AGARTALA, Feb 27 (TIWN / IANS) Criticising the railway budget, Tripura Transport Minister Manik Dey said Friday that the India-Bangladesh railway project will suffer due to lack of funds."Due to lack of funds, the land acquisition for the India-Bangladesh railway project connecting Tripura would be delayed. The new railway project will also suffer," Dey told reporters here.He said: "In the railway budget (for 2015-16), there was no fund allocated for land acquisition. We want the early completion of the vital railway project."The minister said the total cost of the proposed project was earlier estimated at Rs.271 crore. In addition, Rs.302 crore was needed to acquire around 100 acres of land in India for laying tracks."The preliminary work has started to lay a 15-km railway track to link Agartala with Bangladesh's (southeastern city) Akhaura. The project would be operational at the earliest as the two countries are very serious to execute the plan," a Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) official said.