By Admin 
World Highest Railway Bridge in JK: The dream of connecting the country to the Kashmir Valley by rail route will be fulfilled on Friday (June 6, 2025), when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the rail from Katra in Jammu to Srinagar. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav called it the result of PM Modi’s strong will.
Railway Minister Ashwini reached Vaishno-Katra before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir on Friday (June 6). After taking stock of all the preparations in Katra, he said that the day of Friday (June 6) is historic as Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate the railway line of Srinagar to the nation on Friday. He said that in terms of historical and engineering, two big bridge Chenab’s bridge and Anji bridge will also be inaugurated on Friday (June 6).
The dream of connecting Jammu and Kashmir to railway is fulfilled
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said, “The big dream for decades, the dream of connecting Jammu and Kashmir to the railway line will be fulfilled. For this, two Vande Bharat Trains which have been specially designed.
Ashwini Vaishnav said, “Devotees of Mata Vaishno Devi in Katra will get great facility to visit Kashmir. The station of Jammu is being built in a separate format. To go on high altitude at Jammu station will use brizing technology used in many countries of the world to go on high altitude. Bridging will mean normal Altitude Eye will be in a vehicle.”
He said, “As in other countries of the world, the arrangement was done at Jammu railway station. Under this arrangement, two platforms will have two face-to-face vehicles and its correspondence will be seat-to-seat.”
Ashwini Vaishnav said, “The Vande India, which the Prime Minister will flag off, is from Srinagar to Jammu from Jammu. Because work is currently going on at Jammu railway station, which will be completed by September. In September, when platform number five and six will be ready at Jammu railway station, then this Vande Bharat will run from Jammu to Srinagar. This train will run from Katra.
A unique sample of Chenab Bridge Technology- Ashwini Vaishnav
The Railway Minister said, “Chenab’s bridge is a unique specimen of a technology. There were many challenges in making it. If we look at the technical parameters of this bridge, then the design of this bridge is 260 per kilometer per kilometer wind speed and its design according to Zone 5. This bridge is designed with a complex process. This bridge is designed. Is.” He said that 30,000 tonnes of steel has been used to build this bridge. It is the world’s highest railway Arch bridge. “
Travel to Chenab Bridge by train will be memorable for passengers
Ashwini Vaishnav said, “Cable’s bridges are built on many places on the highway, but only the bridge is formed for the railway for the first time. The reason is that there is a lot of load or load in the railway. The normal load of the truck running on the highway is 40 to 50 tons but the train weighs around 4,000 tons, so the railway cable bridge is not normally made.”
He said that this cable bridge was built because there was no place to make pillars supporting the bridge. This journey is also memorable because there is a journey of 111 km from Katra to Banihal, in which 97 km journey will be decided from the tunnel.
Dream is being fulfilled by PM Modi’s political will
The Railway Minister said, “A new way of tunling has been invented to create this tunnel, due to which the Himalayan tunling method is called in the language of tunling. When such a big work is to be done, political will power is very important. In the time of 2004 to 2014, the work was done in the plane area in the time of 2004 to 2014, but in the difficult areas it was not taken in the difficult areas. I took it, so this dream is being fulfilled today. “
PM Modi will launch projects worth more than 46,000 crore
In a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), it was said that the Prime Minister will launch several development projects worth more than Rs 46,000 crore in Katra. There is a famous Mata Vaishno Devi temple in Katra itself. Describing Chenab Bridge as an unmatched work of architecture, the statement said that it is at an altitude of 359 meters from the river. It is a 1,315 meter long ‘Steel Arch Bridge’, which has been prepared with a view to encounter earthquake and air. ”
The statement said, “A significant impact of the bridge will have to increase the contact between Jammu and Srinagar. It will take only 3 hours to travel between Katra and Srinagar through the Vande Bharat train running on the bridge, which will reduce the time of the existing journey by two to three hours. ”
At a cost of 43,780 crores USBRL Project will be inaugurated
According to the PMO, among the other projects which are to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister, the 272 km long Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) project is. It is built at a cost of about Rs 43,780 crore and has 36 tunnels (extending up to 119 km) and 943 bridges. The project establishes uninterrupted rail connectivity between the Kashmir Valley and the rest of the country in every season, which aims to change the landscape of regional mobility and promote socio-economic integration.
Medical institute will be laid the foundation stone in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir
Prime Minister Modi will also lay the foundation stone of various road projects and inaugurate various road projects to promote connectivity to the end in the border areas. The Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone of ‘Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence’ in Katra, costing more than Rs 350 crore. It said that this will be the first medical college in Reasi district, which will contribute significantly to the infrastructure of health care in the region.