India initiates work on its biggest and toughest road project - Arunachal Frontier Highway
After seven decades of dithering, India has finally set the ball rolling for building infrastructure all along the McMahon Line in Arunachal Pradesh. ThePrint Deputy Editor Snehesh Alex Philip tells us more about the Arunachal Frontier Highway.
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With all the work that BJP is doing in North east, it is pretty much a certainty that they will remain in power for a long time.
No, People only cares for Revdi.
@@ManojDas-lb4lu dont think everyone is like bengali
@@abhinavmishra1048 Delhi mein Bengali hai kya??
Up best' example revidi not work every wear ok
@@ManojDas-lb4lu vo to pta nhi, par chatak chutiye jaroor hai
Modi Govt has single handedly changed the infrastructure of India Hurrah to Mr Modi may God bless him and give him strenght to live a long and fruitfull life
Undoubtedly
Being from Arunachal Pradesh it's good frontier road building has been Green light by the Govt. Let's don't care about Chinese what they say n i hope the road project won't be given to PWD ya RWD department of mine state or else all the money would ended up by the employees by corruption
Arunachal Pradesh will become fist of India in case Chinese misadventure.
Under BRO and under centre,so quality will not be an issue,and will be completed most probably with not much delay.
Currently indian government doing fantastic job towards development of roads railways air water ways energy and defence sector is key for agriculture tourism logistics industries and defence sector
Why all this charity for NE? Are Indians allowed to settle in NE? Nope.
@@Reddy26 really? Where is this written? North East is India. So why 'Indians'?
Great coverage and information. We want such work from Media and not stupid Bollywood or just cricket
@@Reddy26 it is not charity. better infra is required and mandatory for our defense preparedness.
Very ambitious project! Shows confidence gained by India !! This should get complicated as scheduled. Thanks print for informative report !!
good progress but still a long way to go. China has over 160,000km of expressways. India only has around 6000km of expressways. Read this - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_road_network_size
Has the government given a completion date?
I am afraid a Chinese shell company will give Electoral Bonds to the ruling party, and the project will be shelved.
Not " complicated" , but "completed".
complicated🙃
India is doing amazing things. Success to India.
Historically it was believed that the Himalayas were the great barrier across which there could be no invasion on India. Now it is proving to be so expensive to defend the great barrier itself. brig. JP Dalvi’s book “Himalayan Blunder” records that in 1962, our soldiers had to trek for seven days to reach McMahon line! India has come a long way from those pacifist days.
Yeah 1962 was result of Nehru's policy of curtailing military to ensure Pakistan style coup does'nt happen in India. But it ended with huge costs.
The reason for change in the mindset is all due to China. As china is rapidly building infrastructure along it's borders side it has bullet train, tunnel criss-crossing mountain, bridge, highway, borders village. Now govt. Of india is just counter china just from defence point of view
It was poor oversight by Nehru who had no experience in military matters. He should have trusted defense people to take a call which he did not. This clearly shows idealist are not right people to lead.
Not to put too fine a point on it but wasn't that around the time India used force to take Goa, Daman and Diu from the Portuguese? Not exactly a "pacifist" approach wouldn't you say? My comment is in no way related to the issue of road development or the conflict with China back in 1962, just the notion of pacifism. Cheers.
Good going. We need to secure our borders through infra development. 🇮🇳🇮🇳
bangladeshi border too. these bangalis are changing demographics
@@helcurt2509 , the exact term is Bangladeshi Muslims.
@@PalyamBabu8308 Thats what i was going to say
@@PalyamBabu8308 no. No one in NE wants any Bangladeshi. Whether Hindu or Muslims.
@@riichobamin7612 Good. So why are keeping it a secret. First please tell DIDI and TMC people. Please all of you protest and tell the whole world you don't want Bangladeshis.
And then they say , "why BJP is invincible".... 👌
They are because they work for the nation not looting the nation as by the previous Scamgress governments
Definitely continue projects there! Iconic and unique community.
Thanks for his very informative perspective on strategic infra plans for Arunachal Pradesh.
A great endeavor of GoI. Thank you for sharing this information.👌
A much awaited and a needed project👍🙌👏 especially in Eastern Arunachal Pradesh, Vijaynagar in particular was only accessible via Helicopter or by walking.
This mega project starting from Moga near Arunachal Pradesh, connecting Tawang to end at Vijay Nagar near Myanmar .One of the most roughest roads covering almost 2k kms.,state of the art equipments are deployed,toughest terrain required to build Tunnels will insure travel time in all the weather and simmingly à jump to the capabilities to the forces moving artillery, Tanks in a swift transition. This Frontier High way will give Three National Highways to Arunachal Pradesh.
Now, that looks like some initiative.
We Indians need to mass vote BJP for the next 50years.We need 500 seats for BJP in 2024.
During Second World War Allied Powers ( USA and Britain ) developed excellent Air bases in the North East ( like Tezpur , Jorhat etc). From these bases Allies` Long Range Bombers would cross the Himalayas and bomb Japanese positions in China. Unfortunately, many of these air bases were closed down by Nehru after Independence
Jorhat airport still active. Don't know about tezpur
Both are still active
@@MsParsy Tezpur is also active but very few flights operate from Tezpur
Missamari air base used to be one of the largest... Currently it is covered by vegetation and a fraction of it's original base is used by the IAF.
@@MehboobIslam He is talking about Civilian airport I guess
Good initiative it would be. Looking for the approval and implementation. Hoping for best👍❤️
It's always a pleasure to listen to you,Alex 🎉🎉
Good initiative 👏 👍. We need to counter the Chinese at their own game. The interconnects will provide good state connectivity I do hope.
What's the point of fighting China when China is offering a better quality of life, better education and better opportunities to the people there? I am all for patriotism if it improves the standard of living of the people. But not gobarbhakt type patriotic nonsense. Give logical economic and geopolitical reasons as to why india as a whole (let alone arunachal Pradesh) becoming a part of China won't be beneficial to majority of the indians?
@@ululukululu450 "What's the point of fighting China when China is offering a better quality of life, better education, and better opportunities to the people there?" People "there" don't seem to agree. That is why they are still fleeing to India in spite of the danger to their lives from murderous PLA border guards. "But not gobarbhakt type patriotic nonsense." Look who is talking! What happened? Had one too many of CCP wonderland's "cultural" superfood aka eggs boiled in human #1?
Thanks for your comment. One question, Where would you go if you were to die today? Seek the Lord and saviour Jesus Christ before it's too late. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Hell is real and Heaven is also real. You don't want to spend an eternity in Hell torment without God. The only way to escape Hell is to follow Jesus Christ our Lord and saviour. Study the KJV Bible to know more and pray and seek until you find Jesus. Don't delay tomorrow might be too late. You are not promised even the next minute. Do it now
@@ululukululu450 by that logic, I will feed your wife/daughter/mom and give them better facilities. Send them to me
@@ululukululu450 by that logic the world should become a part of Qatar, everybody will be rich 😹
Arunachal Pradesh is not South Tibet but Chinese Occupied Tibet is North Arunachal Pradesh
Tibet is Tibet. It has had its own Kingdom for Centuries. It's the region where Indic and Sino Influence intersect
As a arunachali i can say that many km of our land is occupied by china in 1962 n is still occupies our land... But we arunachali are neither tibetan nor tibet is arunachal.... These two very different but similar in some ways too... AP is land of tribes with some buddhist also while tibet is fully budhhist... AP is land of tribes
@@kamrulin1543 whole Arunachal is accupied by India after getting independece from British. China conquered Arunachal but they moved backword themselves, so technically they can claim. It's 21st century but it seems, the ray of civilization still haven't reached to your tribe yet.
@@saanjanibaar8085 Arunachal is Indian. Arunachalis are Indian. Take your propaganda and shove it right back up your ammi.
@@arnabkl4 Yes they are definitely Indian but Northeasterners have very right to know the history without distortion.
Amazing project. Should do the same for Ladakh.
there is already built
Kya ladakh mai kare, faaltu protest chaalu kar dete hai chini agent wangchuk k Jaise log
Good WORK done by current indian government. There work speaks. Roads improvements Airport infrastructure boost Railways modernization Defense sector boost Digital economy ( from pan tapri to ** hotel) Metro system Religions place development ( kashi etc) Many more All good work is clearly visible So even so called opposition has to accept good work
That is a great road network in Arunachal Pardesh by India.
Excellent job Sneh. Love you brother!
crisp coverage...awesone...thanks Print
Very difficult terrain but its going to bost tourism in AP.
Maintaining these roads will be tough. One heavy rain and everything comes crashing down. Few days of rain can lead to landslides destroying the road.
Thanks for the positive information. Look forward for more positive informative news🙏
I recently went to Mechuka from Guwahati. The journey was torturous to put it lightly, taking over 24 hours from Guwahati, via Aalong, and Kaying. The scenery is outstanding, climate changes from +34° to barely 2-3°C
Current Government in the center has initiated most ambitious project Arunachal Frontier Highway connecting Tawang to Vijaynagar is enormous and huge development undertaken , massive infrastructure, ensuri fastest movement of artillery, Tanks, and huge boost to Army and jump to capabilities to Forces that help them build most necessary priorities, meet decades old requirements kept coming in reality very soon. The Central government and Mr. Rijiju in particular be the most to whom credit should go, for the courageous development and the latter for keeping track all this while that benefits fastest reach to Estern India possible.
Snehesh’s article are always first and new. Thanks
Snehesh, Good show. This IS a tough job. If such efforts by Indians reach the “common man” it will enrich our social capital…. Such as trust, confidence and resolve to improve in whatever one is doing…rather than waste time in political bickering…. Tailpiece: What one wears is only a visual presentation. What one does benefits.
Fantastic and about time !! ❤
This is a super informative and non gyaani episode. Thank you.
Good intiative and good reporting .
Great work
Thank you for this positive information 🙏🙏 hope so you uplod such type of news
The whole appreciation of this development in our North East is due to the daring Vision of our P.M. and brilliantly executed by Sh Gadkariji whose works speaks volume of his No Nonsensical approach Till this govt came into power the Chinese were having a Gala party in our Border When in 1961 the Chinese annexed the Aksai chin in our Border spanning lack of square kilometres i was a resident of New Delhi and i personally heard an American Diplomat who quoted is Mr Nehru a fool to think some circus is going in your border.
Jai Hind!
This will be great economic booster for Arunachal Pradesh.
It's surely for good and development. But hope the natural beauty is preserved and wish the development happens without much of natural scenic destruction. Hope Govt considers this when developing such massive infrastructure plan. Jai hind!
TKNR TKNR.FROM SRI LANKA THE BEST ACTION TAKEN BHARAT INDIA PRIME MINISTER MR.MODHI, ALSO THE ARMED FORCES ALONG BHARAT INDIA SHOULD BE THREE FOLD WITH MODERNISED ARMAMENTS and EQUIPMENTS,
It will be interesting to see how they can carve up the mountains and build this promised roads. Especially the soil condition of Arunachal Pradesh mountain is prone to land sliding.
Awesome content. Thanks.
Yes. Good one.we need this.
Excellent👌
That's reason we are giving vote to Modijis bjp🙏🙏🙏🙏Modiji again and again PM of india🙏🙏🚩🚩🚩🔥🔥🔥
Superb coverage - Great News!
Thanks for your comment. One question, Where would you go if you were to die today? Seek the Lord and saviour Jesus Christ before it's too late. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Hell is real and Heaven is also real. You don't want to spend an eternity in Hell torment without God. The only way to escape Hell is to follow Jesus Christ our Lord and saviour. Study the KJV Bible to know more and pray and seek until you find Jesus. Don't delay tomorrow might be too late. You are not promised even the next minute. Do it now
@@perryfroze Thank you Padre, but I already am aware of the concepts of Swarg and Narak. Sincerely yours, Hindu Brother.
You should forget Jesus who was mere messenger. The real God Krishna came to Earth in India ...become a Hindu and you can strive for moksha !
A.K. Antony, the defence cabinet minister during UPA rule categorically denied to construct any new road within 20 kms from the LAC only to not to antagonise the China. What a difference in the thinking of current BJP government from the thinking of UPA government?
He was a coward
I welcome this project
Hope there are no delays in this project.
Max this has no problems Because land acquisition is easy because of no land for villagers its all centeral land
Nice 👍 n commendable step by Govt Chinese r building but r objecting to IND Come on IND
Awesome update
Good. A lot is happening in borders of a India
Great news!!
*Dr. B.R. Ambedkar:* The allegiance of a Muslim does not rest on his domicile in the country which is his but on the faith to which he belongs. To the Muslim, Where it is well with me there is my country is unthinkable. Wherever there is the rule of Islam, there is his own country. *In other words, Islam can never allow a true Muslim to adopt India as his motherland and regard a Hindu as his kith and kin* -Source: "pakistan or partition of India" Book by Ambedkar
Yeah APJ Abdul Kalam sucks. Only Sanghis can advance the space technology. Chutiya bhakt!
Chatrapati Maharaaj ka naam leke khule me hagna bandh karo
@@subhendubanerjee06 Arre bhai usne likha hai uspe comment karo, naan pe nahi.
@@kamalsh6123 wahi to bola, chatrapati Maharaaj jaise mahapurush ka naam ke piche choopke gandagi na faihlay
How this relevant to the video?
Very good information
Nicely explained
Modi Govt 🔥🔥🔥🔥
*indian government.
@@7_77_. is modi Bangladeshi😂😂
The funny thing is most probably tunneling equipment maybe from China . A number of Indian infra especially metro projects use Chinese tunneling machines . We are seriously lacking in tunnel boring machines.
Not all chinese, Russian and germans TBMs were there too...and couple of months ago India has launched made in India TBMs too for the first time
Doesn't matter as long as we are using it to our advantage.
Like I said most not all from China . Also, there is no Indian company with TBMs. There is only an assembly plant by a German manufacturer to assemble not manufactured .
@@aravindc102 you build a company which will make this type of machines, then.
Kudos
Jai Hind🙏👍
India🇮🇳🇮🇳 Super PM Modi India🇮🇳🇮🇳 2023
India ( at least our Independent and Fearless Media ) should seek the views of Tibetan Govt. in Exile ( Dharmshala , HP ). The territory ( under Chinese Occupation belongs actually to Tibet ). We must highlight the Tibetan views. India is very lucky in that the Living God His Holiness The Dalai Lama has chosen to Bless India with his Presence. China/ Communist Leadership on the other hand , is SDC ( Spiritually Deficient Country ) a Godless Nation and hence can be very dangerous / unpredictable
China would have never dared had India shown firmness. India should not be perceived as a Soft State Why do we refer to Tibetan areas as Chinese when China calls Indian Kashmir as Indian Occupied Kashmir. India and Indians should call Tibetan areas as CHINESE OCCUPIED TIBET. What ever boundary disputes India has are with Tibet , China has occupied Tibet. In 1950 s China had assured the World of autonomy for Tibet ( which pledge it has reneged ). The Tibetan Govt. in Exile has accepted India`s stand on the Boundary Issue with Chinese Occupied Tibet . It is in India`s strategic interests to have an independent Tibet as buffer between India and China
They should call North easternerns Chinese then..
Maintaining such highway would be far more difficult.
Good report
Good...
Great
Thanks for your comment. One question, Where would you go if you were to die today? Seek the Lord and saviour Jesus Christ before it's too late. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Hell is real and Heaven is also real. You don't want to spend an eternity in Hell torment without God. The only way to escape Hell is to follow Jesus Christ our Lord and saviour. Study the KJV Bible to know more and pray and seek until you find Jesus. Don't delay tomorrow might be too late. You are not promised even the next minute. Do it now
Jai Hind. Vande Mataram. May Lord Shiva protect Bharata Mata from the Satanic CCP and their Evil thuggish PLA. OM SHANTI SHANTI SHANTI. ❤
Also hopefully it'll bring development to the state hightime development work was done on warfooting for North eastern States
Jaya Vijayee Bhava!!..................... 💚👌🤟🙏👃👃
This project is very crucial for defence as well as devlopment and road connectivity for people living in this region. Until now there is no proper road connectivity in the northern border region of the state. People have to walk for a day in some place three days...so you can understand the current situation. We people of Arunachal welcome the step taken by Modi govt.and hope speedy completion of project....well it will be a great challenge to complete as constructing road in Arunachal is a complete different game..and maintenance will be a tougher job. Hope it will be constructed by BRO , local MLA's and contractors are just grabbing money and no proper work can be expected.
Good 👍👍👍👍👍
Any timeline given to finish the project?
Remember it's not for civilian use, but for the military and logistics supply near the border.
Very good coverage
Hope the bjp govt remains in centre and our hon. Minister kiren rijiju will also be having his eyes on these projects.this govt is making efforts for infrastructure developments.
Modi Hai to Mumkin Hai but it is unfortunate that india needed to wait 75 years for this to happen
>60km speed limit, ~5000km long, Frontier Highway is required, along 20-30km offset Tibetan border, starting from Eastern Arunachal to Western Ladakh, including complete Arunachal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, Uttrakhand, Himachal and complete Ladakh, followed by ~3000km long, multipoint connected, 120km speed limit, parallel Expressway, starting from Eastern Assam to Northern Kashmir before 2030..!! This ~$70Billion (~₹6LCr) investment, will generate additional $4Trillion (~₹340LCr) of GDP every year after completion..!!
Should have shown the other highways that you mentioned on the map
TBM should be used for faster #tunnel construction
Also its East Kameng 👍
It not so easy as it seems, Soft soil, frequent landslide, Rough terrain, snow falls etc.....
Har Har Mahadev 💪💪💪
We appreciate and support government of India for this decision.
This will be the toughest road project by GOI
Not only Build roads; But Build Military Posts; Bunkers; BASES Airforce bases; deploy most Lethal weapons and secure LAXMAN REKA..from now.. Shift our Goal post to TIBET BORDERS..
Ok, but just a question If any one section of that road get occupied by enemy wouldn't the most important corridor be cut off?
All could have conection to other roads. Which then can act as alternative linger route.
Its very obivious that it will be connected to multiple roads.
@@kamalkumar7978 ok but none of them might be able to handle the volume. Wouldn't it have made more sense to build a high volume road away from the border area and have connection to the border?
@@nithishthomas1514 I think those kinds of roads are already there or are in the process of making. This road seems like a road for quick mobalisation along the border otherwise the terrains in AP is such that you will have to move around the mountains to go from one point on the border to another point. If they connect this road to other roads so that they act as multiple entry and exist points then that would be beneficial and some of those entry and exist roads should be tunnel roads and from what I understand this is exactly what they are planning i.e. a quick mobalisation road along the border (it looks close on map but its not that close) with multiple entry and exist points.
Please watch the vedio.. there answer to all your questions....there are three highway , trans arunachal, industrial corridor and this highway....all these are getting connected by diagonal and vertical interlinking highways... it's clearly said in the report
Print putting up news on Arunachal..... National media be like-where is arunachal maybe it's a country on Africa
No national medias only political party media's with few exceptions like wion etc.
@@7_77_. as far as ma knowledge of media is I've rarely see any news regarding AP...... N North East as whole too never gets shown.... Print does a commendable job in showing North eastern new to mainstream...
@@kamrulin1543 that's true, these idiotic media's only love negative, cringe, celebrities and fake news and are you from border bro? Is really China built villages in AP? Any pla presence in border? If you know means please tell me and importantly is really infrastructure in AP developing? If its true means what is the pace of infrastructure development?
Prior to the Modi govt nobody thought of building these infrastructure in border areas The previous govt were afraid of interferanse by Chinese
@@7_77_. yeah bro I'm an arunachali compared to China our Infrastructure is not up to the mark.... N bro it is true china has literally constructed man made villages near our LAC.... N they r constructing more.... Trying to populate the border n bringing Chinese people n army near our borders..... While in Arunachal people r leaving villages n r going into towns n cities for economic purposes... So development is needed near the border areas
Arunachal, Sikkim, Tawang are most important Destinations to us and should be given Lions share for they are located on Eastern Borders when comes to allocation of necessary Funds, Security, Educational requirements if any. My humble suggestion to Central govt.and honourable minister Mr Kiran Rijiju to ensure tourism in this area from all parts of India that will help raise their standard of living and enrich confidence among locals as well as tourists.
Excellent project ONLY BJP HAS TAKEN SUCH INITIATIVES Boarders must be fenced
When the resolution of sovereignty of Arunachal Pradesh is finally achieved, Indian would’ve wished that they had instead invested in the infrastructure on the Southern boundary. When the 1962 war is re-enacted at a later date, and a peace settlement occurs, the top half, if not the whole of this province, will revert to China. China will not allow itself to be bullied again as it did when it was at it weakest in 1912, by the British, only to a boisterous India who is usurping other former provinces of the former NE Frontier, like Nagaland and Manipur which claim they were not colonies of the British, but had invited the British to administer them before 1947. In fact Nagaland sought independence from Britain in 1946, on hearing the impending granting of Indian Independence. There has been a civil war in Nagaland from 1947 to this day, in their fight to dissociate itself from India and have its own sovereignty. India, today appears to mimic by its actions, what it was as a victim to Britain. If India was not as prone to pampering to its emotion and be pragmatic, it wouldn’t take on unnecessary territorial disputes to distract her from her greater objective of becoming a Super Power in the future. Maybe, India will have a future leader of greater vision who will not allow petty aspirations to impede its greater future.
To all the viewers it took more than 2 years to complete a four lane national highway between the twin capital and the total stretch is just about ~11 km and it is not completely done. Doubt? Just visit here and you can easily find lots of related video on fb Now you can imagine how long said project will take to complete I hope I'm wrong
infra in northeast is way harder than mainland, terrain is tough ,rainfall ,plus cutting and dumping is way harder , soil composition is different , land slides etc , ask Amy civil engineer they will tell you how hard is your build infra over there
Thanks for info. Are you from there?
How much work is done by now? Anyone from arunachal Pradesh?
WE SHOULD COMPLETE SELLA TUNNEL ON MISSION MODE IF WE WANT TO BE SUPER POWER UP TO 2047
40k Cr is nothing for national security, need to complete this project asap. More support infra would come along the McMahon line once the Arunachal Frontier highways comes up.
#Concrete highway should be built as the region recieves high rainfall & snowfall. They should try to complete the project by 2027, it will strengthen #national security & put an end to #China salami slicing policy. Same frontier highway should be built close to LAC in #Ladakh.
Project is almost done
China - Building infra near LAC, fine. China - Building infra in POK, fine. India - Plans to build something China - Don't make region unstable.
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