Railway Line From Bamiyan Province in Afghanistan
India has finalized a plan to build a 900 km long railway line from Bamiyan Province in Afghanistan to Chabahar port. An Indian steel consortium led by Steel Authority of India Limited has landed an exploration contract in the Hajigak coal fields located in the Bamiyan Province 130 km west of Kabul. This region is believed to have iron ore reserves of around 1.8 billion tonnes containing around 62% ferrous iron worth $3 Trillion according to Afghan-Soviet studies of the region in the 1960s.
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