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| In first week, around 500 people enjoy ride in Jammu Ropeway | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 10: Around 500 people have enjoyed the ride in the first week of the commencement of Jammu Ropeway Project here.
Sharing the details, Project Manager Rakesh Bhat on Saturday said that in one-week of its commencement as many as 498 people enjoyed the ropeway ride.
“Of total 498 in a week, the highest 205 persons enjoyed the ride on last Sunday,” said Mr Bhat.
He, however, said that on weekdays, around 30 to 50 people visited the spot to enjoy the ride.
The first phase of the much-awaited Jammu Ropeway Project (JRP) commenced its commercial operations on October 3, (Saturday) amid adequate COVID-19 precautions.
The second phase is expected to open later this year.
On completion, the project will link three ancient temples - Bawe Wali Mata, Mahamaya and Peer kho - and is expected to give a boost to religious tourism as the three places are very famous among the devotees particularly those visiting Jammu, the city of temples, from across the country.
When it was proposed back in 1995, the project was to be operated from Bahu Fort to Mubarak Mandi Complex. Later it was modified and the route relocated when both places were declared protected monuments.
The cable car corporation successfully conducted the trial run of the first phase of the project in April last year.
The 1.66-km-long cable car project has two phases, first from Bahu Fort to Mahamaya Park and the second from Mahamaya to Peer Kho over the Tawi river.
The second phase has a total length of 1,118 metres.
The ropeway from Bahu Fort to Mahamaya has eight cabins, and the one from Mahamaya to Peer Kho 14 cabins.
The total number of towers in section one (Peer Kho to Mahamaya) and section two (Bahu Fort to Mahamaya) are nine and the critical components are all imported.
The work on the execution of the Rs 75-crore project started in 2016 and the first phase was completed last year.
It was inaugurated on July 27 this year but due to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the commercial operation got delayed.
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