Nidae Kashmir90% work on USBRL project completed
Srinagar, Jan 19 :The train is finally chugging towards Kashmir, with 90 percent of the construction on the railway link connecting Kashmir to the rest of the country complete.The Indian Railways announced that the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL), a project to build a broad-gauge railway route through the Himalayas, is now 90 percent complete.
Connecting Kashmir to Kanniyakumari: Almost There!” said an official tweet by the Ministry of Railways.Updating about the work progress, the tweet mentioned that the 162.6 km of total 163.88 km of tunnel mining under the Katra-Banihal Section is complete while 31.3 km of total 117.7 km of track laying has been accomplished.Moreover, the construction of 21 major bridges of a total of 26 and 11 minor bridges is over.
Three portions of the train line, each measuring 25 km from Udhampur to Katra, 18 km from Banihal to Qazigund, and 118 km from Qazigund to Baramulla, have been constructed.
Between Jammu-Udhampur-Katra in the Jammu region and Baramulla-Banihal in Kashmir, trains run regularly.the rail connection to Kashmir has been delayed for more than 20 years and has witnessed cost escalation by Rs 25,449 crore during 241 months.(KNA)
