{"id":80789,"date":"2018-09-08T13:23:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T20:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=80789"},"modified":"2018-09-08T13:23:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T20:23:40","slug":"india-to-supply-160-railway-passenger-coaches-worth-us-82-64-million-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/09\/08\/india-to-supply-160-railway-passenger-coaches-worth-us-82-64-million-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"India to supply 160 railway passenger coaches worth US$ 82.64 million to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Colombo, September 8 (DDNews): An agreement to supply160 railway passenger coaches custom-made in India, was signed between RITES Limited of India and Sri Lankan government in Colombo on September 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The US 82.64 million contract is part of a line of credit agreement for procurement of railway rolling stock and upgrading of rail tracks worth US$ 318 million which was signed between EXIM Bank of India and Government of Sri Lanka in June 2017.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"India to supply 160 railway passenger coaches worth US$ 82.64 million to Sri Lanka\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Signing-of-the-agreement-on-the-supply-of-Indian-rail-passnger-coaches.jpg?fit=701%2C526&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"India to supply 160 railway passenger coaches worth US$ 82.64 million to Sri Lanka\" width=\"446\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Procurement of rolling stock from India which are underway also include 6 DMUs, 10 locomotives, 20 container carrier wagons and 30 fuel tank wagons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">RITES Ltd. will be supplying the DMUs and locomotives, whereas Texmaco Rail &amp; Engineering Ltd. will be supplying the wagons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">India has already completed projects close to US$ 1 billion under concessional financing in the railway sector in Sri Lanka including railway lines to Jaffna and Thalaimannar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">This project is in continuation of India\u2019s efforts to partner with Sri Lanka in people-oriented connectivity projects in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, September 8 (DDNews): An agreement to supply160 railway passenger coaches custom-made in India, was signed between RITES Limited of India and Sri Lankan government in Colombo on September 7. The US 82.64 million contract is part of a line of credit agreement for procurement of railway rolling stock and upgrading of rail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}