PM Narendra Modi Likely To Flag Off Train To Kashmir On June 6

Jammu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is more likely to flag off the teach from Katra the town to Kashmir Valley on June 6. “The Prime Minister could flag off the Vande Bharat train services from Katra in Jammu division to Baramulla in the Valley on June 6 as all preparations for the train services have been given the final touches,” officers mentioned.

The Vande Bharat teach provider to Kashmir used to be scheduled to begin on April 19, however the inauguration through the PM used to be postponed because of inclement climate. The Vande Bharat teach provider might be really useful to the Amarnath Yatra pilgrims because the blockade of the Jammu-Srinagar freeway incessantly halts the passage of the pilgrims.

This 12 months’s Amarnath Yatra begins on July 3 and can finish on August 9 after 38 days. Officials mentioned if want arises, particular trains will also be run to transparent the frenzy of the pilgrims, particularly in case of the freeway blockade.

The Prime Minister will flag off the teach from Katra to Baramulla and nearly from Baramulla to Katra. The PM will deal with a rally at Katra Stadium and in addition consult with the sector’s very best railway bridge over the Chenab river, along with the primary cable-stayed bridge at the railway observe in Reasi district, earlier than flagging off teach products and services from Katra.

For the existing, the teach will run from Katra to Baramulla, however after of entirety of enlargement paintings at Jammu Railway Station, together with the rise within the selection of platforms, the teach to the Valley will get started operations from Jammu to Baramulla through August to September this 12 months.

There might be no direct teach from Delhi or every other section to Kashmir at the present. The passengers should disembark at Katra and alter trains. Later, the similar procedure will shift to Jammu.

During Operation Sindoor, a teach sporting Army squaddies used to be operated at the observe as much as Srinagar. A recent safety audit of the observe used to be performed after the Pahalgam terror assault, and all problems had been addressed with the deployment of extra police group of workers and strengthening of infrastructure.

Out of the overall 272 km, the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) mission, 209 km used to be commissioned in stages, with the primary segment of the 118 km Qazigund-Baramulla segment commissioned in October 2009, adopted through 18 km Banihal-Qazigund in June 2013, 25 km Udhampur-Katra in July 2014 and 48.1 km lengthy Banihal-Sangaldan stretch in February remaining 12 months.

The paintings at the 46 km Sangaldan-Reasi segment used to be additionally finished in June remaining 12 months, leaving a complete of a 17 km stretch between Reasi and Katra, which used to be finished just about 3 months in the past, resulting in the beginning of various trials of trains, together with that of the Vande Bharat.

The mission concerned a value of Rs 41,000 crore. On January 4, a a hit trial run of an electrical teach used to be performed at the Katra-Banihal segment.

The Railways have performed a chain of trials over the last few months on quite a lot of segments of the observe, together with the 2 main milestones of the Anji Khad and Chenab bridges.

Kashmir gets a brand new specifically designed Vande Bharat Express Train. This new semi-high-speed teach will attach Katra and Srinagar.

The new semi-high-speed teach connecting Katra and Srinagar would be the 3rd such teach in Jammu and Kashmir.

The inauguration of the teach provider from Katra to Baramulla and from Jammu to Baramulla earlier than the year-end will realise a greater than 70-year-long dream of the folk of the Valley.

The teach to Kashmir will see a brand new break of day for horticulture, industries, schooling, items shipping and the ease of the average guy.

The dream of a rail hyperlink between Kashmir to Kenyakumari is more likely to transform a truth on June 6, when Prime Minister Modi will write but any other superb bankruptcy within the developmental historical past of Jammu and Kashmir.