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The Konkan Railway is notable chiefly for
Answer: A
Correct answer: linking Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka along a difficult coastal terrain
The Konkan Railway runs about 740 km from Roha in Maharashtra to Thokur in Karnataka, through Goa, along a coastal strip broken by the spurs of the Western Ghats and by dozens of rivers. Its construction between 1990 and 1998 is regarded as one of independent India’s major engineering achievements: more than 90 tunnels and around 2,000 bridges, cut through soft laterite that made tunnelling unusually dangerous. It included what was then India’s longest railway tunnel and, at Panval Nadi, one of Asia’s tallest viaducts. Before it, travel between Mumbai and Mangaluru meant a long detour inland over the Ghats, and the line cut the distance by hundreds of kilometres. It was built and is operated by a separate corporation, funded partly by public bonds, rather than by Indian Railways directly - a financing model then new in India. Monsoon landslides remain its recurring difficulty, and services are run to a modified timetable through the rains.
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