INFRASTRUCTURE - India builds the “most challenging railway project on earth”

The 900-kilometer project will link the Himalayan foothills to the Kashmir Valley.
"The railway will integrate the restive region with the rest of India," said Vinoo Mathur, general manager of Northern Railway, which will operate the line. The completed railway line will also bring with it the promise of economic changes from reviving the area's once-thriving tourist industry, destroyed by armed Muslim militants against Indian rule in 1989.

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