The Railways Ministry has approved Final Location Survey of five lines, all of which fall in Kashmir division while survey of no new line has been approved in Jammu division.
This information was given by Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw today in a comprehensive reply in Lok Sabha in response to a joint question by BJP MPs including Jugal Kishore Sharma (Jammu-Poonch), Bidyut Baran Mahato (Jamshedpur) and Jamyang Tsering Namgyal (Ladakh).
As per the reply given by Vaishnaw, Final Location Survey of five lines has been sanctioned in Jammu and Kashmir. The lines include doubling of Baramulla-Banihal section (135.5 kilometers), Baramulla-Uri (50 kilometers), Sopore-Kupwara (33.7 kilometers), Awantipora-Shopian (27.6 kilometers) and Anantnag-Bijbehara-Pahalgam (77.5 kilometers).
Significantly, all these rail lines fall in Kashmir division