New Delhi, May 26 -- The India-Myanmar-Thailand highway will give Assam the opportunity to export India-made semiconductor chips and attract investments from South-east Asia to open factories in the state, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday.

"The tri-nation highway will be ready for operations within the next three years, as certain points of stress in the Myanmar region ease out. Once this happens, Assam will have direct connectivity with the South-east Asia region-which could be key to field electronics clients in the region to export chips made in India, and also have companies from the region come set-up their factories in Assam," Sarma said in an interview.

"While the likes of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and now even Gujar...