The Trilateral Highway (TH) connecting India, Myanmar and Thailand is prone to be commissioned in December 2019.
India, Thailand and Myanmar are working on a 1,400-km highway that can connect India to Southeast Asia by land. Once operational, the highway will strengthen trade, business, health, education and tourism ties between the three countries.
It is planned to attach projects corresponding to the India-Myanmar-Thailand TH, the extension of TH to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam under the Kaladan multimodal transit transport project, that are at various stages of implementation.
The India–Myanmar–Thailand trilateral highway is an element of India’s “Look East” policy, which can connect Moreh in India with Mae Sot in Thailand via Myanmar. The Imphal–Mandalay–Bangkok route is 1,980 km (1,230 mi) long, including Imphal–Mandalay of 584 km and Mandalay–Bangkok of 1,397 km.
The road is predicted to spice up trade and commerce throughout the ASEAN-India free trade area, in addition to with the remaining of Southeast Asia. India has also proposed extending the highway to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. The proposed 3,200 km route from India to Vietnam is often known as the East-West Economic Corridor (Thailand to Cambodia and Vietnam was launched in 2015).
India and ASEAN plan to expand this route to incorporate Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam because the link will generate an estimated $70 billion in additional GDP per 12 months and 20 million additional jobs by 2025. India has also offered a $1 billion line of credit for India-ASEAN connectivity projects (circa December 2017).
source: Projectstoday.com | Livemint.com
