Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, CCEA, gave its nod to six railway lines and a railway bridge to cater to increased passenger and freight needs across country at a cost of Rs 10,700 crore. Briefing media, Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu said, the CCEA also cleared doubling of 261 kilometres of Katni-Singarauli railway line at a cost of Rs 2084 crore. <br/><br/>The project will be completed in five years. It also approved 165km long 3rd railway line between Anuppur-Katni in Madhya Pradesh at cost of Rs 1595 crore to be completed in five years. Additional bridge and doubling of Rampur Dumra-Tal-Rajendrapul sector in Bihar at a cost of Rs 1700 crore to be by 2019-20 was also cleared.<br/><br/>Cabinet has approved signing of Agreement for collaboration in Traditional Medicine between Ministry of AYUSH and the World Health Organisation. Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, this will help in improving international acceptability and branding of AYUSH systems.<br/><br/>Government also approved proposal for Notification of Commitments under the Trade Facilitation Agreement, TFA, of the World Trade Organisation. It also approved ratification of Instrument of Acceptance of Protocol of TFA and National Committee on Trade Facilitation. <br/><br/>The Cabinet has given its ex-post facto approval for Memoranda of Understanding, signed between India and various countries for cooperation in the field of agriculture and allied sectors. <br/><br/>The MoU will help in the nature of capacity building, knowledge exchange through visits of scientists and technicians, exchange of genetic resources that aid in the development of appropriate technologies and farm practices for enhancing agriculture productivity at farmers' field. Expertise and technology so developed is applied all over the country as per felt needs.<br/><br/>The Cabinet was apprised of signing of BRICS MoU on cooperation in the fields of Science, Technology and innovation. India signed BRICS MoU on cooperation in the fields of Science, Technology and Innovation in March 2015 at Brasilia in Brazil on the sidelines of 3rd BRICS STI Ministerial meeting. <br/><br/>The MoU envisages promotion of cooperation in the field of science, technology and innovation among BRICS countries by means of mutually agreed Science and Technology events and activities.<br/><br/>The Cabinet also gave its approval for nomination of Chief Executive Officer of NITI Aayog as a part-time Member of the Telecom Commission in place of Secretary, Planning Commission which is Non-existent nowCabinet also gave its nod for amendment of Delimitation Act, Representation of the People Act to allow delimitation of constituencies in West Bengal. <br/><br/>The amendments were necessary after exchanges of enclaves between India and Bangladesh last year.<br/> <br/>Cabinet also commended sports persons for their performance at South Asian games concluded yesterday.