Skip to content
AidData logo

Overview

CIDCA provides RMB 180 million grant for Nepal-China Railway Feasibility Study Project

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$25,272,726
Commitment Year•2022Country of Activity•NepalDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•NepalSector•Transport And StorageFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Implementation

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Mar 20, 2022
Start (actual)
Dec 27, 2022
End (planned)
Dec 31, 2023

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA)

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Nepal

Loan description

CIDCA provides RMB 180 million grant for Nepal-China Railway Feasibility Study Project

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On November 15, 2022, the chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), Luo Zhaohui, signed a memorandum of understanding with Nepal’s ambassador to China, Bishnu Pukar Shrestha, for the provision of RMB 800 million in grant funding to support mutually agreed development projects (see Record ID#102149). One such project subsequently identified was the Nepal–China Railway Feasibility Study, for which a separate MOU had already been signed on March 20, 2022. On December 27, 2022, a six-member technical team from China arrived in Nepal and began preliminary survey work for the China–Nepal Cross-Border Railway (also known as the Kathmandu–Kerung railway), a proposed 72-kilometer rail link from Kathmandu to Kerung in the Tibet Autonomous Region. According to Nepal’s Department of Railways, the Chinese government approved a grant of RMB 180 million for this feasibility study. The field study, covering areas including Rasuwa, Nuwakot, and Kathmandu, is being carried out by China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group Co., Ltd., under the direction of CIDCA. As of early 2023, the feasibility work was projected to take approximately three and a half years, with a detailed report expected by mid-2026.