Indian Railways Minister Suresh
Prabhakar Prabhu arrived Kathmandu on Saturday
to participate in the Nepal Infrastructure Summit 2017.
He will participate in the
summit as the guest of honour and deliver a keynote speech at the opening
ceremony of the summit.
The two-day Summit is scheduled
to begin on Sunday and will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Prachanda.
It is being organised by the Confederation
of Nepalese Industries in association with the government and Youth Community
for Nepalese Contractors (YCNC).
Minister Prabhu was welcomed at
the Tribhuvan International Airport by CNI President Hari Bhakta Sharma and
secretary of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport Bishnu Om
Bade Shrestha.
“His three-day visit will be a good
opportunity for sharing ideas and experiences of Indian model of infrastructure
development where involvement of private sector has become one of the key
drivers in accelerating steady rate of economic growth,” said Sharma.
The government is currently
working on six major railway projects: Mechi-Mahakali Railway, Cross Border
Connectivity Railway at five different points, Kathmandu-Pokhara-Lumbini
Electric Railway, Rasuwagadhi-Kathmandu Railway, Kathmandu-Birgunj Electrified
Railway and Kathmandu Valley Metro Rail.
Cross border railway line will
connect Nepalgunj, Bhairahawa, Janakpur, Biratnagar and Kakarbhitta to the
Indian Railway lines across the Nepal-India border.
A Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) was signed between Nepal
and India
in 2011 during the visit of then President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav to India.
Likewise, discussions are
underway to develop sky railway in the Kathmandu Valley
According to a press statement
issued by the CNI, Prabhu said that the summit would be pivotal for
accelerating economic growth of Nepal which was striving for graduating itself
to the status of developing nation.
Minister Prabhu is scheduled to
pay courtesy call to President Bidya Devi Bhandari, Prime Minister Prachanda
and he will also have meeting with Minister for Physical Infrastructure and
Transport Ramesh Lekhak.
CNI said that he would hold
meetings with the private sector representatives and prominent industrialists.
“CNI believes that the visit of
Indian Railways Minister will be helpful in strengthening the connectivity
between Nepal and India for
better socio-economic development of both the countries,” read the statement.
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