The Railway Bridge is ready for commissioning officials said and added that track lane work has been started over the bridge. The tests that have been conducted to check the stability and safety of the world's highest bridge include high-velocity winds test, extreme temperatures test, earthquake-prone test and hydrological impacts due to water level increase. Union Minister of Railway, Communications and Electronic and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw has said that all the tests on Chenab Railway Bridge have been conducted and were successful. To make the bridge ready for commissioning, all the mandatory tests have been conducted successfully. With the passage of time, the construction of the bridge was started again, however, it missed several deadlines. In the year 2008, the contract for constructing one of the highest railway bridges was awarded by the then government. The people of Jammu and Kashmir will get the bridge after two decades of waiting since the project was approved in 2003 but was delayed shortly due to fears of stability and safety. However, the chenab-railway-bridge">Chenab railway bridge is near completion at present as the incumbent regime laid a special focus on the project worth Rs 1400 crore.
The bridge has passed all the mandatory tests. It is part of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Link (USBRL), a dream project worth Rs 35000 crore. The arch bridge between Bakkal and Kauri in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir is 1,178 feet above the riverbed, forming a crucial link from Katra to Banihal. The much-awaited world's highest railway bridge spans the Chenab River at a height of 359 m (1,178 ft) above the river, which is 35 meters taller than Paris' Eiffel Tower. Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir), March 26 (ANI): World's highest railway bridge over the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir is soon to get operational for rail traffic.
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