The Railway Minister Piyush Goyal recently travelled for the Bhutan-India Start-Up Summit, 2020. Following the recent trip, reports are stating that a team from Indian Railways will be visiting Bhutan to discuss things with the State Mining Corporation. A meeting will be conducted to finalize the Memorandum of Understanding (or MoU) for exporting railway ‘Ballast’ which is gravel used especially to create the base of the railway track between India and Bhutan.
Details About the Transit Line!
The reports also contain details concerning the designation and announcement of the new transit customs railway stations at the following places: Agartala, Jogighopa and Pandu. Accordingly, a discussion was held to make the customs station at Nagarkatta a permanent fixture for customs.Apart from the connection between India and Bhutan, now Northeast India and Bangladesh will also be linked through the new Indian Railway line whose construction will begin next year. In a media statement made a couple of days ago by Jitendra Singh who is the Union Minister, it has come to light that the railway line between Northeast India and Bangladesh will be fully operational by the end of 2021.
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