{"id":648408,"date":"2025-10-01T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648408"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:32:04","slug":"india-announces-two-rail-links-to-bhutan-through-assam-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-announces-two-rail-links-to-bhutan-through-assam-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"India announces two rail links to Bhutan through Assam &amp; Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Boosting sub-regional connectivity and cross-border economic activity, India on Monday announced two new rail links &#8211; Kokrajhar-Gelephu (Assam) and Banarhat-Samtse (West Bengal) &#8211; between India and Bhutan at a cost of \u20b94,033 crore. <\/p>\n<p>These two projects are part of the first set of rail connectivity projects between India and Bhutan, foreign secretary Vikram Misri announced at a press conference that was also addressed by the railway minister. The MoU for these projects was signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s visit to Bhutan last year and a formal agreement will be signed later on the occasion of Bhutanese foreign secretary&#8217;s visit here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Boosting sub-regional connectivity and cross-border economic activity, India on Monday announced two new rail links &#8211; Kokrajhar-Gelephu (Assam) and Banarhat-Samtse (West Bengal) &#8211; between India and Bhutan at a cost of \u20b94,033 crore. These two projects are part of the first set of rail connectivity projects between India and Bhutan, foreign secretary Vikram Misri announced at a press conference that was also addressed by the railway minister. The MoU for these projects was signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s visit to Bhutan last year and a formal agreement will be signed later on the occasion of Bhutanese foreign [&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":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648408","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=648408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}