RAWALPINDI: Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Wednesday saidthat Pakistan Railway’s deficit had been reduced from Rs 36 billion to Rs32 billion in the last ten months and vowed to end the entire losses duringthe next five years.
Speaking at inauguration ceremony of Sir Syed Express here, he said effortswere being made to make Pakistan railways a profitable entity while thenumber of fright trains would also be increased.
He said the number of railways passengers had been grown to over sixmillion during the last nine months and our target for the next year wasten million passengers.
He said un-functional track of 1861 of Pakistan Railways in Sindh provincehad been restored.
The minister said the ML1 project, under which a new railway track would belaid from Peshawar to Karachi was his old dream and it would boostperformance of Pakistan Railways.
He said after its approval from the ECNEC, the project would be inauguratedfrom the four provinces in the current month.
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Shaikh Rashid said after completion of MLI, project travelling time betweenRawalpindi to Karachi would be reduced to just ten hours.
He said a new Command and Control system was being set up for timelyarrival and departure of trains while wifi facilities at all railwaysstations had been provided.
The minister thanked the prime minister for allocating Rs 1.5 billion forMother and Child Hospital in Rawalpindi in the Public Sector DevelopmentProgramme (PSDP).
