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(ii) Bus services on Patna (India) - Janakpur (Nepal) route and Bodh Gaya (India) - Kathmandu
(Nepal) routes were agged off on 12th September, 2018. These two new bus services under
the India-Nepal Motor Vehicles Agreement of 2014, are being operated by the Bihar State
Road Transport Corporation from the Indian side.
12.3 India-Japan Cooperation in Roads and Road Transportation
12.3.1 The 5th Indian-Japan Working Group meeting was held on 12th November, 2018 in Delhi in
pursuance of the framework of Cooperation (FoC) in the Roads and Road Transport Sector
between the Ministry and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
(MLIT) of Japan.
12.3.2 After the meeting, the two sides noted with satisfaction for progress made in cooperation in
the road sector under FoC. There is an immense potential for enhanced collaboration between
Japan and India in view of India's massive highway expansion programme, under its
Bharatmala Project, with large components of highway in mountainous and hilly region, was
acknowledged by the two sides and the following areas were identied for developing work
plan for exploring future cooperation activities:
• Deepen technical information exchange including with the private sector expanding
Japanese collaboration in road infrastructure development in India.
• Technical information exchanges on technologies related to maintenance and operation of
expressway such as ITS, disaster prevention measures on mountainous road and
countermeasures of aging bridges.

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