The Chenab Bridge, which is 359 metres (about 109 feet) tall and was built by India, is the tallest railway bridge in the world.
The bridge, which being built above the Chenab River in India’s contentious Jammu and Kashmir area, is about 35 metres (nearly 10 feet) taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the capital of France.
The Ministry of Railways announced in a March news release that the bridge in northern India, which has been under construction for decades, will be open to the public by the end of December 2023 or the beginning of January 2024.
A larger project to connect the Indian Railway network to the Kashmir Valley includes the 1,315 meter-long (4,314 foot) bridge.
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In addition to the Chenab Bridge, the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) project involves what will become the country’s longest transportation tunnel and Indian Railways’ first cable bridge.
For India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who swept to power in 2014 on a ticket of nationalism and a promise of future greatness, investments in infrastructure like the Chenab Bridge and the broader rail link project can be seen as a powerful tool for social integration and political influence, connecting disparate regions with key cities.
“The bridge and the greater connectivity it’s meant to create will be projected by New Delhi as another big victory for the region’s development,” said Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center.
Linking Kashmir with the rest of India by train will specifically boost the region’s industrial and agricultural sectors by allowing all-weather rail connectivity between the valley and the rest of India, experts say.
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