{"id":42616,"date":"2025-04-20T16:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T10:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=42616"},"modified":"2025-05-28T12:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:28:31","slug":"pir-panjal-railway-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pir-panjal-railway-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) is a historic infrastructure project enhancing Jammu &amp; Kashmir\u2019s connectivity with mainland India. Its completion, marked by the Katra\u2013Sangaldan section, ensures year-round, faster rail access to the Kashmir Valley.<\/p>\n<h2>About Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel<\/strong>, also known as the\u00a0<strong>Banihal Railway Tunnel<\/strong>, is currently\u00a0<strong>India\u2019s longest transportation railway tunnel<\/strong>, measuring\u00a0<strong>11.2 kilometres<\/strong>\u00a0in length.<\/li>\n<li>It is part of the\u00a0<strong>Udhampur\u2013Srinagar\u2013Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL)<\/strong>\u00a0and connects\u00a0<strong>Quazigund in the Kashmir Valley<\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a0<strong>Banihal in Jammu<\/strong>, passing under the\u00a0<strong>Pir Panjal mountain range<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is the only\u00a0<strong>broad-gauge mountain railway tunnel<\/strong>\u00a0in the country and part of the USBRL\u2019s\u00a0<strong>202-km core segment<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Pir Panjal Range<\/strong>, part of the\u00a0<strong>Lesser Himalayas<\/strong>, spans across\u00a0<strong>Himachal Pradesh and Jammu &amp; Kashmir<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key peaks<\/strong>: Notable peaks include\u00a0<strong>Indrasan (6,221 m)<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Deo Tibba (6,001 m)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hydrological significance<\/strong>: It separates the\u00a0<strong>Beas and Ravi Rivers<\/strong>\u00a0from the\u00a0<strong>Chenab River<\/strong>\u00a0and is the origin zone for tributaries of the\u00a0<strong>Jhelum and Indus Rivers<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strategic passes<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Mughal Road<\/strong>\u00a0traverses the\u00a0<strong>Pir Panjal Pass (3,490 m)<\/strong>\u00a0to link\u00a0<strong>Poonch and Rajouri with Srinagar<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Jawahar Tunnel (2.5 km)<\/strong>\u00a0under\u00a0<strong>Banihal Pass<\/strong>\u00a0connects\u00a0<strong>Banihal to Qazigund<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tourism and History<\/strong>: The region hosts famous destinations like\u00a0<strong>Gulmarg,<\/strong>\u00a0and was historically an ancient\u00a0<strong>trade route<\/strong>\u00a0connecting\u00a0<strong>Kashmir with mainland India<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/the-train-to-kashmir-100-years-of-paving-the-path-9953945\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel, also called the Banihal Railway Tunnel, is India\u2019s longest transportation railway tunnel at 11.2 kilometres in length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":42617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[200,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-42616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-pir-panjal-railway-tunnel","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42616","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}