Reasi is located at a distance of 64 km from Jammu and is bounded by
Tehsil Gool-Gulabgarh in the north, Tehsil
Sunderbani and
Kalakote of District
Rajouri in the west, Tehsil
Udhampur in the east, Tehsils Jammu and
Akhnoor of District
Jammu on the south. Climatically a major part of this Sub-Division falls in the sub-tropical zone and the rest in
temperate zone.
Access Being far away from Jammu–Udhampur–Srinagar Highway 1-A and somewhat inaccessible due to the hilly area, economic progress in the mostly hilly region of Reasi has been rather slow. With the commissioning of
Salal Hydroelectric Project at Dhyangarh near Reasi, the economic activity of the area has picked up considerably. Construction work for this project was started in 1970 by the National Hydro-Electric Power Corporation (
NHPC) and the project was commissioned in 1987 when the first stage of 345
Megawatt power station was completed and balance/the second stage of the project with 345
MW was commissioned in 1995 making the total generation to 690 MW. Power from this project flows to the Northern Grid from where it is distributed to the states of J&K,
Punjab,
Haryana,
Delhi,
Himachal Pradesh,
Rajasthan,
Uttar Pradesh and
Chandigarh. The
Jammu–Srinagar–Baramulla Railway line which is under construction passes through the Reasi district. The Railway line to Katra was inaugurated on 4 July 2014, by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra railway station. From Katra, the Railway line traverses to Reasi-Banihal area with stations at Reasi, Salal A–Salal B, Surukot, Barala, Sangaldan, Kohli and Laole. The 1,315-metre-long (4,314 ft)
Chenab Rail Bridge was constructed over the Chenab River near Salal with a height of 383.10 meters from the river surface. ==Administration==