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Modi Inaugurates Ambitious Rail Project Connecting Kashmir to Indian Plains
- On June 13, 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Chenab Rail Bridge and several other infrastructure projects in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
- The project, approved in 2002 and with construction commencing in 2017, sought to establish a railway link between the Kashmir Valley and the Indian plains.
- The Chenab Rail Bridge is a 1,315-meter-long steel arch structure situated 359 meters above the river, making it the tallest railway arch bridge globally and engineered to withstand seismic activity and strong winds.
- Modi highlighted that the new railway line will provide reliable year-round access, promote religious tourism, generate new job opportunities, and reduce the travel duration between Katra and Srinagar to approximately three hours with the introduction of Vande Bharat trains.
- The railway is expected to improve regional connectivity and development despite ongoing Kashmir militancy and recent India-Pakistan tensions, with Modi pledging, “I promise you, I won't let developmental activities stop in Kashmir.
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India has opened the world's highest train bridge and a railway line connecting the disputed Kashmir region to the rest of the country. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised the railway would bring new economic opportunities to the region and lashed out at Pakistan, again blaming it for an attack on Indian tourists in Kashmir in April.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated a controversial railway in the disputed Kashmir region, one of many mega-projects the government in New Delhi has plowed into the region, which for decades has been the center of a bloody feud between India and Pakistan.
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