Jammu, May 27 -- A first cargo train carrying 24 tons of cherries is all set to roll from Jammu and Kashmir to Mumbai next month,

PM Modi was supposed to inaugurate the direct train service from Katra in Jammu to Srinagar early this month, but the function was put on hold due to inclement weather.

However, the newly created Jammu railway division has got its first VP indent, a request for allocation of a full parcel van for the shipment of goods, registered from Katra railway station to Bandra (Mumbai) for June 3.

Senior Divisional Commercial Manager, Northern Railway, Jammu, Uchit Singhal, had earlier said that the effort undertaken after extensive consultations with the Jammu and Kashmir Horticulture Department and fruit grower assoc...