Preliminary Memorandum on Fourth Five Year Plan Government of Tripura

Abstract

Tripura is a Centrally Administered Territory comprising an area of 4,116 Sq.miles i.e. 10,660 Sq, Kilometres-Extreme length 183.5 Kilometres and Extreme width 112.7 Kilometres having population of 11,42,005 according to Census of 1961. This territory is cut off from the rest of India and surrounded on three sides by East Pakistan with an International boundary of 528 miles, it forms an almost isolated pocket connected with the main land only to a 125 mile access road through the Hills to the border of Cachar District in Assam.