Dikhyaa Mohanty 
On behalf of Government of India, IRCON has handed over the newly commissioned cross-border rail section from Jaynagar (Km. 0.00) to Kurtha (Km. 34.90) to Government of Nepal (GoN) on October 22. Under the grant assistance from Government of India and MoU signed between GoI and GoN to undertake Indo-Nepal Cross Border Railway Projects, the work of Jaynagar (India) to Bardibas (Nepal) rail line project was entrusted to Ircon International Limited.
According to the reports, Shri Vinay Mohan Kwatra, Ambassador of India to Nepal and Ms. Renu Kumar Yadav, Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Government of Nepal, graced their presence. On behalf of IRCON, Shri Ravi Sahai, Project Head and Shri Surender Singh, Executive Director handed over the project to Shri Niranjan Kumar Jha, MD, Nepal Railway Company Ltd. (on behalf of GoN) and Shri Deepak Kumar Bhattarai, Director General, Department of Railways.
Shri Yogesh Kumar Misra, Chairman & Managing Director, Ircon International Limited stated that the cross‐border rail link is a significant milestone, which will take Indo‐Nepal cooperation to a new level. Soon to be operationalized, this would be the first broad gauge (BG) cross‐ border rail link between India and Nepal which would further boost relations between the two neighboring countries.
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