{"id":450953,"date":"2021-11-22T08:46:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T03:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450953"},"modified":"2021-11-22T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T04:30:46","slug":"nepal-wont-allow-3rd-country-nationals-to-travel-to-india-via-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nepal-wont-allow-3rd-country-nationals-to-travel-to-india-via-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal won&#8217;t allow 3rd country nationals to travel to India via railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>Deepak Kumar Bhattarai, director general at the department,said: &#8220;This was agreed while finalising the Standard Operating Procedure (SPA) for cross-border railway operation,&#8221; The Kathmandu Post reported. <\/p>\n<p>The SPA is a document outlining the procedures to be adopted while operating the railway service. <\/p>\n<p>Nepal and India signed the SPA in New Delhi last month. <\/p>\n<p>According to Bhattarai, India&#8217;s security concern was one of the reasons why it took so long to finalise the SPA. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: &#8220;This was agreed while finalising the Standard Operating Procedure (SPA) for cross-border railway operation,&#8221; 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&#8217;s security concern was one of the reasons why it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450953","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}