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India has embarked upon a mammoth project to match the ongoing infrastructure projects of China in the Asian region by entering into an agreement with Nepal for preliminary engineering cum traffic survey to build a rail link to connect Raxual district in Bihar to the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu. The accord over the project was signed during Nepal Prime Minister K P Oli Sharma's visit to India.      
 
Indian government has already started building five cross border railway lines between Nepal and India, apart from Raxaul-Kathmandu railway line, said a PTI report, adding that rail line from Jayanagar to Janakpur-Kurtha will be completed within a year.
 
Senior government officials from Nepal and India on Monday reportedly agreed to seal the Memorandum of Understanding of the Raxaul-Kathmandu rail line as soon as possible. Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport (MoPIT) Joint Secretary Keshab Kumar Sharma and India's Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (DPA-III) Namgya Khampa reportedly took part in the meeting.
 
Both the sides have agreed to put concerted efforts and resolve all issues expeditiously, to complete the railway lines from Jayanagar to Janakpur-Kurtha and from Jogbani to Biratnagar Customs Yard by the October 2018 time line, said the Kathmandu Post report.
 
The officials also agreed to take forward work in the remaining stretches of the two rail projects from Kurtha-Bijalpura-Bardibas and from Biratnagar Customs Yard-Biratnagar sections on priority, according to the statement.
 
"The Nepali side has conveyed its deep appreciation for the support of Government of India in the development of the India-Nepal cross border rail links, which would enhance people-to-people linkages between the two countries and promote economic growth and development in the region," the statement said.
 
Further, it said "The India side expressed its appreciation for the government of Nepal's commitment to expeditiously resolve all the outstanding issues including making available remaining land required for completion of the ongoing rail link projects."
 
The agreement took place weeks after Nepal and China had agreed on a feasibility study for a railway line connecting Tibet with the Himalayan nation.
 
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Notably, China and Nepal have agreed to build a strategic railway link connecting Tibet with Kathmandu, which Nepalese Prime Minister Oli sees as an alternative trade route for supply of commodities to the landlocked Himalayan nation.