India's plans of reopening the historic World War II Stilwell Road, linking the country to China via Myanmar, has come a cropper with Yangon rejecting moves to allow its territory for resuming age old road links, an official here said on Thursday.

"The plan as of now stands cancelled with Myanmar objecting to the reopening of the Stilwell Road for security reasons," Minister for the Development of the Northeastern Region (DoNER) Bijoy Krishna Handique told journalists.