{"id":11851,"date":"2025-08-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/the-edb-will-provide-a-grant-for-the-preparation-of-a-feasibility-study-for-the-balikchi-cholpon-ata-railway\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:00:00","slug":"the-edb-will-provide-a-grant-for-the-preparation-of-a-feasibility-study-for-the-balikchi-cholpon-ata-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/the-edb-will-provide-a-grant-for-the-preparation-of-a-feasibility-study-for-the-balikchi-cholpon-ata-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"The EDB will provide a grant for the preparation of a feasibility study for the Balikchi \u2013 Cholpon-Ata railway."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) will provide a grant of US$275,000 to prepare a preliminary feasibility study for the construction of the Balikchi-Cholpon-Ata railway line in the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan. The funds will be allocated from the bank\u2019s technical assistance fund.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement was signed between the EDB and the national railway company Kyrgyz Temir Zholu. The total cost of the project is estimated at approximately US$500 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to the EDB, the study will determine the optimal technical and financial parameters for construction, create a model for attracting investment, and consider the possibility of integrating the railway with the region\u2019s tourism and transport infrastructure, including the resorts of Issyk-Kul, Tamchy Airport, and connections with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) will provide a grant of US$275,000 to prepare a preliminary feasibility study for the construction of the Balikchi-Cholpon-Ata railway line in the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan. The funds will be allocated from the bank\u2019s technical assistance fund.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}