NIA Clears Pahalgam Baisaran Cable Car Project

Overview

• Officials said the NIA conveyed it has no objection from the investigation angle to the proposed ropeway at Baisaran in Pahalgam.
• The planned alignment runs 1.4 km from Yatri Niwas to Baisaran, requiring 9.13 hectares of forest land with an estimated cost of Rs 100–120 crore.
• Authorities say construction is expected to take about 18 months after work formally begins.
• JKCCC awarded preparatory work to Ronmas India Pvt. Ltd. and signed an agreement, but topographical and geotechnical studies have been delayed by post-attack restrictions.
• The executing agency has sought site access permissions, and officials frame the project as a tourism confidence-builder following the April 22 attack that killed 26 people.