India, Bangladesh to restore snapped railway lines

[Banglar Bir]

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India, Bangladesh to restore snapped railway lines
Bangladesh railway minister Mujibal Haque said an initiative has been taken to reconnect railway lines with India in 12 places, which were snapped after partition of the country in 1947.
“We want to restore all the railway lines which existed before the partition of India. Now the initiative is on to restore rail connectivity in twelve places between Bangladesh and India. Both the governments are cooperating with each other in this regard,” he told reporters in Agartala Friday evening.

Haque was in the city to attend a conference of Rotary Clubs of both the countries. Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar inaugurated the conference.
The Bangladesh minister said the second rail bridge on the Titas and the Bhoirab rivers in Brahmanbaria district of his country was completed with funding from India, and that it would be inaugurated soon.

Apart from the ‘Moitree Express’ which runs between Dhaka and Kolkata, he said another train ‘Bandhan Express’ to run between Khulna in Bangladesh and Kolkata, was likely to be launched next month.
“There is also a proposal from Bangladesh side to launch a train to connect Rajshahi in Bangladesh and Kolkata,” he said.

Haque noted that the progress of the 15km long ongoing Agartala-Akhaura project was satisfactory and land acquisition for the purpose in Bangladesh side was complete. Land acquisition for the project in Indian side has also been completed, West Tripura district magistrate and collector Milind Ramteke told reporters earlier.

The central government has released Rs97.63 crore to acquire the land, he said. The process of laying railway tracks to connect Agartala with Akhaura in Bangladesh would be completed next year, Haque said. Out of the 15km track, 5km would be on Indian side and the rest in Bangladesh.

Ramteke stated that the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) was the nodal agency for implementation of the project in Indian side. Former railway minister Suresh Prabhu and Haque had jointly laid the foundation stone of the project in Agartala on 31 July. A flyover of 3.7km will be constructed on the Indian side to save cultivable lands and the entire project cost will be borne by the central government.

New Delhi is keen to establish the rail link as it will connect West Bengal and Tripura through Bangladesh. The 1,700km distance between Agartala and Kolkata, which goes through the chicken neck in Siliguri, would be reduced to 350km if passengers could move through Bangladesh, officials said.
http://www.livemint.com/…/India-Bangladesh-to-restore-snapp…

 

[Banglar Bir]

India, Bangladesh to restore snapped railway lines
Bangladesh wants to restore all railway lines which existed before the partition of India
PTI

Bandhan Express, between Khulna in Bangladesh and Kolkata, is likely to be launched next month. Photo: Rajkumar/Mint
Agartala: Bangladesh railway minister Mujibal Haque said an initiative has been taken to reconnect railway lines with India in 12 places, which were snapped after partition of the country in 1947.

“We want to restore all the railway lines which existed before the partition of India. Now the initiative is on to restore rail connectivity in twelve places between Bangladesh and India. Both the governments are cooperating with each other in this regard,” he told reporters in Agartala Friday evening.

Haque was in the city to attend a conference of Rotary Clubs of both the countries. Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar inaugurated the conference. The Bangladesh minister said the second rail bridge on the Titas and the Bhoirab rivers in Brahmanbaria district of his country was completed with funding from India, and that it would be inaugurated soon.

Apart from the ‘Moitree Express’ which runs between Dhaka and Kolkata, he said another train ‘Bandhan Express’ to run between Khulna in Bangladesh and Kolkata, was likely to be launched next month. “There is also a proposal from Bangladesh side to launch a train to connect Rajshahi in Bangladesh and Kolkata,” he said.

Haque noted that the progress of the 15km long ongoing Agartala-Akhaura project was satisfactory and land acquisition for the purpose in Bangladesh side was complete. Land acquisition for the project in Indian side has also been completed, West Tripura district magistrate and collector Milind Ramteke told reporters earlier.

The central government has released Rs97.63 crore to acquire the land, he said. The process of laying railway tracks to connect Agartala with Akhaura in Bangladesh would be completed next year, Haque said. Out of the 15km track, 5km would be on Indian side and the rest in Bangladesh.

Ramteke stated that the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) was the nodal agency for implementation of the project in Indian side. Former railway minister Suresh Prabhu and Haque had jointly laid the foundation stone of the project in Agartala on 31 July. A flyover of 3.7km will be constructed on the Indian side to save cultivable lands and the entire project cost will be borne by the central government.

New Delhi is keen to establish the rail link as it will connect West Bengal and Tripura through Bangladesh. The 1,700km distance between Agartala and Kolkata, which goes through the chicken neck in Siliguri, would be reduced to 350km if passengers could move through Bangladesh, officials said.
First Published: Sat, Oct 28 2017. 01 36 PM IST
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/tD...gladesh-to-restore-snapped-railway-lines.html

 

[Bilal9]

@Banglar Bir Bhai -

1. We should make a comprehensive marked list and database of Indian Dalals and agents,
2. prioritized by level of action and enthusiasm and
3. 'out' these names by publicly naming and shaming them for their list of India-loving actions,
4. so everyone in Bangladesh knows who these culprits are.

This is the crying need for the day.

 

[Banglar Bir]

@Banglar Bir Bhai -
We should make a comprehensive marked list and database of Indian Dalals and agents,
prioritized by level of action and enthusiasm and
'out' these names by publicly naming and shaming them for their list of India-loving actions,
so everyone in Bangladesh knows who these culprits are.This is the crying need for the day.

Kindly be rest assured that these are taken care off by the concerned agencies,private,political ,int orgs,various web sites,individuals,etc.Thanks to the Globalised IT technology.

 

[RISING SUN]

India and Bangladesh to restore rail connectivity
Bangladesh Railway Minister Mujibal Haque said an initiative has been taken to reconnect railway lines with India in 12 places, which had been snapped after the partition of the country in 1947.

“We want to restore all the railway lines that existed before the partition of India. Now the initiative is on to restore rail connectivity in 12 places between Bangladesh and India.

Both the governments are cooperating with each other in this regard,” he told reporters on Friday evening.

Haque was in the capital to attend a conference of Rotary Clubs of both the countries.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar inaugurated the conference.

The Bangladesh minister said the second rail bridge on the Titas and the Bhoirab rivers in Brahmanbaria district of his country was completed with funding from India, and that it would be inaugurated soon.

Apart from the Moitree Express, which runs between Dhaka and Kolkata, he said another train Bandhan Express, to run between Khulna in Bangladesh and Kolkata, was likely to be launched next month.

“There is also a proposal from Bangladesh to launch a train to connect Rajshahi in Bangladesh and Kolkata,” he said.

Haque noted that the progress of the 15km-long ongoing Agartala-Akhaura project was satisfactory and land acquisition for the purpose in Bangladesh was complete.

Land acquisition for the project in India has also been completed, West Tripura District Magistrate and Collector, Milind Ramteke told reporters earlier.

The central government has released Rs976.3 million to acquire the land, he said.

The process of laying railway tracks to connect Agartala with Akhaura in Bangladesh would be completed next year, Haque said.

Out of the 15km track, five km would be on the Indian side and the rest in Bangladesh.

Ramteke stated that the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) was the nodal agency for implementation of the project in the Indian side.

Former railway minister Suresh Prabhu and Haque had jointly laid the foundation stone of the project here on July 31.

A flyover of 3.7km will be constructed on the Indian side to save cultivable lands and the entire project cost will be borne by the central government.

New Delhi is keen to establish the rail link as it will connect the eastern state of West Bengal and the north eastern Tripura state through Bangladesh.

The 1,700km distance between Agartala and Kolkata, which goes through the Chicken Neck stretch of land in Siliguri, would be reduced to 350km if passengers could move through Bangladesh, officials said.
http://gulfnews.com/news/asia/india/india-and-bangladesh-to-restore-rail-connectivity-1.2114713

India and Bangladesh will restore the pre-1965 status of rail connections between the two neighbours, Bangladesh Railway Minister Mazibul Hoque said here.India and Bangladesh will jointly restore the pre-1965 status of rail connections.

“Currently, India and Bangladesh have four operational rail links between West Bengal and western Bangladesh. More rail connections would be restored in the near future,” Hoque told IANS here on Friday night.

“The Agartala-Akhaura (Bangladesh) new rail link will be operational within a year. Funded by India, the necessary works for laying the new 15 km rail track between Agartala railway station and Akhaura railway station has already started.”

The Bangladesh Minister is here to attend the Rotary Clubs of India and Bangladesh’s two-day third “Setubandhan” international programme.

The state-run Indian Railway Construction Company (Ircon) will lay the 5 km track on the Indian side while the remaining 10 km would be laid by the Bangladesh railways.

The Rs 963 crore ($145 million) project was finalised in January 2010 when Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met her then Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, in New Delhi.

Former Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu and his Bangladeshi counterpart, Majibul Haque, jointly laid its foundation stone here on July 31 last year.

The Indian Government would bear the entire cost of the project. The issue had also figured during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Sheikh Hasina during his visit to Dhaka in June 2015.

“India is the best friend of Bangladesh. The country sheltered lakhs of Bangladeshi men and women in the 1971 Liberation War and helped a lot to create a sovereign country of Bangladesh,” said Hoque, who is himself a Bangladeshi “Mukti Yoddha” (freedom fighter) and trained in Tripura during the nine-month-long war.

The four operational railway links between India and Bangladesh are Petrapole-Benapole, Gede-Darshana, Radhikapur-Biral and Singhabad-Rohanpur.

Two more rail connections have been proposed. Feni (Bangladesh)-Belonia (India) will connect Tripura with the Bangladesh sea port of Chittagong, and West Bengal’s Siliguri will connect Panchagarh in North-Western Bangladesh, opening the scope for future cargo movement.

India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj during her visit to Bangladesh earlier this week said a significant area of the bilateral cooperation is the quest to increase connectivity through restoration of pre-1965 links encompassing road, rail, water and coastal shipping.

The frequency of the Dhaka-Maitree express has been increased. The journey time of the Dhaka-Kolkata Maitree Express will be reduced from nine to six hours, by doing away with the two-phased immigration checks at the Indian border of Gede and Bangladesh border of Darshana.

The inaugural commercial run of the Kolkata-Khulna second passenger train service is expected to start by the middle of next month. More bus services linking the cities of Bangladesh and India have also begun. – IANS

http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=oct2917/oth052

 

[Chhatrapati]

Indian Dalals and agents,

Shake Hasina Wazed

 

[Nilgiri]

Shake Hasina Wazed

Revisit here when she wins next elections and the usual quarters here are squirming. Bilal tears are best thing about this subforum, I extracted a whole bunch already but no need to stop.

 

[UKBengali]

Revisit here when she wins next elections and the usual quarters here are squirming. Bilal tears are best thing about this subforum, I extracted a whole bunch already but no need to stop.

You do know these connetivities can be taken away at any time?

 

[Nilgiri]

You do know these connetivities can be taken away at any time?

Yeah at any time like the promise to shoot down the next airspace violation by MM

Anytime now! Just wait and see!

 

[UKBengali]

Yeah at any time like the promise to shoot down the next airspace violation by MM

Anytime now! Just wait and see!

Please stick to topic.

BD gains leverage over India in that in can pressure India to provide transit to countries like Nepal or Bhutan in return.

 

[Bilal9]

Please stick to topic.

BD gains leverage over India in that in can pressure India to provide transit to countries like Nepal or Bhutan in return.

Well that is a hope and a very optimistic one at that.

So far from what we have seen- India knows only to take, but not to give....

 

[Chhatrapati]

BD gains leverage over India in that in can pressure India to provide transit to countries like Nepal or Bhutan in return.

What exactly is the leverage? You provide us the shortest route to North East states. There is an already existing path.

Speaking of Bhutan and Nepal, I think there is an existing path where trading is done through.

 

[UKBengali]

What exactly is the leverage? You provide us the shortest route to North East states. There is an already existing path.

Speaking of Bhutan and Nepal, I think there is an existing path where trading is done through.

BD takes away the short route if India does not grant access to Nepal and Bhutan

 

[Chhatrapati]

BD takes away the short route if India does not grant access to Nepal and Bhutan

We still have access to North East. It was there before, it is there now.

In an imaginary scenario where our relationship takes a wrong turn, thinking BD have any leverage, that'll be a myth. Take a look at your geography.

 

[UKBengali]

We still have access to North East. It was there before, it is there now.

In an imaginary scenario where our relationship takes a wrong turn, thinking BD have any leverage, that'll be a myth. Take a look at your geography.

BD has no need for defer to Indian wishes as it borders the Bay of Bengal.

If India does not reciprocate, then expect this new route to be cut off.