First passenger train from Assam to Meghalaya flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 29, 2014 flagged off first passenger train to Meghalaya from Assam.

The newly-laid 19.75 Km Mendipathar (Meghalaya) -Dudhnoi (Assam) railway track will connect Mendipathar in Garo Hills to Guwahati.

With this the Prime Minister, also laid the foundation stone of a board gauge railway line from Bhairabi to Sairang in Mizoram.

Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma quoted saying; It is the first railway track in the state that would pave a new way of economic growth and prosperity for people of Meghalaya especially the farmers.

The train was flagged off as a part of horizontal and vertical development in Railways, horizontal means better network and vertical means better facilities.