Railway Ministry allots Rs 153.84 cr for new India to Bangladesh railway line

Guwahati: The Railway Ministry has allocated Rs 153.84 crores for the under-construction railway line between India’s Tripura to Bangladesh, officials said here on Saturday.

The Rs 862.58 crore Agartala-Akhaura (Bangladesh) railway project is expected to be operational by the end of this year or



early next year.

Northeast Frontier Railway’s (NFR) Chief Public Relations Officer Sabyasachi De said that the funding of the project is being done by the Ministry of DONER (Development of North Eastern Region) and already about Rs 708.74 crores of the anticipated cost has been provided and utilised.