RAIL PROJECT IN J &K BY KONKAN RAILWAY

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RAJYA SABHA

The work of construction of rail line from km 30 to km 120 between Katra-Qazigund of Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla project has been entrusted to Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd.

The funding of Jammu-Udhampur section is being done through budgetary support of the Railways. Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla has been declared as ‘National Project’ and funds are being provided by Ministry of Finance as an additionality to the normal budgetary support for Railways. The project is targetted for completion by August 15, 2007.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Bandaru Dattatraya in a written reply to a question from Shri Raju Parmar in the Rajya Sabha today.