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Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project
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<p>The Kaladan Road Project is a US$484 million project connecting the eastern Indian seaport of <a href="/facts/Kolkata/k0HVgEYm">Kolkata</a> with <a href="/facts/Sittwe/8HGFc1Dl">Sittwe</a> seaport in <a href="/facts/Rakhine_State/MJ7PAbBI">Rakhine State</a>, Myanmar by sea. In Myanmar, it will then link Sittwe seaport to <a href="/facts/Paletwa/rNX6Plwj">Paletwa</a> in <a href="/facts/Chin_State/6taBkLGm">Chin State</a> via the <a href="/facts/Kaladan_river/XRfKcTSR">Kaladan river</a> boat route, and then from Paletwa by road to <a href="/facts/Mizoram/RQXMgMFl">Mizoram</a> state in Northeast India. All components of the project, including Sittwe port and power, river <a href="/facts/Dredging/81sUKhnF">dredging</a>, Paletwa jetty, have been completed, except the under construction Zorinpui-Paletwa road. Originally, the project was scheduled to be completed by 2014, but end-to-end project is expected to be fully operational only by December 2023 as per November 2023 update. </p><p>The route of the project around Paletwa and along the <a href="/facts/Kaladan_river/XRfKcTSR">Kaladan river</a> is troubled with <a href="/facts/Chin_people/eP8ILsw5">Chin conflict</a>, <a href="/facts/Rohingya_conflict/03AUeqGq">Rohingya conflict</a> and militant groups such as <a href="/facts/Arakan_Army_(Kachin_State)/zzRTLmhV">Arakan Army</a> and <a href="/facts/Arakan_Rohingya_Salvation_Army/DGozxSNn">Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army</a> (ARSA). Among these the ARSA, created by Pakistan's <a href="/facts/Lashkar-e-Toiba/DeHCQG3z">Lashkar-e-Toiba</a> and has links with <a href="/facts/Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen/Ssj7dKJE">Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen</a> in Bangladesh and the <a href="/facts/Indian_Mujahideen/xmhMTpTW">Indian Mujahideen</a> in India, was behind the mass killing of Hindu <a href="/facts/Burmese_Indians/59xWkrnn">Burmese Indians</a> in the <a href="/facts/Kha_Maung_Seik_massacre/q66egXI5">Kha Maung Seik massacre</a>. </p><p>Paletwa is less than 20 km (12 mi) from the Bangladesh border. </p>