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$313.6 mn loan for Railways

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December 08, 2004 14:11 IST

The Asian Development Bank has given a loan of $313.6 million to the Indian Railways for strengthening its golden quadrilateral project, an official release said on Wednesday.

Earlier, the Railways had borrowed $463 million from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and taken a credit of SDR 62.5 million from International Development Association for the Mumbai Development Project.

The IBRD loan and IDA credit earmarked for the rail component are $305 million and about $60 million respectively, it said.

In addition, a loan of nearly 95 million Euros has been taken from Kreditanstait Fur Wiederafnau, Germany, for partly funding modernisation of signals between Ghaziabad and Kanpur.

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