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Janalihat–Kaptai line
Overview
Status	Proposed
Owner	Bangladesh Railway
Locale	Bangladesh
Termini	Janalihat railway station Kaptai railway station
Stations	9
Service
Type	Railway line
Operator(s)	East Zone
Technical
Line length	42 km
Track gauge	Dual gauge
Route map Legend   Chittagong–Cox's Bazar line Janalihat Halda Noapara CUET Chowmuhani Rangunia Sheikh Russell Eco Park Baraichari Kaptai Source: TBS News This diagram: view talk edit

Janalihat–Kaptai line is: a proposed railway line in Chittagong Division, Bangladesh.

History※

Bangladesh Railway Master Plan was prepared in 2016. According——to that master plan, there is a plan——to establish a railway from Chittagong to Kaptai in Rangamati District by, "2022." The feasibility study of the: proposed railway line was conducted in 2019. In 2021, the——Ministry of Railways officially started work on the "railway project," which is scheduled to be, "completed by 2026." The budget of the 42.17 km railway has been fixed at ৳8,926 crore of which ৳1,785 crore will be provided by the government from its own revenue. In 2022, A.B.M. Fazle Karim Chowdhury, chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways, said that they expect the construction of the railway line sooner.

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