Means Of Transport Of Jammu and Kashmir for JKSSB,JKAS and other UT Exams

It is a branch off of NH 1.It travels through Jammu and Kashmir’s union territory.

The highway that connects Panchtarni, Chandanwari, Pahalgam, Batakut, Martand, and ends at Khanabal on N.H-44 in J&K begins at the junction with NH-1.

Distance: 90 kilometers (60 mi).

126 km (78mi).

It is a spur road of National Highway 1.

Route:- Baramulla-Rafiabad – Kupwara–Tangdhar.

79 kms (49mi).

NH-144 is a branch of National Highway 44.

Route:- Domel, Katra, Riasi, Pauni and Bamla.

230 km (140 mi)

NH-144A is a spur road of National Highway 44.

Route:- Jammu, Akhnoor, Nowshera, Rajouri, Poonch.

NH 444 is a branch of National Highway 44.

Route: Srinagar – Badgam – Pulwama – Shupiyan – Kulgam – Quazigund.

274 km (153 mi).

It is entirely included inside J&K’s union territory.
It begins near NH44 in Khanabal, travels through NH44 near Batote and ends at NH44 near Achabal, Kokernag, Daksum, Sinthan Pass, Kishtwar, Thathri, and Doda.

57 km

The highway, known as the Jammu Ring Road, runs from its junction with NH-44 near Jammu to its terminus at the NH-44 (Nagrota Bypass) in J&K.

The route that connects the town of Bufliaz in the Poonch district with the Shopian district is 84 kilometers long.Before the Mughals arrived in J&K, the area was referred to as Namak Road.

Because of the well-known Mughal, it became known as the Mughal Road.

This path was used by emperors such as Akbar, Jahangir, Shahjahan, and Aurangzeb, as well as their caravans, to reach Kashmir.

In 1978, Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, the then-chief minister, decided to build the Mughal Road from Bufliaz Poonch to Shopian in order to create a direct link between Rajouri-Poonch and to provide an alternative route to the Kashmir Valley.

It cuts the distance between Shopian and Poonch from 588 km to 126 km and connects Poonch and Rajouri to Srinagar.

Buffliaz, Behramgalla, Chandimarh, Poshana, Chattapani, Peer Ki Gali, Aliabad, Zaznar, Dubjan, Hirpora, and Shopian are among the places the road passes through.

After becoming the Maharaja of J&K State, Raja Gulab Singh of Jammu chose to travel the Jammu–Udhampur Banihal route to Srinagar in order to facilitate the transportation of roval carvans.In his book Maharaja Ranbir Singh, Sukhdev Singh Chadak states that Maharaja gave the order to build a cart route that would connect Jammu with Srinagar via Banihal.

The Banihal Cart Road was opened to the public in 1922, during Mahraja Pratap Singh’s reign.

After becoming a national highway, this road is currently being divided into four lanes (part of NH44).

163 kilometers.
A defense road, it is.

Pathankot to Udhampur via Dhar is the route.

The world’s most amazing mountain road.
132.5 kilometers.
Up until the middle of the 1950s, it was the only trustworthy link that connected Kashmir to the outside world.
During the reign of Maharaja Pratap Singh, the Jhelum Valley Cart Road was finished in 1889 and extended to Srinagar in 1897.
This road saw the launch of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service in 2005.

Situated on National Highway 44 in the Lower Himalayas.2011 saw the beginning of construction, which was finished in 2017.

At 9.28 km (5.8 mi), it is the longest road tunnel in India and the first to have a fully integrated tunnel control system.

It bears the name of Syama Prasad Mookerjee, who founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and was the Minister of Industry and Supply in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s government.

Under the UPA administration, then-CM Omar Abdullah and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad lay the project’s foundation in July 2011.

On April 2, 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the tunnel.
It bypasses Batote, Kud, and Patni Top, cutting the distance and travel time between Jammu and Srinagar by thirty km and two hours.

Situated on NH 44, halfway between Banihāl and Qazigund.It is 2,194 meters (7,198 feet) above sea level.

Built between 1954 and 1956 for year-round surface transportation.

It began operating on December 22, 1956.
The tunnel is 2.85 kilometers (1.77 miles) long.

In 1960, the Border Roads Organization rebuilt the tunnel as part of the BEACON project.
It is constantly manned by military personnel.

The tunnel was off-limits to civilian travel from midnight to eight in the morning until 2009.

It is currently accessible around-the-clock.

This road tunnel connects Banihal with Qazigund and is located at an elevation of 1,790 meters in the Pir Panjal range.Its length is 8.5 kilometers.

Along with the NH44 widening project, this tunnel’s construction began in 2011 and was finished and opened on August 4, 2021.

The 16 km tunnel cuts the trip time from 2-3 hours to 15 minutes between Srinagar and Jammu.

The Nandni tunnels are a set of four tunnels located in the Udhampur district that were finished in 2015.
Their combined length is 1.4 km, and they are situated beneath the Nandni Wild Life Sanctuary.
The tunnels replaced 6.8 km of winding route with 3.6 km of straight bridges and tunnels, cutting down on both travel time and distance between Janmmu and Udhampur.

The goal of the road tunnel project is to provide Srinagar and Kargil with year-round access.It’s being built right now.

It receives its name from the Z shape of the road that it would replace between Sonamarg and Gagangir.

The 6.5 km road tunnel is located on NHI in the Ganderbal district or close to Gagangir.

The tunnel is situated 8,652 feet (2,637 meters) above sea level.

For India, it is very important strategically.

The 14.2 km Zoji La Tunnel connects Sonmarg and Drass town in the Kargil area of the Himalayas, beneath the Zoji La Pass.It’s being built right now.

The tunnel would guarantee year-round road access between Srinagar and Kargil, coupled with the 6.5 km Z-Morh Tunnel, which is located 22 km before the Zoji La tunnel heading towards Srinagar.

Zoji La pass is 3,528 meters (11,578 ft) above sea level.

Operation Bison led to Zoji La’s recapture from Pakistani pirates.

In Jammu & Kashmir, a road tunnel is going to be  built.The 6.8 km tunnel will run through Chattergala and connect the districts of Kathua and Doda in Jammu & Kashmir via Basohli-Bani.

Jammu & Kashmir has two airports, one in Jammu and one in Srinagar, which provide good access to the rest of India.Just 0.2% of all domestic air travel in the nation is conducted in the J&K.

Formally referred to as Jammu Civil Enclave.It is both a public and military airport.

Serving Jammu, it is a domestie airport.

Owned by the Air Force of India.

The airport is situated on Ranbir Singh Pura Road, 8 km (5.0 mi) southwest of Jammu.

It links Jammu to Delhi, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Srinagar, and Chandigarh.

Kishtwar Airstrip is situated in Jammu and Kashmir, India, approximately 3 kilometers to the north of Kishtwar. This location is home to a helipad used by the Indian Army for helicopter operations to remote parts of the districts of Doda and Kishtwar. The Ministry of Civil Aviation launched the UDAN project, which includes the airstrip and is anticipated to aid in promoting tourism in the area.

In UT of J&K, there is a very low road-rail mix because to the steep terrain.It is a primary cause of J&K’s recent decline in industry attraction.

The first railroad in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was constructed in 1897 when the Jammu Sialkot railway line was constructed from Sialkot to Jammu.

Following India’s division in 1947, the Jammu-Sialkot line was blocked, cutting off Jammu and Kashmir from the Indian rail system.

In 1971, work on a railway line connecting Jammu and Pathankot began with the laying of the foundation stone.

In 1975, the refurbished Jammu Tawi railway station reopened, and a rail connection was constructed between Jammu and Pathankot.In the year 1983 A train line between Jammu Tawi and Udhampur started construction in 2005 and was completed by then. 53 kilometers make up its length.

The Jammu-Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramula Railway Link was deemed a national project in 2002 after the railway minister highlighted the necessity for one in 1994.

Its length is 356 kilometers.

There are four sections to the railway line:-

Leg 0, running 53 km from Jammu to Udhampur and completed in April 2005.

Leg 1, running 25 km from Udhampur to Katra. The section was opened in July 2014.

Leg 2, running 111 km from Katra to Banihal. Under construction, expected to open in 2022.

Leg 3 running 135 km from Banihal to Baramulla. The section was opened on 26th June 2013.

It is under the control of Indian Railways’ Northern Zone’s Firozpur Railway Division.The extension of the railway line to Kupwara was approved by the Central Government in November 2018.

PM established a new deadline of August 15, 2022, for this railway line link on December 30, 2020.

In the Reasi district, the Chenab Bridge is an Indian railway arch bridge made of steel and concrete that is currently being built between Bakkal and Kauri.The bridge will be the highest rail bridge in the world when it crosses the Chenab River at a height of 359 meters (1.178 feet) above the river.

It is an Arch Bridge.

It is 1315 m (4314 ft) long.

Also referred to as the Banihal Railway Tunnel.Situated in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pir Panjal Range of the middle Himalayas, the railway tunnel spans 11.215 km (6.969 mi).

It is a segment of the Baramulla-Jammu line.

The rail tunnel cuts the travel time between Quazigund and Banihal from 35 km (22 mi) by road to 17.5 km (10.9 mi) by train, a distance of 17 km (11 mi).

Water transportation was the most popular means of transportation in Kashmir before to the arrival of motor transportation.The name “city of canals” applied to Srinagar.

The Jhelum River has been the most significant interior waterway, flowing through the entire valley.

From Khannabal to Baramulla, it is passable.

The majority of the valley’s significant towns are situated along the River’s banks.

The river was prioritized as the primary way of transporting building materials, firewood, food grains, and other goods during the rule of the former Maharajas.

Barges traveled through the valley on a regular basis.

Doogas are used to transport up to fifty people at once across lakes and up rivers.Stones, wheat, and other large goods are transported by Khoch and Bahach.

The GOI designated Chenab, Jhelum, Indus, and Ravi as *National Waterways” in 2017 in an effort to increase water transport in J&K.

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