Title - India's longest rail tunnel

Nine years ago, when Sharanappa Yalal relocated to Kashmir as project manager of the 11-km Pir Panjal rail tunnel, the longest proposed in India, most locals told him it was never going to happen.Yet after a three-year delay, technical snags and several complications, the Rs 800-crore (project is to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday. Besides the one of its kind tunnel, the Rs 1,800-crore 240 Mw Uri hydroelectric project, situated very close to the Line of Control or LoC, is also expected to be declared ready soon.