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under the central scheme, is the
Varanasi ropeway urban mobility
project. It has been aligned with
the Indian Railways such that
passengers disembarking at the
Varanasi railway station enter the
ropeway facility after crossing a
foot overbridge. They can directly
reach Kashi Vishwanath temple
after three stations in about
3.85 kms of the length of the
alignment.
Adopting mono-cable
detachable gondola (MDG)
technology, the capacity of this
project is 3,000 passengers
per hour, with a capacity to
transport one lakh passengers
every day. The advantage lies in
reduced environment emissions
and decongestion of the already
packed lanes of the city.
One of the landmark projects
is the 13 km long Sonprayag to
Kedarnath ropeway which will be
one of longest projects globally. It
will be developed on the world’s
most advanced technology
available now - the tri-cable
or 3S gondola lift, a cable car
system that unites the benefits
of a gondola lift with those of a
reversible cable car system. Other
ropeways under implementation
include Bijli Mahadev (2.32 kms
MDG), Shankaracharya (1.05
kms MDG), Prayagraj (2.20 kms
Bi-Cable Jig Back), Ujjain (1.76
ndia in the past 60 years has mobility with cable technology, kms MDG) and Dhosi Hill (0.88
had only about 75 kms of enabling seamless urban and kms Bi-cable Jig back). Ropeways
ropeway systems installed. It last-mile transit. Investment in the bidding stage include
had previously been a state opportunities till March 2030 Hemkund, Nainital, Tawang,
subject, not given much of a have been projected at USD 4.4 Kamakhya, Ramtek and Nashik.
I window to expand. As first billion with a pipeline of 250 kms Attracting global stakeholders,
mile connectivity was achieved across 71 projects. including Commissioning
with highways and other modes Consultants who can certify
of transportation, ropeways was Globally, France has over 4000 a ropeway project for use as
found to be the only solution ropeway projects followed by public transport, to invest is
which could complete end-to- USA and Austria with 2000, key and NHLML reached out
end connectivity. The Parvatmala Switzerland with 1700, Japan with presentations to a global
Pariyojana seeks to revolutionise with 170 and India, 71. The first, audience at the INTERALPIN fair
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