Within a month of the commencement of Operation Sindoor, it was Sankha Naad time for Bharat as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at 1200 hours  flagged off two Vande Bharat Express trains — one from Katra to Srinagar and another from Srinagar to Katra. In addition to being an extraordinary feat of architecture, the Chenab Rail Bridge will improve connectivity between Jammu and Srinagar. The Anji Bridge stands tall as India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge in a terrain that is challenging. The Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) project ensures all-weather connectivity, and the Vande Bharat trains from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra to Srinagar will boost spiritual tourism and create livelihood opportunities." Also taking to X, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw wrote: “Ready to connect Kashmir with every heart of India… Vande Bharat." This latest wonder project of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) fulfils the more than a hundred-year-old dream of Maharaja Pratap Singh to have an all-weather, seamless rail connectivity between the Kashmir Valley and the rest of the country. It also marked the culmination of the audacious dream envisioned by the visionary Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of seamlessly connecting “Kashmir to Kanyakumari", thereby transforming mobility and driving the socio-economic integration of the Kashmir Valley with the rest of Bharat.