More than a decade of efforts to bolster India’s neighbourhood first policy is reaping benefits today, as Bhutanese citizens are upbeat about cross border movements not just becoming easier but also opening up economic lifelines to the land locked country. With India clearing the project to build the first-ever rail links-Assam’s Kokrajhar to Gelephu and West Bengal’s Banarhat to Samtse-Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) has also got a boost. The GMC is being developed as the first of its kind Special Administered Region based on a “two systems, one country” policy.

The Banarhat-Samtse line linking the industrial towns and the Kokrajhar-Gelephu line connecting Assam to the planned GMC together promise a drastic reduction in logistics costs and transit time.

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