January 2024
Beginner to intermediate
456 pages
12h 20m
English
Being the entrance to India’s Northeast, the state of Assam plays a crucial role in maintaining the region’s transportation infrastructure, especially the surface transportation sector, in order to promote the region’s economic growth more quickly. Transport has been a significant barrier to the economic development of the Northeastern area as a whole as well as Assam due to its geographical isolation.
Assam has a total of 58882 km of roads, including 1739 km of urban roads, 46344 km of rural roads, 2530 km of state highways, 4379 km of key district roads, and 3890 km of national highways. Out of the 54992 km of roads that the PWD maintains, 31493 km are blacktopped, 650 km are made of cement concrete, 5566 ...
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