PM Modi To Inaugurate World’s Highest Chenab Railway Arch Bridge In J&K

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Jammu and Kashmir today and lay the foundation stone, inaugurating and dedicating multiple development projects worth over 46 thousand crore rupees to the nation at Katra.

As part of it, Prime Minister Modi will dedicate the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) project to the nation. The 272-kilometre USBRL project has been constructed at a cost of around 44 thousand crore rupees. 

The USBRL project is a fully



electrified section and comprises 36 tunnels and 943 bridges. The Chenab Bridge, the world’s highest railway arch bridge and India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge – Anji Khad Bridge, which are part of the USBRL, will also be inaugurated by the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister will also flag off two Vande Bharat Express trains – one from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra to Srinagar and the other from Srinagar to Katra. However, the regular services of Vande Bharat trains between Katra and Srinagar will commence from Saturday.