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NATION | Rail Connectivity

JAMMU AND KASHMIR’S

INFRASTRUCTURE

TOUCHES NEW HEIGHTS

In addition to opening up new avenues for growth,
infrastructure development links a community’s
aspirations with happiness and hope. Particularly in a
region like Kashmir, where constructing a rail network in
the face of challenging terrain and unfavourable weather
conditions was a problem. Now the rail network from
Kanyakumari to Kashmir has become a reality, thanks to
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s perseverance. PM Modi,
ending decades of wait, inaugurated the Udhampur-
Srinagar-Baramulla rail link, the world’s tallest Chenab rail
bridge and the first cable-stayed bridge, the Anji khad, as a
new marvel of India’s infrastructure…

trong and world-class infrastructure after a long journey. The importance of this
is now not just the identity of the new rail project for the Kashmir valley is also
SIndia but also a proclamation of its evident from the speech given by Jammu
strength. The world saw another picture and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
of India’s strength on June 6 when Prime at the inauguration programme, in which
Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the 272 he said that the foundation of this project
km long Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail was laid when he was studying in the 8th
link project to the nation and also fulfilled standard. Many generations of Jammu and
the country’s dream of a rail network from Kashmir have passed away dreaming of this
Kashmir to Kanyakumari by inaugurating rail connectivity.
the Chenab Rail Bridge and Anji Khad Rail PM Modi emphasized the challenges en-
Bridge. Prime Minister Modi also flagged countered, like the difficult terrain, extreme
off two Vande Bharat trains from Shri Mata weather conditions, and falling rocks in the
Vaishno Devi Katra to Srinagar. With this, mountains, making the project immensely
the train which had reached Jammu in tough and demanding for the engineers and
1972 has finally reached Srinagar directly labourers as well as the government, but

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