{"id":30797,"date":"2023-08-22T11:49:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T06:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30797"},"modified":"2025-04-16T00:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T18:31:10","slug":"what-is-maitri-setu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-maitri-setu\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Maitri Setu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Maitri Setu<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It has been <strong>built over the Feni River,<\/strong> which flows between the Indian boundary in Tripura and Bangladesh.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Length<\/strong>: It spans <strong>1.9 kilometres joining Sabroom (in Tripura) with Ramgarh in Bangladesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>name \u2018Maitri Setu\u2019 symbolises growing bilateral relations<\/strong> and friendly ties <strong>between India and Bangladesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>construction<\/strong> of the bridge has been <strong>overseen by National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>pre-stressed concrete bridge<\/strong>. It has a <strong>single-span structure<\/strong> that allows for the smooth flow of traffic and cargo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Key Facts about Feni River<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It forms <strong>part of the India-Bangladesh border.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin<\/strong>: It <strong>originates in the South Tripura district<\/strong>, passes through Sabroom town on the Indian side, and <strong>meets the Bay of Bengal after it flows into Bangladesh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Length: It is 116 kilometers<\/strong> in length from its source to Bay of Bengal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries<\/strong>: Some of the notable tributaries of the Feni River include the <strong>Muhuri River, Raidak River, Chandkhira River, Ryang River and Kushiyara River.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd?<\/h3>\n<p>The National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) is a government-owned company in India that operates under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH). NHIDCL was established in 2014 with the primary objective of accelerating the development of highways and infrastructure in the country, particularly in remote and border areas.The company promotes, surveys, establishes, designs, builds, operates, maintains and upgrades National Highways and Strategic Roads including interconnecting roads in parts of the country which share international boundaries with neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etvbharat.com\/english\/bharat\/maitri-setu-significant-boost-to-regional-connectivity-and-security\/na20230822151620945945315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Maitri Setu: Significant boost to regional connectivity and security<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maitri Setu has been built over the Feni River, which flows between the Indian boundary in Tripura and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}