Title - India helps Sri Lanka rebuild railway

Lines connecting north and south were heavily damaged during the civil war. Reconstructing them will help reunite families and bring benefits to the economy.

To help restore rail connectivity, neighbouring India has provided Sri Lanka with an $800m line of credit, to be paid within 20 years. A total of 250km of railway lines linking important towns and cities in the north and south are already being reconstructed, in four phases.

According to S.L. Gupta, general manager of IRCON International, the Indian government entity involved in the project, work on all the railway lines in the north will be completed by the end of next year.