{"id":607875,"date":"2023-10-03T10:40:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T05:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=607875"},"modified":"2023-10-03T12:40:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T07:10:34","slug":"worlds-highest-rail-bridge-in-j-ks-reasi-being-developed-as-tourist-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/worlds-highest-rail-bridge-in-j-ks-reasi-being-developed-as-tourist-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s highest rail bridge in J-K\u2019s Reasi being developed as tourist spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s highest steel arch rail bridge over the Chenab River in Reasi district here is being developed as a tourist spot with authorities calling for necessary measures for increasing the visitors\u2019 footfall, officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 1.3-km rail bridge located 359 metres above the riverbed &#8212; 35 metres higher than the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris &#8212; forms a crucial link in the 111-km stretch from Katra to Banihal, which is part of the ongoing prestigious Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Link (USBRL) project.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Secretary A K Mehta along with Deputy Commissioner, Reasi Babila Rakwal and other officers visited the bridge site near Jyotipuram, 42 km from Reasi town, on Saturday, the officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s highest steel arch rail bridge over the Chenab River in Reasi district here is being developed as a tourist spot with authorities calling for necessary measures for increasing the visitors\u2019 footfall, officials said on Sunday. The 1.3-km rail bridge located 359 metres above the riverbed &#8212; 35 metres higher than the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris &#8212; forms a crucial link in the 111-km stretch from Katra to Banihal, which is part of the ongoing prestigious Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Link (USBRL) project. Chief Secretary A K Mehta along with Deputy Commissioner, Reasi Babila Rakwal and other officers visited the [&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":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607875","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=607875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}