India to open super highway to Burma and Thailand

[rock127]

Good move.

Is this an answer to super hyped CPEC(hyped by Pakis)?

Why end at just roads... make the road till South China sea and develop a huge port.Add tourism since lot of Indians go in Thailand for vacations.

Thank god no Freedom Struggle going on like in Balochistan which is a DISPUTED TERRITORY.

 

[rockey 71]

Nobody is beholden to BD. BD is dispensable even for our north east.

Look at the map India can still easily connect with its north east using multi-modal transport via Assam (overland) and Myanmar (coastal shipping).

Your territorial waters do not extend beyond 12 nautical miles. That many miles out into the sea it is still coastal shipping. Gadkari would be very happy with that kind of project. In any case coastal shipping costs, work out to about a two-third of the overland transport.

We are clear, strategically, we have to link up our north east with both ASEAN in the east and East India (WB+Bihar) in the west.

You better start worry about the chinese damning of Brahmaputra. Most of Indian north east has the Brahmaputra flow being very fast for any real use. BD is the one that benefits the most from Brahmaputra waters.

Not the Chinese but what is becoming a life and death issue for us is India damming NE rivers to take waters into arid C India. China's project is transparent and we are satisfied it does not disturb the normal flow of water into the Brahmaputra.

 

[Abhijat]

China's project is transparent

Really?

When did Chinese government provided any information about river flow ?

 

[hit&run]

I hope it is market/trade driven (or will become) with robust mechanism of cooperation like visa etc. and security between connected nations in place than just being a symbolic road connectivity.

 

[bengalraider]

The Indian ports of Kolkata and Paradip are far closer to industrial zones in Kunming than even Hong Kong what remains is the building of heavy freight railway lines and highways to transport goods. It's va win win for both nations we get transhipment costs and our ports get busier, they can build more inland Sez's.

 

[rockey 71]

Really?

When did Chinese government provided any information about river flow ?

Constantly. This has been in our media.

 

[bengalraider]

Constantly. This has been in our media.

links please , this is too interesting not to read!
also "shob bhalo toh rockey dada!

 

[rockey 71]

links please , this is too interesting not to read!
also "shob bhalo toh rockey dada!

The Chinese call it the Yarlung Tsangpo River. Go to Google and you will find all info.

 

[rockey 71]

Major Hydroplant Goes Operational in Power-thirst Tibet

2014-11-23 14:20:54

Xinhua Web Editor: Mao


Photo taken on November 22, 2014 shows the Zangmu Hydropower Station in southwest China's Tibet autonomous region. [Photo: Xinhua]

Tibet's largest hydropower station became partly operational on Sunday, harnessing the rich water resources of the Yarlung Zangbo River to empower the development of the electricity-strapped region.

The first section of the 9.6 billion yuan (1.5 billion U.S. dollars) Zangmu Hydropower Station, which is over 3,300 meters above sea level on the "roof of the world", went into operation Sunday afternoon with five other sections due for completion no later than next year.

The huge project, which straddles the middle reaches of the roaring Yarlung Zangbo River, will have power capacity of 510,000 kilowatts after its four-year construction. It is designed to generate 2.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity annually.

Official statistics showed that Tibet's per capita electricity consumption in 2013 was slightly over 1,000 kilowatt hours, less than one third of the average in China.

 

[rockey 71]

The river flows NE and then turns S to enter Himalaya. Indian NE and BD are served by water of the Himalayas itself. This dam does not have any impact on either Indian NE or us. Anyway we are not too concerned. As it is, India is already on way to withdraw almost waters flowing into BD to divert to arid C India.

 

[Abhijat]

@rockey 71 , would you be kind enough to provide credible link , stating sharing of data by China to Bangladesh , relating to change in flow and water volume ?

 

[amoy]

The river flows NE and then turns S to enter Himalaya. Indian NE and BD are served by water of the Himalayas itself. This dam does not have any impact on either Indian NE or us. Anyway we are not too concerned. As it is, India is already on way to withdraw almost waters flowing into BD to divert to arid C India.

China would not turn off the tap: only 14 % of the Brahmaputra’s flow is in the Yarlung Tsangpo at the point where it enters the gorge. The other 86% enters the river after it has reached India.

Were the Chinese, by some engineering miracle, to divert the entire flow of the Yarlung from within their territory, it would still only account for a small %% of the river’s resources.

It's only another Indian fearmongering of the Chinese threat by dam WMD.

~Tapa talks: Orange is the new black.~

 

[LETHALFORCE]

http://www.investasian.com/2015/09/05/india-myanmar-thailand-highway-opens/

New Asian highway section to link India-Myanmar-Thailand