Four months after an accident claimed lives of two labourers during the trial run of the Jammu Cable Car Project, the J&K State Cable Car Corporation would be conducting another trial on Mohmaya-Peer Kho stretch of the project after April 28.
Earlier in January, one stretch of the project-BahuFort-Mohmaya was to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, butafter crash of a rescue trolley during the trial run, the inauguration wascancelled.
“Since the work on the Bahu Fort-Mohmaya stretch was put onhold in view of an inquiry ordered by the state government, we continued thework on the stretch and it is almost in the final stage. The trial run would beconducted anytime after April 28,” MD Cable Car Corporation, Shamim Ahmed Wani toldGreater Kashmir,
He said another trial on 1.66-km-long cable car project willbe conducted in May.
According to the Wani, for six months after the successfultrial, the project will be handled by the executing agency through asub-contractor company and then it will be finally handed over to the JKCCC.
The cable car project is being constructed at the estimatedcost of Rs 75 crore. In first phase, the ropeway will extend from Bahu Fort toMahamaya Park and in second it will connect Mahamaya with Peer Kho over riverTawi. The length of the cable car is 1,118 metre.
The ropeway from Bahu Fort to Mahamaya has eight cabins andthat from Mahamaya to Peer Kho has 14 cabins.
Planned in 1995, the project was to be operated from BahuFort to Mubarak Mandi Complex initially. It was modified and relocated whenMubarak Mandi and Bahu Fort were declared protected monuments. The project aimsto divert the pilgrims and tourists visiting the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine andtourist destinations to Jammu district.