Parvatmala

The ropeway in India (also known as aerial lift, cable car or chair lift) is a public transportation system where cabins, gondolas or open chairs are hauled above the ground with the help of cables.[1][2] India's Parvatmala Scheme (literally "mountain garland scheme"), the world's largest ropeway project, envisages spending ₹1,250 billion (US$15 billion) in public–private partnership (PPP) mode over five years till 2030 to build 200 new ropeway projects of more than 1200 km length, which will decongest the traffic in narrow roads of big cities and provide cheaper connectivity in mountainous and touristy areas.[3] Since 30% of India is covered by mountains,[3] the ropeways are specially useful in mountainous areas, where it is difficult to build roads or railway, as lower cost and higher Return on investment (ROI) projects.[1][2] Rajgir Ropeway in Bihar, 333m-long chairlift ropeway built in 1960s, is India's first ropeway.[4] As of 2024, the 4 km-long Auli Ropeway in Uttarakhand is India's longest[5] and world's the second-longest ropeway behind Vietnam's 7,899.9 m long Hòn Thơm cable car,[6] and when completed the under-construction 5.5 km-long Mussoorie-Dehradun Ropeway will be the longest in India.[5] Kashi ropeway is India's first urban ropeway,[7] and world's third urban public transport ropeway behind Bolivia's Mi Teleférico opened in 2014 and Mexico City's Mexicable opened in 2021.[8] This article also contains a list of "glass bridges in India" ("glass skywalks in India"), which are mostly glass bridge skywalk.

Rajgir Ropeway in Bihar, India's first ropeway
Girnar Ropeway
Gulmarg Gondola – The Cable Car of Gulmarg
  1. ^ a b "Tracing the course of infra technology : Indian ropeways have been used since the 1970s". Financial Express. 20 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Top 5 ropeways rides in India". Intermiles. 26 October 2020.
  3. ^ a b जमीन के बाद आसमान में 'सड़क' बनाएंगे गडकरी, खर्च होंगे 1.25 लाख करोड़, दुनिया का सबसे बड़ा प्रोजेक्‍ट शुरू, News18, 24 Jan 2024.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference pmala4 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ a b India's longest ropeway is a game-changer for Mussoorie and Dehradun, India Today, 26 Oct 2023.
  6. ^ Hon Thom Cable Car (Vietnam): The longest cable car in Southeast Asia, aseanrecords.world, 6 may 2022.
  7. ^ ‘Amazing confluence of faith and technology’: PM Modi on India’s first urban ropeway system in Varanasi. Top points, Hindustan Times, 29 mar 2023.
  8. ^ India To Be Third Country To Have Public Transport Ropeway. Here's A Look At Other Nations Where It Operates, Abp Live, 23 mar 2023.