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Country’s ‘first cable-stayed’ Indian Railways bridge will connect Katra and Reasi in Jammu and Kashmir. Recently, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said that the ambitious project of Indian Railways is being constructed with superior technology and engineering excellence.It is being developed by Konkan Railway Corporation Limited, which is a Government of India undertaking. The cable-stayed railway bridge is a part of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) project.

Recently, Pakistan and China signed an agreement for the 700 MW Azad Pattan hydel power project on the Jhelum River in the Sudhoti district of PoK.It is a run-of-the-river project with a reservoir located near Muslimabad village.It will be commissioned by 2024.It will be developed on the ‘Build, Own, Operate, Transfer (BOOT)’ model and will be transferred to the government of Pakistan after 30 years.