New Delhi: RITES Limited, a leading transport infrastructure consultancy and engineering company, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Planning & Programme Implementation Department, Government of Mizoram, to leverage the opportunities provided by the National Infrastructural Pipeline (NIP) and boost infrastructural development initiatives of the North-Eastern state.

As per the agreement, signed in the presence of Minister of State for Railways & Textiles Darshana Jardosh and Chief Minister of Mizoram Zoramthanga, among other dignitaries, the state government, and RITES Ltd. will jointly identify projects in the areas of transport infrastructure as well as highways, buildings, airports, urban engineering, and ropeways, etc.

RITES Limited's Executive Director (Privatisation & Concession) Manobendra Ghoshal said, "The MoU with the Government of Mizoram heralds a new chapter in RITES' journey and paves the way for infrastructural development in the North-Eastern state, where the potential for sustainable and resilient development is immense."

RITES will lend its technical expertise and explore collaborations with the Government of Mizoram in developing industrial and logistic parks, including integrated check posts, signalling & workshops, metro railway systems, urban engineering & sustainability, water, sanitation, infrastructure, and renewable energy, etc., to attract public-private-partnerships and investments in the state.

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