{"id":2466,"date":"2023-02-24T08:09:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T02:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2025-03-25T21:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:10:47","slug":"rishikesh-karnprayag-rail-line-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rishikesh-karnprayag-rail-line-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishikesh-Karnprayag Rail Line Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0About Rishikesh-Karnprayag Rail Line Project :<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>under-construction railway line<\/strong>, which will run from Y<strong>og Nagari Rishikesh railway station in Rishikesh to Karnaprayag in Uttarakhand.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is Indian Railways\u2019 proposed route for the Char Dham Railway to connect the Char Dham pilgrimage of Uttarakhand.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It will help <strong>improve connectivity to the Char Dham shrines of Yamunotri, Gangotri, Badrinath, and Kedarnath<\/strong> in the <strong>Garhwal region<\/strong> of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand.<\/li>\n<li>The rail line is about <strong>125.20 km long<\/strong> and will have <strong>12 stations, 35 bridges<\/strong>, and <strong>17 tunnels<\/strong> along with 105.47 km (84.24%) of the track.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It includes a <strong>15.1 km tunnel between Devprayag and Lachmoli<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The rail line is also part of an <strong>Indian geostrategic initiative<\/strong> to build <strong>infrastructure along the India-China border.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The project is being <strong>monitored on the Government of India\u2019s PRAGATI<\/strong> (Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation) <strong>portal<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What Is the Chardham Mahamarg Vikas Pariyojna?<\/h3>\n<p>It seeks to improve connectivity between four pilgrimage sites \u2013 Kedarnath, Badrinath, Yamunothri, and Gangothri \u2013 in Uttarakhand.The project, which costs around Rs 12,000 crore, seeks to develop approximately 889 km of road in the Himalayan region.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/infrastructure\/railways\/uttarakhand-connecting-chardham-with-train-work-in-full-swing-on-rishikesh-karnaprayag-rail-project-watch\/2706255\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Uttarakhand: Connecting Chardham with train; Work in full swing on Rishikesh-Karnaprayag rail project<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rishikesh-Karnprayag Rail Line Project It is an under-construction railway line in Uttarakhand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}