![]() Km between Katra and Banihal is under progress at a rapid pace, the officials said. Out of the total 272 kilometres of the USBRL project, 161 km has been commissioned and operationalised. Once completed, it will hugely benefit trade, tourism and economy in Kashmir as it will remain operational without any disruption by weather. It remains closed for several days or weeks during the hostile weather conditions in winter every year. The businessman who spearheaded the campaign had lost his son in the crash.Īn old highway between Srinagar and Jammu, which is now being developed into a modern 4-lane highway with the ongoing constructions between Banihal and Nashri, has also consumed thousands of human lives in road accidents. Then, civil society led by a Sopore businessman collected money and made all efforts to recover the bodies. At the peak of winter, then State or Central governments had no resources to manage recovery of the casualties. It was on the way to Jammu from Srinagar. The worst civilian tragedy in Pir Panjal mountain range occurred on 7 February, 1966 when a Fokker F-27 Friendship 200 leased to Indian Airlines crashed near the infamous Hoon Heng cliff killing all the 37 passengers including four crew members. Another Antonov crashed near Kishtwar on Makilling all the 17 personnel and crew on board. The Banihal mountains consumed another Dakota on May 8, 1957, a Packet C-119 on January 1, 1963, and an Illyushin-14 on Februkilling 13 persons including a Major General. The worst Defence tragedy happened during a war with the Pakistani tribal raiders on 31 October 1947 when a Douglas C-47 Skytrain (D-3) aircraft crashed over the Pir Panjal cliffs causing the death of 22 soldiers and 3 pilots. It has been built in the most hostile Pir Panjal mountain range which has consumed many lives of humans and livestock in the past. Several challenges were encountered in the course of the construction such as shear zone, perched aquifer, highly jointed rock mass, and heavy ingress of water, among others. T-49 is a twin-tube tunnel comprising the main tunnel (12.75 km) and escape tunnel (12.89 kms) connected with 33 cross-passages, the officials said. The elevation of the south end at Sumber is approximately 1400.5 metres and of the north end 1558.84 metres. The official said that it is a modified horseshoe shape tunnel connecting the Sumber station yard on the south side and tunnel T-50 after crossing bridge number 4 over Khoda nullah on the north side at Khoda village. The 12.89 km tunnel, which is the longest escape tunnel of India, on the 111 km under-construction Banihal-Katra railway line in Jammu and Kashmir was completed on Thursday, officials said. “This is the longest escape tunnel of India and its line and level are precisely achieved,” he asserted. “The construction work of escape tunnel T-13 for the longest rail tunnel T-49, between Khari and Banihal stations of Katra under USBRL project, was completed on Thursday after successfully negotiating major cavity formation,” a senior official associated with the ambitious project said. The breakthrough came with a blast which marked the start of the escape tunnel. According to Railway officials, the escape tunnel ‘T-13’ has been constructed to facilitate rescue operations in case of an emergency during construction and operation of the main tunnel. This is the fourth tunnel on the Banihal-Katra track following the 12.75 km long T-49 tunnel (until now the longest tunnel of the Indian Railways), which was completed in January 2022. Govt of India planned the 272 Km long #Railway Line from Udhampur to Baramulla joining the #Kashmir valley with the Indian Railways network under #Udhampur-Srinagar- #Baramulla Rail link Project (USBRL).
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