Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today reviewed progress of infrastructure and development projects in the northeast at a meeting of Chief Minister of the region in New Delhi.

A number of projects in the northeast are facing environmental hurdles while progress of some are slow due to insurgency problems.

The Centre has already decided to set up a new railway line between Tripura capital Agartala and Akhaurah in Bangladesh and construct a bridge over river Feni to get access to Chittagong international port, 72 km away from Tripura's border town Sabroom, 135 km south of Agartala.

Our correspondent reports, Chief Ministers of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Sikkim attended the meeting. Union Ministers including Kapil Sibal, Ajit Singh and Oscar Fernandes were also present in the meeting besides Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia.