Prime Minister Narendra Modi will start more development projects worth more than £46,000 crore in Katra in Jammu and Kashmir and inaugurates the Chenab bridge, today, the highest railway bridge in the world, 6 June. On this occasion, Modi also marks Vande Bharat trains between Katra and Srinagar.
This will be the first visit to Prime Minister Modi in Jammu and Kashmir after the “Sindoor Operation” – Indian accurate strikes in terrorist camps in Pakistan launched on May 7 in response to the terrorist attack of Pahalgam, killed by 26 people, mostly tourists.
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“Tomorrow, June 6, is a really special day for my sisters and brothers Jammu and Kashmir,” PM Modi said in the paper of June.
The PMO statement stated that Modi will start more development projects worth £46,000 crore in Katra, a base camp for pilgrims attending Mata Vaishno Devi.
Modi will start the Chenab bridge at 11 am. He then visits and starts the Anji Bridge and then around 12:00 by Vande Bharat trains.
Chenab Bridge as an architectural miracle
He chased the bridge Chenab as an architectural miracle and said he was 359 meters above the river. It is a 1,315 meters long steel arch bridge created to withstand seismic and wind conditions.
“The key impact of the bridge will increase the connectivity between Jammu and Srinagar. It will take about three hours to travel between Katra and Srinagar through the Vande Bharat train, reducing the current travel time by two or three hours.”
The Prime Minister will also open the Anji Bridge, the first Indian railway bridge for cables to serve the nation in difficult terrain, he added.
Other projects to be launched include the project 272 km Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (usbrl).
Built for the price around £43 780 crore, includes 36 tunnels (spanning 119 km) and 943 bridges. The project creates trouble -free railway connectivity between the Kashmir valley and the rest of the country aimed at transforming regional mobility and management of socio -economic integration.
In a large increase in the connectivity of the last mile, especially in the border areas, Modi lays the foundation stone and starts various road projects, the statement is said.
The Prime Minister also lays the foundation stone of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute for Medical Perfection in Katra worth £350 crore. It will be the first medical university in the district of Reasi, which significantly contributes to the infrastructure of healthcare in the region.
The first train connecting the valley with the rest of India
Modi will mark from the girl’s Katra-Srinagar Vande Bharat Express- the first train connecting the Kashmir valley with the rest of the country. On this occasion, it will also be practically described by the train from Srinagar to Katra.
It will take about 3 hours of traveling between Katra and Srinagar over the Vande Bharat train, which will shorten the current travel time by 2-3 hours.
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In the valley of Kashmir and between Jammu, Udhampur and Catra, trains between Banihal and Baramulla ran in the Jammu area. However, the Katra-Banihal section of 111 km was the most difficult created due to difficult terrain.
Today’s event would mean the first trains that move between Kashmir and the rest of the country. The first passenger train leaves Delhi and reaches Srinagar through the pilgrimage city of Katra.
Although the idea of connecting the Kashmir valley with the rest of the country of the train was hosted at the age of 70 during the work of the former Prime Minister Indire Gandhi, the project was officially sanctioned at the Cabinet meeting, chaired by its successor, PV Narasimha Rao.
The work seriously on the railway connection began in 2002, when the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government sanctioned funds to obtain land for the project.
Main Minister Omar Abdullah said he had heard from the train to Kashmir since he was at school.
“If I say I was waiting for a long time this day, it would not be exaggerated. This project began when I was at school, maybe in class 7 or 8. Today my children have also completed their education and are now working,” Abdullah told reporters at Katra railway station.
Ambitious railway connection Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla
The Istampur-Srinagar-Baramulla (USBL) railway connection is one of the most ambitious railway projects carried out in independent India, PIB said.
Stretching 272 kilometers over the harsh Himalayas was the project built for £43 780 crore, he said.
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The project includes 36 tunnels that cover 119 kilometers and 943 bridges that combine valleys, ridges and mountain passes together.
Designed to overcome the demanding geography of the region, connects distant areas with a national railway network and denotes a new chapter in the field of mobility, business and tourism for Jammu and Kashmir.
The rail connection will end the break in the surface transmission between cashmere and the rest of the country, which always occurs in winter or at any time the weather becomes unfavorable.
It also ends the hike in air leaves, which fires whenever the motorway Srinagar-Jammu is closed due to the whims of the weather.
Tomorrow is 6 June. A truly special day for my sisters and brothers Jammu and Kashmir.
Vande Bharat Express is to run between Katra and Srinagar, shorten the travel time and prepare a new scale in comfort for people from Jammu and Kashmir.
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