Nepal will not allow people from third countries to travel to India by rail via the Kurtha-Jayanagar railroad after Indian officials expressed security concerns, a senior official of the Department of Railways has said.
Deepak Kumar Bhattarai, director general at the department,said: “This was agreed while finalising the Standard Operating Procedure (SPA) for cross-border railway operation,” The Kathmandu Post reported.
The SPA is a document outlining the procedures to be adopted while operating the railway service.
Nepal and India signed the SPA in New Delhi last month.
According to Bhattarai, India’s security concern was one of the reasons why it took so long to finalise the SPA.
