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The first section linking Udhampur to Katra and the third section of the railway line between Banihal and Baramulla have been completed and both these sections are operational.

In two years, Kashmir would be connected to the rest of India through the Indian Railways network. The work for the most difficult 111 km long section of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail link project will be completed by December 2022 that would provide railway connectivity to Kashmir.

Northern Railway GM Ashutosh Gangal, was cited in a PTI report saying that the work on this undertaking is going on going all out and it will be finished by 2022-end. The 272 km long queue is being embraced by Northern Railways at an expected expense of Rs 28,000 crore. The primary area connecting Udhampur to Katra and the third part of the railroad line among Banihal and Baramulla have been finished and both these segments are operational. To finish the most troublesome part of Katra-Banihal, the work is going according to plan.

As per Gangal, the public carrier was attempting to guarantee that the railroad venture gets completed according to the booked time. The COVID-19 pandemic circumstance has influenced the task’s work, he concedes. The 25 km long Udhampur-Katra segment, 18 km long Banihal-Qazigund segment, and 118 km long Qazigund-Baramulla area have been authorized as of now. The 111 km long Katra-Banihal area, which is the final segment, is now under execution. The GM further said that out of 174 km of passages on this segment, 126 km has just been done.

As indicated by the authorities of Northern Railways, maybe, the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail connect venture is the most troublesome new rail line venture attempted by the public carrier. The task has been partitioned into three sub-segments for execution purposes. The most troublesome stretch of this rail line venture, Katra-Qazigund leg, and its arrangement which is 129 km long goes through the scopes of Patni and Pir Panjal.

This arrangement requires the development of upwards of 62 vital and significant scaffolds and minor extensions, other than the improvement of 35 passages, totaling 103 km length bringing the level of the all out length of the passages’ arrangement to about 80%. As indicated by the authorities, this venture is exceptionally imperative to give a dependable and elective transportation framework to J&K to join Kashmir Valley to the nation’s rail organization. In the year 2002, thinking about the significance of this undertaking, it was proclaimed as a public task.

A year ago in the long stretch of November, PM Modi considered the advancement of this rail connect venture and gave express directions to specialists to assist the task work and complete it by one year from now. The cutoff time of 2020 was fixed by the Prime Minister for the driven task connecting Srinagar to the Indian Railways organization.