ABSTRACT

For a variety of reasons, the cross-border physical connectivity in Northeast India, including road and rail links and air access was limited for long. This anomaly now stands to change with the policy changes and implementation over the past decades accompanied by a more recent focus on developing infrastructure and transport corridors in the region. This transition was possible due to geo-political environment changing over the years and the central government adopting a number of economic measures for the development of the region and its integration with the rest of India, including planning and implementing a vast network of physical connectivity that will not only connect the region internally but also with the rest of India and the neighbourhood. The physical transport corridors are a work in progress and have the potential to change the economic and social landscape of the region.