The history of the world will become the bridge of Chenab river of JK

Indian Railways is making the world's highest rail bridge on the Chenab river which flows between the high hills of Shivalik in Jammu and Kashmir. 

Indian Railways is going to create a new history soon in the world. This railway bridge is 35 meters high from the Eiffel Tower built in Paris, the capital of France, famous for its architectural beauty and its beauty. 

  This bridge will be about five times higher than Delhi's Qutub Minar. According to the railway, the height of this bridge on the Chenab river will be 359 meters.

     This bridge will be 1315 meters long. Its width will be 13.5 meters. The 25,000 metric tonnes of steel will be used to build this unique bridge. All the railway officials and hundreds of laborers are working day and night to build this bridge. At present, 70% of the work of this bridge has been completed. It is expected that by December 2018 the bridge will be fully ready. About 1198 crores will be spent to build this bridge.

     Looking at the height of this bridge being built between the hills of Shivalik, its design and the engineering used to make it, it would not be wrong to say that after the preparation, this bridge will be an unsurpassed sample of human workmanship, whose example has been given throughout the world for centuries. Will go. 

  The bridge being built on Chenab river is the most important part of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail link project. This bridge will connect Jammu with Srinagar. In this sense, the bridge is very important. The Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link project is divided into four parts.

    The first is the railway route from Udhampur to Katra, which is 25 kilometers long. The rail route has already been completed in July 2014 and the movement of trains has already started. The second is Katra's railway route of Banihal, which is 111 kilometers long.

    The highest bridge being built on Chenab river is part of the same route. According to the railway, this route will be fully prepared by 2021. Third, the 18-km long Qazigund route from Banihal which has been completed in June 2013 and the train has also started running on this route. The fourth is Qazigund's 118 km part of Baramulla.

    This route too has been completed in 2009. Konkan Railway Corporation, a unit of Indian Railways, is constructing this bridge on Chenab. The world's best bridge experts were consulted for the design and construction of this bridge made of steel. Their help was taken. This area of ​​Chenab river is in between the inaccessible hills. Constructing a bridge between the skewed hills has always been a major challenge.

  The Kashmir Valley also did not create lesser challenges in the construction of this bridge. Snowfall and cold winds created difficult conditions for officers and laborers to build this bridge. This is the reason why the Indian Railways had to get the help of bridge construction experts from countries like Finland, Germany and Denmark to build this bridge.

    The final design of this bridge is ready after consultation with intensive survey and knowledge of the entire area.The Chenab Bridge has been designed in such a way that the strong winds blowing at the speed of 266 kmph can not even be able to make it to its hair.

   The bridges are equipped with sensors that detect the speed of air, which will stop the operation of the train automatically in any emergency. Temperatures of minus 20 degrees or temperature of 45 degrees in hot summer can not harm any of the steel in this bridge.

   Not only this, the danger of earthquake was also taken into account while making the bridge. In terms of earthquake, the country has been divided into five parts and this area of ​​Chenab river comes in Seismic zone 4 in order to get the earthquake. But to build this railway bridge, the tests were done on the basis of Seismic Zone-5. 

  This means that if there is an earthquake of 8 intensity on the Richter scale, then there will be no damage to this bridge.The most important thing is that the paint used for the panting of this bridge is not a simple paint. According to the railway, the average age of this paint is 15 to 20 years. The effect of sunshine, rain and snow on this paint is equal to no.

   This unmatched bridge in Jammu will connect Jammu and Srinagar. In this case, the bridge will be very important, so the rail bridge can also be targeted at the target of the intestines. Keeping this threat in mind, the railway has made this bridge blast proof. Railways claim that even if the bridge is attacked with the pressure of 40 tons of explosives, it will not harm anybody. 

  Railways are telling the age of this bridge 120 years, but if it is maintained properly, this bridge will work more than 120 years. With the construction of this railway bridge, Jammu and Kashmir will be able to stay connected with the rest of the country for 12 months every season, because due to heavy snowfall in the winter, it often closes the road and many areas of Kashmir including Srinagar are cut off from the country. Go. 

   Also, after the Chenab Bridge was built, it will take 4 to 5 hours to go from Jammu to Srinagar. In such a situation, due to the formation of this bridge, the tourism of Kashmir will be encouraged, the economic condition of the people living there will also improve. 

    For the project, the people whose land has acquired more than 75 per cent, a member of the family has been given government jobs. Not only this, the railway has given 200km to the Chenab in the project.