Aizawl to Haflong: the new hill road that rewires Mizoram’s northern links
A 300-km highway project promises to end the state's isolation from Assam's Barak Valley.
The road that will link Aizawl to Haflong — 300 kilometres through some of the region’s most landslide-prone terrain — is more than asphalt: it is Mizoram’s second lifeline.
The state currently depends on a single corridor to Assam’s railway head at Silchar, and the monsoon closes it with tedious regularity.
Engineers are using bio-engineering — deep-rooted grasses and bamboo grids — to hold the cut slopes, a technique borrowed from the very landscape the road crosses.