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Saturday, 11 November 2017

Kolkata-Khulna Bandhan Express Reservation Open

Kolkata-Khulna Bandhan Express Reservation Open

BOOKING OPENS FOR BANDHAN EXPRESS

Kolkata, 10 November, 2017

13129 Up/ 13130 Down Kolkata-Khulna Bandhan Express (Weekly) will start its regular running from 16.11.2017, Thursday both from Kolkata & Khulna Station.

Booking will start from 11.11.2017.Fare for AC first Class will be 15 US Dollars & 10 US Dollars for AC Chair Car and is payable in Indian Rupees.

13129 Up Kolkata-Khulna Bandhan Express will leave Kolkata Station every Thursday at 07.10 hrs. (IST) and will reach Khulna Station in Bangladesh at 12.30 hrs. (BST).

13130 Down Khulna-Kolkata Bandhan Express will leave Khulna Station at 13.30 hrs. (BST) on every Thursday and reach Kolkata Station at 18.10 hrs. (IST).

The train is having 10 coaches including 4 First AC, 4 AC Chair Cars & 2 Power Cars.

The passenger are requested to report at least 2 (two) hours before the scheduled departure of the train at International Railway Passenger Terminus, Kolkata for end-to-end immigration/customs clearance.

Source:Eastern Railway

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Tuesday, 6 October 2015

railway projects 07:44

Uncertainty persists over India-Bangla Rail project as DoNER Ministry yet to allocate Funds

Agartala: Five years after the plan for an India-Bangladesh railway network was approved, uncertainty persists over the project as no funds have been allocated yet, authorities said.

“It is not certain when the work for the project would start. No funds have been allocated so far for the Agartala (India)-Akhaura (Bangladesh) railway project,” Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) general manager R.K. Gupta told reporters here on Sunday evening.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said: “No funds were also allocated for land acquisition for the railway project. We would start work immediately after the sanction of funds.”

The Rs.575-crore project was finalised in January 2010 when Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met then Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh during her visit to New Delhi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sheikh Hasina discussed the project again during Modi’s visit to Dhaka on June 6-7 this year.

India announced it would bear the entire cost of the 15-km long railway project. Of the 15 km, five km fall in the Indian territory and the rest 10 km in Bangladesh.

“NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog had decided in a meeting in Delhi on June 18 to put in place the vital railway project between India and Bangladesh by December 2017,” Tripura transport secretary Samarjit Bhowmik told.

Bhowmik, who attended the NITI Aayog meeting, said: “The alignment and other technicalities of laying the track to link Agartala railway station with Bangladesh’s Akhaura railway station have been changed recently. A final report on the new alignment was also submitted for sanction of funds.”

NITI Aayog’s advisor Animesh Singh presided over the meeting in New Delhi, where officials of ministries of railways, development of north-eastern region (DoNER), external affairs and the Tripura government participated.

Bhowmik said that India’s external affairs ministry earlier announced it would provide funds to lay the tracks in the Bangladesh territory.

Tripura Transport Minister Manik Dey also held a meeting with Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu in New Delhi on September 23 and urged him to expedite the issues related to the project.

“The railway minister told me that he would personally talk to the Railway Board and external affairs ministry about the funding of the project,” Dey told IANS on Monday.

The project cost was earlier estimated at Rs.271 crore. In addition, Rs.302 crore was needed to acquire around 97.60 acres of land in India’s Tripura for laying the tracks.

“After the latest alignment of the project, now 72 acres of land would be required. Hence, the funds required would be reduced to Rs.98 crore from Rs.302 crore,” Dey added.

“Earlier, the DoNER ministry committed to provide funds to lay tracks on the Indian side. But recently the DoNER ministry categorically expressed its inability to give funds. Railway ministry was considering providing funds for the Tripura part of the project, but has not yet taken a final decision,” an NFR official said.

State-owned Indian Railway Construction Company (IRCON) is expected to lay the tracks on both sides of the border. The NFR is the nodal agency for the project.

“The railway connectivity between the north-eastern state and Bangladesh would boost socio-economic, trade and business ties between the two countries. After the commissioning of the railway project, Tripura would act as a corridor to the South-East Asian countries,” Dey said.

Dey told IANS: “It would become cost-effective to ferry men and materials between the two countries, and between the mountainous north-east region and other parts of India via Bangladesh once the railway project is completed.”

The 1,650-km distance between Agartala and Kolkata would be reduced to only 515 km once the rail track is constructed through Bangladesh, he added.

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Tuesday, 28 July 2015

traffic 08:14

Bangladesh and India Agreements for Railway Traffic between the Routes

Progress in Rail Sector Between India and Bangladesh

The Fundamental and Subsidiary Rules for Interchange of Railway Traffic between India and Bangladesh was signed in Dhaka on 11.08.1972. These Rules, mutatis mutandis, are still continuing.

Indian Railways have Agreements with Bangladesh Railway for interchange of goods traffic between India and Bangladesh via the following routes:

Route	Operational
Gede(India)--Darsana (Bangladesh)	Since 1972
Singhabad(India)–Rohanpur (Bangladesh)	Since 1992
Petrapole(India)–Benapole (Bangladesh)	Since 2001
Radhikapur(India)-- Birol (Bangladesh)	Not operational since 01.04.2005. Gauge conversion on Bangladesh side is yet to be completed.
Mahisasan(India)–Shahbazpur (Bangladesh)	Not operational since December 1996 due to breaches and lack of traffic.

An Agreement was signed between the Government of India and the Government of Bangladesh in Dhaka on 10.04.2008 for running passenger train services between India and Bangladesh. Maitree Express is running between Kolkata and Dhaka Cantonment via Gede – Darsana route.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was also signed between the Government of India and the Government of Bangladesh in Dhaka on 16.02.2013 for development of Railway infrastructure to establish rail link between Agartala (India) and Akhaura (Bangladesh). This project is presently at standstill because of sharp increase in cost of land for the sections in India.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Manoj Sinha in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha.

Source:PIBNEWS.

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Sunday, 26 July 2015

railway projects 08:16

Bangladesh and Nepal Railway Connectivity Projects status

Indo-Bangla and Indo-Nepal Rail Projects

MoU for Indo-Bangla Railway connectivity project viz. Agartala-Akhaura new Broad Gauge line (15.06 Km) was signed on 16.02.2013 between Government of India and Government of Bangladesh. About 5 Km length of the project falls in India & 10 Km falls in Bangladesh. Final Location Survey for both Indian as well as Bangladesh portions has been completed. Project is at standstill because of sharp increase in cost of land for the sections in India. In order to reduce the requirement of land, proposal for construction of 3.7 Km railway line on viaduct has been submitted to the State Government of Tripura.

No time lines have been fixed for completion of the project and running train for passenger traffic as the project is in initial stages.

Two projects for Indo-Nepal connectivity have been taken up. The status of these two projects is as detailed below:-

(i) Jogbani-Biratnagar (Nepal)(18.60 Km) new line project:- 5.45 Km length falls in India & 13.60 km falls in Nepal. Land for the entire project, except for a length of about 1.8 Km falling in Nepal, has been acquired and earthwork, bridge works etc. taken up.

(ii) Jaynagar-Bijalpura gauge conversion & its extension up to Bardibas (69 Km):- 3 Km length falls in India & 66 km falls in Nepal. Final location Survey has been completed. Land plans for Indian portion has been submitted to the State Government. In Nepal portion, land has been handed over in 47 km. in patches. Earthwork & bridgework have been taken up in the stretches where land is available.

This information was given Minister of State in Ministry of Railways Shri Manoj Sinha in a reply to a question in Rajya Sabha Yesterday.

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Saturday, 20 June 2015

NITI Aayog 20:36

Railway ministry to send team for India-Bangla rail project

AGARTALA: To push India-Bangla rail extension project, railways ministry would be sending a high level team to expedite the process soon.

The decision of sending the railway ministry team to have a first-hand knowledge about the proposed rail project was taken at a meeting of NITI Aayog held in Delhi on June 18, said transport secretary Samarjit Bhowmik.

NITI Aayog in the meeting decided to implement the railway extension project from Agartala to Gangasagar (Bangladesh) by 2017.

“It was decided that Agartala-Gangasagar (Bangladesh) would be completed by 2017 but it was not clarified when the work for the dream railway extension work will begin,” Bhowmik said.

Bhowmik said of the total 5km proposed railway project in Indian side, altogether 2.5km rail link would be overhead while the remaining part would be laid on the land. This would reduce the estimated expenditure for land acquisition to connect Agartala railway station with Bangladesh’s Gangasagar railway station.

It was estimated that Rs 302 crore would be required to acquire land for the 5km railway track in Indian side.

“Uncertainty over funding the ambitious project was also removed after NITI Aayog clarified that the railway ministry will pump fund to implement the project,” Bhowmik, who was present at the meeting said.

NITI Aayog adviser Manoj Singh presided over the meeting while joint secretaries of ministry of external affairs (MEA), DoNER and top officials from railways ministry remained present there.

Source :UdaipurKiran

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Friday, 19 June 2015

North East states 20:47

NITI Aayog issues Green Signal for Agartala-Akhaura Railway line project

New Delhi: The Ministry of Railway has finally agreed to fund the long-awaited Agartala-Akhaura project to connect Tripura and Bangladesh, said Arunachal Pradesh state Transport Secretary Mr.Samarjit Bhowmik today in a meeting at Guwahati. After the new government came to power, it was decided that the DoNER Ministry will fund the project, he added.

A high level meeting of NITI Aayog was held in New Delhi on June 18 in a bid to break the deadlock on the 15-km Agartala-Akhaura rail project along Tripura on the proposed India-Bangladesh railway project. NITI Aayog officials presided over the meeting in which, the officials from the Ministries of Railways, Development of North Eastern Region and External Affairs and the Tripura government officials participated.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina discussed the project during Modi’s official visit to Dhaka on June 6-7. The Rs.575-crore ($90 million) railway project was finalised in January 2010 during the Bangladesh prime minister’s meeting with then Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi.

The 1,650-km distance between Agartala and Kolkata would be reduced to only 515 km once the rail track is constructed through Bangladesh.

The project cost was earlier estimated at Rs.271 crore. In addition, Rs.302 crore was needed to acquire around 98 acres of land in India for laying the tracks. Work to lay the 15-km railway track to link Tripura capital Agartala with Bangladesh’s southeastern Akhaura city is yet to start although the two countries are very serious about executing the project, a Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) official said.

State-owned Indian Railway Construction Company (IRCON) is expected to lay the tracks on both sides of the border, with five km falling in the Indian territory and the remaining in Bangladesh.

The new railway connectivity between the northeastern state and Bangladesh will boost socio-economic, trade and business ties between the two countries, the transport minister said.

The NFR is the nodal agency for the project, for which alignment of rail line and other technical details were finalised by officials of both India and Bangladesh.

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Tuesday, 16 June 2015

NITI Aayog 21:18

NITI Aayog to Get India-Bangladesh Rail Project on Track

NITI Aayog to Get India-Bangladesh Rail Project on Track

AGARTALA: NITI Aayog will hold a meeting in New Delhi on June 18 in a bid to break the deadlock on the proposed India-Bangladesh railway project, Tripura Transport Minister Manik Dey said today.

"NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog has called a meeting on Thursday (June 18) to break the deadlock on the 15-km Agartala-Akhaura rail project along Tripura," Mr Dey told reporters here.

Meanwhile, a senior state official said that the central government was "yet to provide funds for the project".

NITI Aayog's chief executive officer or special secretary will preside over the Delhi meeting, where officials of ministries of railway, development of northeastern region and external affairs and the Tripura government will participate.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina discussed the project during Modi's official visit to Dhaka on June 6-7.

The Rs.575-crore ($90 million) railway project was finalised in January 2010 during the Bangladesh prime minister's meeting with then Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi.

"The central government is yet to provide required funds for the project. Land acquisition and subsequent works for the rail project to connect Tripura with Bangladesh will be delayed as a result," a top state government official, who did not wish to be named, told IANS.

He said the state government recently approached the railway ministry again to allocate funds. "No funds were allocated in the railway budget for 2015-16, even for land acquisition," the official said.

The project cost was earlier estimated at Rs.271 crore. In addition, Rs.302 crore was needed to acquire around 98 acres of land in India for laying the tracks.

"Work to lay the 15-km railway track to link Tripura capital Agartala with Bangladesh's southeastern Akhaura city is yet to start although the two countries are very serious about executing the project," a Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) official said.

State-owned Indian Railway Construction Company (IRCON) is expected to lay the tracks on both sides of the border, with five km falling in the Indian territory and the remaining in Bangladesh.

"The new railway connectivity between the northeastern state and Bangladesh will boost socio-economic, trade and business ties between the two countries," the transport minister said.

The 1,650-km distance between Agartala and Kolkata would be reduced to only 515 km once the rail track is constructed through Bangladesh.

The NFR is the nodal agency for the project, for which alignment of rail line and other technical details were finalised by officials of both India and Bangladesh.

Source : NDTV

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Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Railways in sub-continent 07:05

Focus on Rail links ahead of PM’s visit to Bangladesh

Focus on Rail links ahead of PM’s visit to Bangladesh

New Delhi: Narendra Modi during his visit to Dhaka is likely to discuss new bus and train routes as already the Bengal government has cleared two new routes from Kolkata and are awaiting the sanction of Centre – Kolkata to Chittagong and Kolkata to Shillong via Bangladesh. Modi will be flagging off the Kolkata-Agartala bus route at Dhaka on June 7, which will be rolling out of Kolkata on June 5. Even Modi government is considering a new rail route Khulna to Kolkata and for that already a meeting was held in March. For that the Prime Ministers of the two countries might be discussing about using the rail tracks in Bangladesh.A senior official said that the Khulna-Kolkata rail link can be easily launched soon, but the home ministry is concerned with the security aspect and for that the Centre is delaying in giving clearance to this route, which is of high demand. The Centre is also considering if a rail link to Agartala can be done via Dhaka, as already the Maitree express runs on six days between Kolkata and Dhaka and extending it to Agartala is on the cards. Bangladesh officials are planning to connect the line from Dhaka to Akhaura through broad gauge and then on the Indian side from Akhaura to Agartala can be easily connected. At present the line between Dhaka to Akhaura is on metre gauge, so a change of tracks is needed in this section.

The new bus route from Kolkata to Agartala will take around 18 hours including the customs and immigration checks. The officials are also likely to discuss how the checking time can be reduced, as it causes major inconvenience to the passengers.

An official said that the trains on a regular basis carry around 400 passengers. Both the governments are considering to increase people to people contact and for that the rail and road links are going to increase, particularly after the land boundary agreement going to be a reality. For that the transport officials of Bengal had proposed a bus link to Chittagong from Kolkata and another to Shillong via Dinajpur in Bangaldesh. Nilanjan Shandilya, MD of West Bengal Surface Transport Corporation (WBSTC) said that the two proposed routes had been sent to the Centre for clearance. But the bus to Chittagong can take over 18 hours, though it will help trade links, officials said.

Another rail link is also on the cards connecting Kolkata with North Bengal through Iswardi in Bangladesh via Nilphamari in northern Bangladesh to Siliguri or Cooch Behar. During the post-independence days, Kolkata-Siliguri trains used to run in this route too, this is likely to be revived soon.

Train routes

Kolkata to Khulna

Kolkata to Agartala via Dhaka

Kolkata to North Bengal via Nilphamari

Bus links :

Kolkata to Chittagong

Kolkata to Shillong via Bangladesh

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Saturday, 23 May 2015

sundarbans 08:21

Prabhu for boosting ties with Dhaka

Suggests collaboration in climate change, transportation and agriculture

A partnership between New Delhi and Dhaka to save the rare ecosystem of the Sundarbans and that agreement should be signed in a boat — that was Union Minister Suresh Prabhu’s suggestion as Environment Minister in 1998 to his counterpart in Dhaka which could not be carried out.

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Dhaka, Mr. Prabhu, who now holds the portfolio of Railways, said his earlier suggestion could still be followed up with more such agreements between the two nations on various other fronts including climate change, transportation and agriculture.

Sundarbans ecosystem

“I proposed to my counterpart [then] that the Sundarbans is one common ecosystem, when the tigers go from India to Bangladesh and from there to here, they don’t need any passport or visa, no custom can stop them ... why not we, therefore, conserve the rarest ecosystem in the world. I proposed I will come from this side on a boat; you come from that side ... I think we should try to do that soon. We will have to do so many things together, this is one of them,” he said addressing the sixth India-Bangladesh friendship dialogue on “Bangladesh-India relations: bilateralism and beyond.”

Having ratified the four-decade-old India-Bangladesh Land Border Agreement, New Delhi is keen to extend its partnership with Bangladesh to areas such as climate change, energy and transportation, he said. Pitching for a joint water management between the two countries, Mr. Prabhu said: “It will be a great advantage to do joint water management, and save us from natural disasters; floods cause more damage than draught. If we put up a joint water management front with India, Bangladesh and even Nepal, without taking away anyone’s water, we can meet the challenge of climate change.”

Energy cooperation

He suggested collaboration even in the field of agriculture, and setting up of a grid for energy cooperation. “India and Bangladesh are trying to work together in the sector of railways, I have extended an invitation to my Bangladeshi counterpart,” he said.

Source :The Hindu

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Friday, 24 April 2015

NFR 08:04

Five years later, no green light for India-Bangladesh rail project

Agartala (AGTL): The proposed India-Bangladesh railway connectivity project has yet to take off, five years after it was sanctioned. According to officials here, it’s not certain when work can start, since no funds have been allocated yet.

The Rs. 575-crore ($90 million) project was finalised in January 2010 when Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met her counterpart Manmohan Singh during her visit to New Delhi.

“The central government is yet to provide required funds for the project. The land acquisition and subsequent works for the railway project connecting Tripura with Bangladesh would be delayed,” a top official of the Tripura government, who did not want to be named, told.

He said the state government had recently approached the railway ministry again to allocate funds. “No funds were allocated in the railway budget for 2015-16, even for land acquisition.

The cost of the project was earlier estimated at Rs.271 crore. In addition, Rs.302 crore are needed to acquire around 98 acres of land in India for laying the tracks.

A Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) official said: “The work to lay the 15-km railway track to link Agartala with Bangladesh’s southeastern Akhaura city is yet to start although the two countries are very serious to execute the plan.”

State-owned Indian Railway Construction Company (IRCON) is expected to lay the tracks on both sides of the border with five kilometres falling in the Indian territory.

“The new railway connectivity between the northeastern state and Bangladesh would boost the socio-economic, trade and business ties between the two countries,” Tripura Transport Minister Manik Dey told reporters at the State Secretariat last week without elaborating when the funds for the project would be released. He said it would become cost-effective to ferry men and material between the two countries.

Tripura’s capital Agartala came on the country’s railway map in October 2008. At present, the distance between Agartala and Kolkata is 1,650 km which would get reduced to 650 km if a line is constructed through Bangladesh.

The NFR is the nodal agency to implement the new railway project, for which alignment of line and other technical details had been finalised by the officials of India and Bangladesh

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Saturday, 11 November 2017

Kolkata-Khulna Bandhan Express Reservation Open

Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Uncertainty persists over India-Bangla Rail project as DoNER Ministry yet to allocate Funds

Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Bangladesh and India Agreements for Railway Traffic between the Routes

Sunday, 26 July 2015

Bangladesh and Nepal Railway Connectivity Projects status

Saturday, 20 June 2015

Railway ministry to send team for India-Bangla rail project

Friday, 19 June 2015

NITI Aayog issues Green Signal for Agartala-Akhaura Railway line project

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

NITI Aayog to Get India-Bangladesh Rail Project on Track

Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Focus on Rail links ahead of PM’s visit to Bangladesh

Saturday, 23 May 2015

Prabhu for boosting ties with Dhaka

Friday, 24 April 2015

Five years later, no green light for India-Bangladesh rail project

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