PM Hasina, Modi to relaunch defunct rail route
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Published: 18:08, 11 December 2020
Update: 18:10, 11 December 2020
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian PM Narendra Modi
The rail route between Bangladesh’s Chilahati in Nilphamari and Haldibari of West Bengal is set to reopen on December 17 after a gap of almost 55 years.
The railway line remained defunct since rail links between India and then East Pakistan snapped in 1965.
"Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate Haldibari-Chilahati rail route on December 17," NFR Chief Public Relations Officer Subhanan Chanda told Press Trust of India.
A goods train will run from Chilahati to Haldibari, which is under the Katihar division of the NRF, to mark the opening of the route, he added.
