The Haldia–Raxaul Expressway is a 650 km (400 mi) long, planned and upcoming access controlled greenfield expressway that will connect Raxaul district of

Bihar Bihar ( ) is a states and union territories of India, state in Eastern India. It is the list of states and union territories of India by population, second largest state by population, the List of states and union territories of India by are ...

with

Haldia port The Haldia Dock Complex (HDC) also popularly known as Haldia Port is a docking facility on the Hooghly River in Haldia, West Bengal, India. It is one of the two dock systems under the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata, with the other being ...

West Bengal West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabi ...

.This expressway will pass from the Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal of India. This project is a part of

Bharatmala Pariyojana The Bharatmala Pariyojna ( 'India garland project') is a project in India implemented by Government of India. It was slated to interconnect 550 District Headquarters (from the current 300) through a minimum 4-lane highway by raising the numbe ...

. This expressway is aimed to reduce the time and distance between the locations.Also, Haldia Port, Haldia port currently handles most of Nepal's trade, but there is no developed highway with

to the

India–Nepal border The India–Nepal border is an Open border, open international boundary running between the republics of India and Nepal. The long border includes the Himalayas, Himalayan territories as well as Indo-Gangetic Plain of the subcontinent. The curre ...

. Haldia-Raxaul Expressway is proposed to be constructed with the aim of establishing better highway connectivity.

Route

West Bengal

Haldia–Raxaul Expressway starts in

Haldia Haldia () is an industrial port city in Purba Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It has a major river port and industrial belt located approximately southwest of Kolkata near the mouth of the Hooghly River, one of the d ...

Purba Medinipur district East Medinipur (Alternative spelling ''Midnapore'') district is an administrative unit in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the southernmost district of Medinipur division – one of the five administrative divisions of West Bengal. The ...

, West Bengal. It crosses Medinipur and Bardhaman Division in West Bengal, and enters

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in East India, eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north ...

state.

Jharkhand

This expressway passes through

Deoghar Deoghar (pronounced ''Devghar'') is a city and a municipal corporation in Deoghar district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It is also the administrative headquarters of Deoghar district. It is a holy place of Hinduism. The city is primarily ...

and

Dumka district Dumka district is one of the twenty-four districts of Jharkhand state in eastern India. Dumka is the administrative headquarters of this district. This district covers an area of 3716.02 km. This district has a population of 1,321,442 (20 ...

in Jharkhand.

Bihar

This expressway passes through Banka,

Jamui Jamui is a town and a municipality in Jamui district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Bihar. It is the district headquarter of Jamui district. Jamui was formed as a district on 21 February 1991 as a result of its separati ...

Lakhisarai Lakhisarai (archaic spelling: Luckeesarai) town is the administrative headquarters of Lakhisarai district in the Indian state of Bihar. The town has a population of 99,979 (2011 census). it is situated about 45 km west of Munger Munger, form ...

Begusarai Begusarai is the industrial and financial capital of Bihar and the administrative headquarters of the Begusarai district, which is one of the 38 districts of the Indian state of Bihar. The district lies on the northern bank of the river Gan ...

Samastipur Samastipur is a City and Municipal Corporation in Bihar, India. It is the headquarter of Samastipur district and comes under Darbhanga division. The Burhi Gandak River flows through the city. It is one of the five railway divisions of ECR, H ...

,(Sarfuddinpur, Hathauri, Olipur, Ratanpur Ratan),

Muzaffarpur Muzaffarpur () is a city located in Muzaffarpur district on the banks of Burhi Gandak River, Burhi Gandak river in the Tirhut division of the Indian state of Bihar. It serves as the headquarters of the Tirhut division, the Muzaffarpur distri ...

,(Narwara), Sheohar and (Chak Nagri, Pakridayal, Khatri East, Lakhaura, Narkatia, Raxaul),

East Champaran East Champaran or Purvi Champaran is an administrative district in the Tirhut division of the state of Bihar in India. The district headquarter is located at Motihari. Prior to 1971, there was a single Champaran District. On 1 December 1971, ...

and in Bihar.

Background

currently handles most of Nepal's trade, but there is no developed highway with Haldia port to the

. Haldia-Raxaul Expressway is proposed to be constructed with the aim of establishing better highway connectivity. The 650 km long expressway will serve the primary objective of improving freight efficiency and increasing exports from neighboring regions.

History

The

National Highways Authority of India The National Highways Authority of India or NHAI () is an autonomous agency of the Government of India, set up in 1995 (Act 1988) and is responsible for management of a road network of over 50,000 km of National highways out of 1,32,499 ...

(NHAI) invited tenders in 2021 to prepare a detailed project report for an expressway connecting

Raxaul Raxaul is a sub-divisional town in the East Champaran district of the Indian state of Bihar. It is situated at the India-Nepal border with Birgunj city (Nepal). Raxaul is a major railway junction. The other part of Raxaul is Mehsi where litchi ...

in Bihar on the Indo-Nepal border with the

. After opening technical bids on 17 June 2021, the

announced that 13 design and engineering firms had submitted bids to prepare a detailed project report for the approximately 650 km Raxaul-Haldia Expressway.

References

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