{"id":444714,"date":"2021-10-23T12:09:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T06:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=444714"},"modified":"2021-10-23T12:09:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T06:39:48","slug":"india-funded-rail-link-handed-over-to-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-funded-rail-link-handed-over-to-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"India-funded rail link handed over to Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India on Friday handed over the 34.9-km-long cross-border rail link connecting Jaynagar in Bihar to Kurtha in Nepal to the Nepalese government, a move that is expected to enhance trade and commerce as well as people-to-people linkages between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaynagar-Kurtha section is part of the 68.7-km Jaynagar-Bijalpura-Bardidas rail link built under the Government of India\u2019s grant assistance of NPR 8.77 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Indian assistance, the gauge conversion of a 34.9-km narrow gauge section into broad gauge from Jaynagar to Kurtha has now been completed, Indian Embassy sources said. \u2014 PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India on Friday handed over the 34.9-km-long cross-border rail link connecting Jaynagar in Bihar to Kurtha in Nepal to the Nepalese government, a move that is expected to enhance trade and commerce as well as people-to-people linkages between the two countries. The Jaynagar-Kurtha section is part of the 68.7-km Jaynagar-Bijalpura-Bardidas rail link built under the Government of India\u2019s grant assistance of NPR 8.77 billion. Under the Indian assistance, the gauge conversion of a 34.9-km narrow gauge section into broad gauge from Jaynagar to Kurtha has now been completed, Indian Embassy sources said. \u2014 PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,266,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}