TTT NEWS NETWORK
KOLKATA | 22 DECEMBER 2025
“While the country is concentrating on ACT East policy, we along with our thousands of community partners are working on linking the areas immediate west in continuity. Until and unless, we target the west provinces like Bihar and Jharkhand, and bring them to connect and patronize our region, our target of reaching the far away markets in India will probably remain a dream,” says Mr. Raj Basu, Founder of Association of Conservation of Tourism.
The land, rail, water and air are all in the best of its communication between Bihar and Jharkhand with North of West Bengal through the Siliguri Corridor with rest of Northeast India. We at ACT have created a vision after elaborate research through relation building and have also acted upon the same to create a roadmap. We also have to realize that if we have to take our districts of Malda and Dinajpurs into the development map, we need to collaborate with Sahibgunj district of Jharkhand.
Recently, we could motivate the leadership there at Sahibgunj to meet Mr.Nitin Gadkari the Union Minister for Road, Transport and Highways, Government of India and propose for a bridge between Rajmahal in Sahibgunj with Manikchak in Malda.
If this happens, this will certainly be a gamechanger in business for all of us. Even without the same several cross-border tourism circuits have been worked upon. In the past two years, we have launched the “Visit Terai” program as part of connecting west. We had recently organized ACT’s popular and Asia’s largest rural tourism market linkage festival “Himalayan Orange Tourism Festival” at Patna, attended by several ministers, business and industry associations, beauracrats and farmer organizations of Bihar.
Last week, an elaborate survey of the tourism sites of Sahibgunj was completed for developing the cross-border tourism circuit. The population, mining and agricultural wealth of Bihar and Jharkhand may certainly help to boost all businesses of North Bengal and Northeast in a big way. An elaborate professional presentation may be made available to organizations and companies on request.
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