992-93.
The British had unsuccessfully built the Cherra Companyganj State Railways in Khasi and Jaintia hills region in 1895-96.


By - Debjit Mukherjee

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