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Lalit Mohan
Dharamsala, April 6
The campaigning for the Dharamsala MC elections that are scheduled to go for polling tomorrow ended yesterday evening. In their zeal to win the elections, both the Congress and the BJP have promised the moon to people of Dharamsala in their vision documents released during the campaign.
The Congress vision document that was guided by former minister and AICC secretary Sudhir Sharma promised to bring up Funicular railway to connect Charan Khad area of lower Dharamsala with Bhagsu area of Upper Dharamsala. He also promised Skyways project for the city.
The vision document left many wondering about what was Funicular railway. It is a transportation system that uses cable-driven cars to connect points along a steep incline. A funicular uses two counterbalanced passenger cars attached to the opposite ends of the same cable, which is looped over a pulley at the upper end of a track. In this system two cars move in concert: as one ascends, the other descends simultaneously, Presently, it was functional in developed countries and the USA, the UK and Turkey.