Child Labourers work on the railway tracks on the outskirts of Agartala on Tuesday last week
Agartala: Efforts to establish broad-gauge rail connectivity between Agartala and Badarpur in Barak Valley maybe thrown off schedule owing to delays by the Union ministry of environment and forests in providing environmental clearance to lay tracks.
The stretch in question is part of Trishna wildlife sanctuary in South Tripura’s Belonia subdivision, which will delay work till Sabroom.
Expressing concern over the issue, the chief engineer (construction) of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), Harpal Singh, said unless the environmental clearance is given by the end of October, the project would not be able to meet its deadline of March 31, 2016.
