It is widely regarded as an engineering marvel because of its height, the steepness of the sides of the gorge it spans, and its striking design, consisting of an asymmetrical arrangement of cables anchored to a single massive pylon.

Quality aspects, construction standards, indigenous materials, and the painting scheme were proposed to be similar to the Chenab Bridge.

Later, a committee headed by a former railway board chairman recommended that the location was not suitable for an arch bridge.

In particular, the unstable geology of the Himalayan mountains combined with the steepness of the sides of the gorge made an arch bridge impractical.

[2] In October 2016, Indian Railways decided to build a cable-stayed bridge at Anji Khad, [3] with a striking asymmetrical design supported by 96 cables anchored to a single pylon on the Reasi side, of height 193 m from its foundation.