Assam to get country’s first multi-modal logistics park
Multi-Modal
logistics park !!!!!! (MMLP)
It
is a key policy initiative of the government of India to improve the country’s logistics sector by lowering
overall freight costs, reducing vehicular pollution and congestion and cutting
warehouse costs.
Assam
will get the country’s first multi-modal logistics park with facilities such as
warehouse, railway siding, cold storage, custom clearance house, yard facility,
workshops, petrol pumps, truck parking, administrative building, boarding
lodging, eating joints and water treatment plant.
The
logistics park will have road, rail, waterways
and air connectivity. Union road transport and highways minister Nitin
Gadkari on Tuesday laid the foundation stone for the facility at Jogighopa in
Assam, which is being developed with an investment of Rs 694 crore.
It
also stated that, the project would generate around 20 lakhs direct and
indirect jobs to the youth. It would be built in two phases and would be
completed by 2023.
Bureau Report INDIA TALKS………….
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