{"id":565678,"date":"2023-03-25T11:24:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T05:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=565678"},"modified":"2023-03-25T12:44:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T07:14:48","slug":"chenab-bridge-may-be-ready-this-month-minister-ashwini-vaishnaw-to-visit-spot-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chenab-bridge-may-be-ready-this-month-minister-ashwini-vaishnaw-to-visit-spot-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Chenab Bridge may be ready this month; minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to visit spot this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, the world\u2019s highest railway bridge on the river Chenab in Jammu and Kashmir is likely to be ready by the end of this month. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw is visiting the bridge for an inspection this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Vaishnaw will also inspect the ongoing works of the tunnel, which has for long been throwing up unique geological challenges to the engineering team, thanks to the rock composition of the young Himalaya. The Chenab Bridge, however, is complete.<\/p>\n<p>The Chenab Bridge, hanging with its steel and concrete structure \u2014 the showpiece, half-a-kilometre-long steel arch that defines it\u2013 between Bakkal and Kauri, is 1,178 feet above the riverbed underneath, making it the world\u2019s highest railway bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, the world\u2019s highest railway bridge on the river Chenab in Jammu and Kashmir is likely to be ready by the end of this month. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw is visiting the bridge for an inspection this weekend. Vaishnaw will also inspect the ongoing works of the tunnel, which has for long been throwing up unique geological challenges to the engineering team, thanks to the rock composition of the young Himalaya. The Chenab Bridge, however, is complete. The Chenab Bridge, hanging with its steel and concrete structure \u2014 the showpiece, half-a-kilometre-long steel arch that defines it\u2013 between Bakkal and Kauri, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}