Centre to start work on 18 ropeway projects spanning 90 km in next few months - all you need to know

Sources say that some of the ropeway projects will connect Jammu & Kashmir to Leh, the northeast– Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur as well as the southern states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.

TN National Desk

Updated Oct 5, 2022, 17:47 IST

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New Delhi: In a bid to provide better connectivity between difficult terrains, the Central government is set to start work on at least 18 ropeway projects spanning 90 km in the next few months, suggest sources. The government even invited bids for the projects last week.

Ropeways often pose as an attractive mode of transport for tourists in mountainous terrains and one of the projects the Centre is keen on implementing is to connect Srinagar's famous Shankaracharya Temple set atop a hill.

One project will pan over river Krishna to the Srisailam Jyotirlingas temple in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh while another one will see connect the Leh Palace to the rest of the Valley in Ladakh.

The Centre is also expected to start work on a two-kilometre-long ropeway to the Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. Reportedly, tenders have been invited for the project's construction ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's upcoming visit to the temple on October 11.

There are several such projects in the pipeline and the work is likely to kick off soon. Sources say that some of the ropeway projects will connect Jammu & Kashmir to Leh, the northeast– Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur as well as the southern states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.

A 2-km long ropeway project connecting Darshan Deopdi to Shivkhori in Jammu and Kashmir is also being mooted, along with a 12-km-long ropeway in Tamil Nadu from Palani to Kodaikanal.

Another project will be a nearly 7-km-long ropeway to the Kodachadri Hills in Udupi district, Karnataka, and an over 3-km-long one to the Bijli Mahadev Temple in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh.

The government had already asked for tenders to construct a ropeway in Varanasi, one to the Kedarnath temple and one to Hemkund Sahib in Uttarakhand which are expected to be finalised by the end of this year.

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