New Delhi, Jan. 9 -- The world's highest railway bridge that is likely to be 35 metres taller than the Eiffel Tower, is to soon come up in India as the government has set December 2021, as a fresh deadline for completion of the bridge. Kashmir will be connected to the rest of the India through the railway network, the work for which will be completed by December next year.

To be 359 metres above the river bed, the massive arch-shaped structure has used more than 5,462 tonnes of steel. It is a major link between Katra and Banihal. Also, the bridge will surpass the record of China's Beipan river Shuibai railway bridge (275 m).

Calling it the most challenging project in the post-independent history of the Indian Railways, Konkan Railway C...