Union minister of state for Railways Suresh Channabasappa Angadi on Friday said that all the eight states of the North East will be connected to national capital Delhi by long-distance trains.
The union minister announced this while visiting the Bogibeel bridge on his way to Arunachal Pradesh's capital Itanagar to attend a programme.
The minister spent nearly 2 hours at the Bogibeel bridge site on the south bank and was briefed by senior officials of the NF Railway. Later he also undertook a boat safari to watch the splendour of the country's longest rail-cum-road bridge from the Brahmaputra.