Table of Contents:
1. India’s First International Multimodal Logistics Park - Jogighopa, Assam
2. 2000-Year-Old 'Modern Society' Unearthed in Madhya Pradesh
3. Dawki Land Port is Inagruated in Meghalaya
India’s First International Multimodal Logistics Park - Jogighopa, Assam
The Multi Modal Logistic Park (MMLP) at Jogighopa in Assam is the country’s first international Multi-Modal Logistic Park under the Bharatmala Project of the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways, Government of India. The park is being constructed by NHIDCL in Jogighopa of Assam, and will be connected to road, rail, air, and waterways. Spread over 317 acres of land along the Brahmaputra, the park will have all the necessary facilities such as a warehouse, railway siding, cold storage, custom clearance house, yard facility, workshops, petrol pumps, truck parking, administrative building, boarding lodging, eating joints, and water treatment plan.
Multi-Modal Logistics Parks
Multi-Modal Logistics Parks (MMLPs) is a key policy initiative of the Government of India, to develop Multi-Modal Logistics Parks in hub-and-spoke model to improve the country's freight logistics sector by lowering overall freight costs and time, cutting warehousing costs, reducing vehicular pollution and congestion, improving the tracking and traceability of consignments through infrastructural, procedural, and information technology interventions.
2000-Year-Old 'Modern Society' Unearthed in Madhya Pradesh
Archaeologists have stumbled on a 1500-year-old rock painting and numerous 1800 to 2000-year-old man-made waterbodies in Bandhavgarh National Park.
The waterbodies could be 1,800-2,000 years old, but evidence suggests there was some renovation 1,000 years ago. For the first time, a rock painting roughly 1,500 years old has been found in the famed tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh's Umaria district, along with a 2,000-year-old waterbody and evidence of a "modern society". The presence of the waterbodies built at a height and used for collecting ater suggests the habitation had a modern society.
Archaeological Survey of India
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Indian government agency that is responsible for archaeological research and the conservation and preservation of cultural historical monuments in the country.
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Founded in: 1861
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Founded by: Alexander Cunningham
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Headquarters: New Delhi
Dawki Land Port is Inagruated in Meghalaya
The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai inaugurated the Dawki land port in West Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya. It is to promote trade and commerce between India and Bangladesh. The Dawki land port is located nearly 55 km from Jowai (the district headquarters of West Jaintia Hills), and about 84 km from Meghalaya’s capital Shillong.
The corresponding Land Port in Bangladesh is Tamabil, located in the Sylhet district.
The Dawki land port has good infrastructure with an abundance of facilities such as a godown, canteen, cargo for tourists and electric substation. It will serve as an important trade and transportation centre between India and Bangladesh and will ease the movement of goods, people and vehicles across the border.
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President of Bangladesh: Mohammed Shahabuddin
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Prime Minister of Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina