The fourth Nepal-India Joint Working Group meeting on Railway Cooperation was held on Thursday via video-conferencing.

The JWG reviewed the cross-border rail link projects that are between Jaynagar-Bijalpura-Bardibas and Jogbani-Biratnagar under advance implementation. Both sides discussed the technical preparedness of the completed 34-km-long section of the railway line between Jaynagar in India and Kurtha in Nepal for the purpose of running passenger train services, including the standard operating procedures (SOP) that need to be put in place for resumption of passenger train services by Nepal Railway Company (NRC).

The section, originally a narrow gauge built by British India, was upgraded by the Indian government to broad gauge at a cost of over Rs 6.08 billion, as per a media release.

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