Highlights A railway link between Haldibari in India and Chilahati in Bangladesh was jointly inaugurated during a bilateral summit. This will immensely help in boosting people to people contact and economic activity in the region. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Thursday jointly inaugurated a railway link between Haldibari in India and Chilahati in Bangladesh during the virtual bilateral summit. This will immensely help in boosting people to people contact and economic activity in the region. A goods train was flagged off by the Bangladesh Railway Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan from Chilahati station which entered India passing through the international border thus heralding a new era for the people living in both the countries. The railway network of India and Bangladesh are mostly inherited from British Era Indian Railways.