Controversy Raised Over Kaladan Project

A top diplomat courted controversy recently in Mizoram by declaring that the flagship of India’s Look East Policy–the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transport Project (KMMTP)currently being implemented in Mizoram does not have the required Union Cabinet sanction.“I am in charge of the KMMTP project and I know that it does not have Cabinet sanction,” Special Secretary,Union Ministry of External Affairs said when asked about the project after his key note address at a conference on foreign policy at Mizoram.He also said,“There is no KMMTP project in Mizoram and if there is we are not involved in it.”