BANIHAL: Kashmir’s dream of an all-weather surface link turned into reality today after Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi inaugurated a rail link between Banihal and Qazigund in the Valley.
He addressed a rally in Banihal hours later. Here are the highlights, taken from the NDTV news channel:
Today we give Jammu and Kashmir an engineering marvel
People working on this faced a lot of geographical challenges while constructing this.
This is not only an engineering marvel but it is a link that will connect the state to rest of the country
Products made here will reach other parts of the country easily and vice versa
This will also provide employment in the state
We will keep connecting this railway line to other railway lines of the country
