Chota Char Dham Railway project's 321 km long construction, costing INR43,292 crore (US$6.6 billion), commenced with "Final Location Survey" (FSL) by the government of India in May 2017. Access to the pilgrimage is either from Haridwar, or Rishikesh, or from Dehradun. The tradition is to visit the sites in the following order: