The station has been built as part of the
Jammu–Baramulla line megaproject, intending to link the
Kashmir Valley with
Jammu Tawi and the rest of the Indian railway network. On the inauguration day former PM of India,
Manmohan Singh and
Sonia Gandhi enjoyed the 12-minute ride to Qazigund with 100 students, mostly girls, of the Banihal Higher Secondary School, and made the 17.8-km ride back to , passing through the
tunnel, the second longest in Asia. Those who accompanied them were Governor
N.N. Vohra, Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah, Railway Minister
Mallikarjun Kharge and Union Health Minister
Ghulam Nabi Azad. ==Reduced Level==