Kathmandu, March 7 -- Nepal has sought India's financial, technical and economic inputs and suggestions on the feasibility of the much-discussed Raxaul-Kathmandu cross-border railway. The railway aims to establish a direct link between the Indian border city with Kathmandu.

During the recent ninth Project Steering Committee (PSC) and seventh Joint Working Group (JWG) meetings last month in New Delhi that reviewed the implementation of ongoing cross-border railway links and overall bilateral cooperation in the railway sector, the Nepali side had sought Indian inputs on key elements for the construction of the 141-kilometer railway.

Indian company, Konkan Railway Corporation Limited, had completed the final location survey of the project ...