The above photograph shows a rare milepost from the old transport days of Independent Sikkim found lying alongside the National Highway 31A near Shantinagar, Singtam. Built during the British influence in Sikkim Rangpo is 8 miles with the arrow pointed towards the left side i.e. west direction, while the distance towards Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim is pointed 17 miles towards the east.So accurate was the calculation then that even on this date the transformation of 17 miles from Singtam to Gangtok falls the same when it is converted into kilometres i.e. 27.2km.
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