Mumbai, June 19 -- In a landmark development for Punjab's Majha region, the Government of India has revived the long-pending Qadian-Beas New Railway Line Project.

Elaborating on the Qadian Beas rail link, Ravneet Singh Bittu, Union Minister of state for Railways and Food Processing Industries said that the proposed railway line will connect Qadian in Gurdaspur district with Beas in Amritsar district through a 39.68-kilometre broad-gauge corridor at an estimated cost of approximately Rs 1,400 crore. The project will be executed by Northern Railway. The proposed alignment will pass through the important towns and villages of Qadian, Dhapai, Ghuman, Butala, Sathiala and Beas bringing several areas of the Majha belt onto the railway network ...