The total cost of the project was estimated to be $381 million with $170 million in foreign exchange cost. The actual costs of the line was $392.6 million due to higher than anticipated costs of resettlement, project administration, civil works, signaling and electrification. Only $105 million of the ADB loan was actually disbursed as foreign currency costs were lower than expected due to competitive contracting bids. The local currency costs were shared between the GSRC ($138.6 million) and a state development bank ($72.3 million).
