Kathmandu, Oct. 24 -- At least two roadblocks to the Nepal-India Cross Border Railway have been removed with the two countries signing a standard operating procedure for operating the railway in early October and India handing over the Kurtha-Jayanagar section of the railway infrastructure to Nepal on Friday.

But, Nepal is still far away from bringing the railway service into operation as the country lacks related law and necessary human resources. In fact, there was a law in the form of an ordinance introduced by then KP Sharma Oli-led government on May 5.

The current Sher Bahadur Deuba-led government tabled the ordinance on July 18 in parliament but it became invalid after the government failed to get a parliamentary nod within 60 day...