The Bilaspur-Mandi-Leh railway is a proposed high-elevation all weather Indian Broad gauge 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) railway track that will connect Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, to Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, to Leh, Jammu and Kashmir in Republic of India.
The total expected length of Bilaspur-Mandi-Leh railway is almost 498 km (309 miles). By its completion it is expected to become the highest railway track in the world overtaking the current record of China's Qinghai-Tibet Railway. Railway Budget 2011-2012 presented by Mamata Banerjee announced that this project will be taken up in next Budget 2012-2013. Railway Budget 2012-2013 presented by Dinesh Trivedi announced that the survey of this project is completed and it is currently sent to Planning Commission for appraisal.
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more... new Railway Minster of India, Mukul Roy, some days after Railway Budget 2012-2013 was presented by former minister Dinesh Trivedi announced that he is also pursuing the inclusion of 4 critical projects as national project which includes Bilaspur-Mandi-Leh Railway, Jammu-Poonch, Tanakpur-Bageshwar, Rupai Parshuram Kund lines.
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