Up so some distance 18 January 2026 at 12:40 IST
The High Minister inaugurated two unique Amrit Bharat Categorical command routes and launched the 86 km Kaziranga Elevated Corridor mission. This twin carriageway aspects a 35 km elevated plants and fauna hall via Kaziranga National Park to present protection to its biodiversity while enhancing connectivity.

PM Modi Lays Foundation of Kaziranga Elevated Corridor, Flags Off Two Amrit Bharat Trains in Nagaon | Image:
ANI
Nagaon: High Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday laid the muse stone of the Kaziranga Elevated Corridor Project, covering the 4-laning of the Kaliabor-Numaligarh part of National Highway 715, in Kaliabor, Nagaon district. The mission is valued at over Rs 6,950 crore.
The High Minister additionally flagged off two unique Amrit Bharat Categorical trains, the Guwahati (Kamakhya)-Rohtak Amrit Bharat Categorical and the Dibrugarh-Lucknow (Gomti Nagar) Amrit Bharat Categorical.
The 86 km lengthy Kaziranga Elevated Corridor mission is an environmentally acutely aware National Highway mission. This can even merely feature a 35 km elevated plants and fauna hall that can stride via Kaziranga National Park, a 21 km bypass part, and a 30 km widening of the existing NH-715 twin carriageway part from two to four lanes. The mission aims to beef up regional connectivity while making certain security of the park’s filthy rich biodiversity.
The mission will stride via Nagaon, Karbi Anglong and Golaghat districts and must always mute tremendously beef up connectivity to Greater Assam, in particular Dibrugarh and Tinsukia. The elevated plants and fauna hall will more than doubtless be sure that the uninterrupted movement of animals and lower human-plants and fauna warfare.
This can even merely additionally beef up avenue security, lower hasten time and accident rates, and strengthen rising passenger and freight visitors. As allotment of the mission, bypasses will more than doubtless be developed at Jakhalabandha and Bokakhat that can help to decongest towns, beef up urban mobility and beef up the quality of lifestyles for native residents.
PM Modi additionally reviewed the mannequin of the Kaziranga Elevated Corridor Project. Earlier in the day, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that folks were turning up in huge numbers, reflecting the enormous public enthusiasm for the High Minister.
In a post on X, CM Sarma wrote, “A few minutes to go for the arrival of Adarniya @narendramodiji in Kaliabor, and people are still pouring in huge numbers. The love for Pradhan Mantri ji is unparalleled.”
BJP MP Kamakhya Prasad Tasa said that High Minister Narendra Modi’s talk about over with to Assam for a foundation stone laying ceremony would send a sturdy message globally, asserting that the talk about over with used to be driven by construction priorities and never linked to elections.
“The Prime Minister perhaps had some past life connection with Assam, because why else would someone born in Gujarat visit Assam so many times? … The foundation stone laying ceremony he is coming for will send a big message to the entire world, because this road has many benefits… This visit has no relation to elections, as he has visited Assam many times before, too,” Tasa told ANI.
Published By : Vanshika Punera
Published On: 18 January 2026 at 12:40 IST



