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India’s Myanmar gateway is crumbling, and no one’s paying to fix it

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Recurring landslides along the KMMTTP road have repeatedly disrupted traffic during the monsoon, straining a corridor that is at once an economic lifeline and a security concern. Every day, around 200 vehicles negotiate one of India’s most strategically important roads: the final overland stretch of the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project (KMMTTP), connecting Mizoram to Myanmar. But this monsoon, recurring landslides have turned the corridor into a race against time, with local officials and civil society representatives saying emergency clearance works are

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