New Delhi : India is trying to make Chabahar Port in Iran operational by 2019, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Gadkari was on a two-day visit to Tajikistan to represent India at a global conference on “International Decade for Action: Water for Sustainable Development”.
“…India is trying to make Chabahar Port in Iran operational by 2019… opening up of the Chabahar Port would make the CIS countries more accessible,” the shipping minister said on Friday.
The Indian-backed Chabahar port complex in Iran is being developed as part of a new transportation corridor for land-locked Afghanistan that could potentially open the way for millions of dollars in trade and cut its dependence on Pakistan.
The statement said the minister also spoke at length about the efforts and initiatives taken by the NDA government in the last four years, and about the massive work being done in the infrastructure sector, with national highways being built at an unprecedented pace of 28km/day.