{"id":29492,"date":"2018-10-26T10:49:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29492"},"modified":"2018-10-26T10:49:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:19:29","slug":"nfr-submits-studies-on-link-to-bhutan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nfr-submits-studies-on-link-to-bhutan\/","title":{"rendered":"NFR submits studies on link to Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/economy\/logistics\/nfr-submits-studies-to-extend-rail-connectivity-to-bhutan\/article23840739.ece\">NFR submits studies on link to Bhutan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>India Bhutan<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has submitted studies to the Ministry of External Affairs to extend rail connectivity to Bhutan<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Currently, there is <strong>no rail link between India and Bhutan<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Feasibility studies were carried out at five locations<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>The feasible rail links are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kokhrajhar (Assam) to Gelephu (Bhutan)<\/li>\n<li>Pathsala (Assam) to Nanglam (Bhutan)<\/li>\n<li>Rangiya (Assam) to Samdrupjongkjar (Bhutan)<\/li>\n<li>Banarhat (West Bengal) to Samaste (Bhutan)<\/li>\n<li>Hasimara (West Bengal) to Phuentsholing (Bhutan)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Extension of rail connectivity to Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar is part of India\u2019s <strong>Act East policy<\/strong> to boost ties with South Asian neighbours through North Eastern region.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFR submits studies on link to Bhutan India Bhutan News: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has submitted studies to the Ministry of External Affairs to extend rail connectivity to Bhutan Important Facts: Currently, there is no rail link between India and Bhutan Feasibility studies were carried out at five locations The feasible rail links are:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nfr-submits-studies-on-link-to-bhutan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NFR submits studies on link to Bhutan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704613492},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}