A K Puthia, General Manager, Northern Railway visited various work sites of the ongoing works of Banihal-Katra section of Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramula Rail Link (USBRL) National Project on Thursday. He was accompanied by S K Kaul, the Chief Administrative Officer/Construction and senior Railway officers of IRCON and officials of HCC associated with the construction. Puthia was apprised of the details of progress of ongoing works of the project there by S K Kaul.
Puthia reviewed the progress of pending works of the project including the site office of Main Tunnel No T-74 R at Banihal.
During the visit, Puthia also discussed the progress of the project with the officers of IRCON at the site of the major Tunnel number T-74 R Khari (Banihal). Later he inspected Tunnel T-48 north portal and Tunnel T-49A south portal in Sumner area.
Going over all the aspects of construction being undertaken, Puthia directed the officers to expedite works to keep up with targeted completion of the Katra-Banihal section by December 2018.
Prior to his visit at the tunnel site, Puthia along with the team of officers from Construction department and Ferozepur Division of Northern Railway did a window trailing of the Srinagar-Banihal section also.