Rail Budget: Better Rail connectivity to North East , Jammu and Kashmir
Presenting the Railway Budget 2016-17 in Parliament today he said, Indian Railways have opened the long-awaited Broad Gauge Lumding-Silchar section in Assam, thus connecting Barak Valley with rest of the country.
It also brought Agartala, the capital of Tripura on to the Broad Gauge network. He said, the States of Mizoram and Manipur are also set to come on the Broad Gauge map of the country soon with commissioning of the Kathakal-Bhairabi and Arunachal-Jiribam Gauge Conversion projects.
The Minister said, in J&K, despite difficult terrain and uncertain geology, work on Katra-Banihal section of Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link Project is progressing satisfactorily and 35 Kilometers of tunneling, out of total of 95 Kilometers has been completed successfully.
He said, the decongestion work on the Jalandhar- Jammu line, an important link to the valley, is going on in full swing.
Doubling of two bridges will be commissioned by March 2016, while the other two bridges will be completed by 2016-17, Suresh Prabhu added.
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