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Rethinking Pahalgam Railway Without Disturbing Orchards!

The Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Khanabal–Baltal 2/4-laning road corridor already exits and it had been submitted to National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) in January 2024. In planning terms, that document did more than propose a wider road – it formally acknowledged an old truth: south Kashmir already has a defined mobility spine running from Bijbehara and Anantnag into the Lidder valley and onward toward the Amarnath axis.

Yet when the discussion around rail connectivity to Pahalgam surfaced, the debate quickly assumed that a railway would have to carve out an entirely new route through orchards and fields. No one bothered to check the truth, alignment, and route, and the public conversation became a choice between apples and infrastructure. It never had to be.

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Across the world, mountain regions faced with the same dilemma rarely open a fresh scar across the landscape. Instead, they follow a far simpler principle: place road and rail in the same corridor so the valley is disturbed only once.

The Bijbehara–Pahalgam road is not untouched countryside. Over decades it has seen widening, slope cutting, drainage channels, shop lines,........

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