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Govt plans Rs 194.747bn strategy for PR’s revival
(Approximately 2 billion USD)

Reference:
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan


Note: At present Pakistan has only 8 trains running while in 2007 we
had 47 trains operating making profits - perhaps PPP gov should be accountable for neglect



ISLAMABAD: The government has planned a comprehensive strategy for revival of Pakistan Railways (PR) in the next three years with total spending of Rs 194.747 billion for the maintenance of rolling stock, infrastructure development and improving reliability.
According to the Medium-Term Budget Estimates for Service Delivery 2011-14, an amount of Rs 60 billion would be required in the year 2011-12 for improvement in PR while Rs 64.588 billion, and Rs 70.169 billion will be required in 2012-12 and 2013-14, respectively.
The budget estimates revealed that PR is confronting financial crises as its expenditure for the year 2008-09 was Rs 46 billion against earning of Rs 23 billion, resulting in a shortfall of Rs 23 billion. A subsidiary of about Rs 9 billion was provided by the government to cover the gap but remaining Rs 14 billion was met through borrowing from State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). PR’s slab for overdraft from SBP was frozen at Rs 35 billion to exercise control over expenditure, which resulted into deterioration of services due to short supply of fuel, spares, maintenance and dissatisfaction in staff due to delay in payments like salary, GP fund, advances, and TA etc. The increase in fuel prices, labour wages, pension and non-increase in fares has adversely affected the cash flow of PR. Payments to contractors for supply of material were delayed resulting in non-supply of material in time.
The law and order situation in the country has badly affected the movement patron for passenger traffic, exports and imports, effecting the freight movement as well. PR has tried to bridge the gap by concentrating on the freight traffic and reduction in turn round time of freight trains.
Private sector has also been encouraged to run cargo trains by attracting freight traffic through rail.
PR is a capital intensive department where a lot of capital is required for the improvement, which cannot be arranged through resources of government and private sector is being encouraged to bring their rolling stock to run trains by paying track access charges. Maintenance of rolling stock and infrastructure is being outsourced to improve its reliability. Sale and checking of tickets in trains is being outsourced to reduce ticket-less travelling on branch line to improve revenue of PR.
Maximum emphasis is being paid to run freight trains particularly oil trains from Karachi to increase revenue. Efforts are being made to increase the average speed of trains to reduce the turn round time, improving the availability of rolling stock for reloading. High capacity wagons and computer-based interlocking with auto block system are being introduced to increase the line capacity and safety of trains. Doubling of track is being stressed to reduce journey time in addition to introduction of mechanised maintenance.
PR is constantly striving to make the organisation commercially viable by providing economical, safe and environment-friendly mode of transportation for passengers and bulk movement of cargo over long distances. To achieve this objective, efforts are being made to transform railways into a more responsive organisation so as to meet public needs, provide safe journey, operate efficiently, maximise earning and exercise control on expenditures. To further enhance passengers and freight traffic, PR has engineered development and improvement in infrastructure, upgradation and dualisation of railways track and installation of modern signalling system.
The progress in this regard is doubling of track between Lodhaarran-Khanewal [121 kilometres (km)] has been completed and work on doubling of track (246 km) from Khanewal to Raiwind is under process. Doubling of track from Khanewal to Sahiwal has been completed during the current financial year and opened for traffic. The remaining portion of the project for doubling of track from Sahiwal to Raiwind will be completed during 2011-12. To ensure availability of locomotives for train operations, an agreement of procurement and manufacturing of 75 diesel electric locomotives was signed with a Chinese manufacturer but the case is sub-judiced in the Lahore High Court.
PR has entered into a private partnership to boost its economic growth and infrastructure development. PR is concentrating on freight traffic to increase its share in freight sector. Four-wheeler slow moving wagons are being introduced to increase average speed, resulting in reduction of turn round time of freight trains.
 
Currently we have only 8 locomotives pulling trains

Its estimated 1 Train (1 locomotive) yields 1 billion rupees worth of trade/travel based money

Ideally we need 150-200 Locomotives to generate 200 billion rupees worth of revenue , about 2 billion USD worth of profit

a) Trains move food/ water/ trade goods cheaper
b) Most people of Pakistan , need trains to move from city to city the cheapest form of travel for a country that has huge population that
Cannot afford expensive trains or buses.
c) Finally , trains are also used for transporting heavy equipment for military in need


We could be generating 2-5 billion dollars form Pakistan Railways

The organization is currupt becuase

a) Its ticketing is not upgraded to 21st century standards
b) The locomotives just bought 2-3 years ago were let to die because they were bought in Musharif's time so PPP gov had no plans to revive these
c) Various expensive items were bought double the price
d) We have a factory in Pakistan that can build 2 locomotives per month but , is it being properly used that is the question we are always forced to
purchase items from outside pakistan because every one loves to "handle cash" -- when you introduce cash in Pakistani hands it brings currouption
because that fund is easily transferred to private projects or loses for Railways

I know a story of a man (quite disgusting guy) , he moved his family out , a Pakistani Railways worker , he has not worked for 2-3 years , but he collects his full salary form Pakistan Railways, he keeps sending fake doctors note to Pakistan Railways he has to do some operation for his eyes or something , other times he sends in a note that he is studying abroad so Pakistan Railways - I was thinking wow what a joke no wonder Pakistan Railways is struggling with people like this guy stealing money from company shameful

Stories like this are not uncommon because , there is no way to track "truth from lies in Pakistani corporations" -

Pakistan in 2007 had 47 engines, by all estimates producing 2 engines / month from there on we should have had 100 locomotives in 2011 or more

But what I hear that "Pakistan Railways maintenence crew used - Tainted oil " in locomotives the tainted oil with debrees and sludge when reused again , in engines broke down engines

Instead of using pure brand new oil they reused old engine oil !!! Of course the engine parts crumbled in brand new engines !!! And various engines parts broke down.

So oil that should have costed may be 50$ USD per locomotives , became in millions now because there was no one to administer the use of oil (good clean new oil) for engines.

I mean neglect of epic proportions , if this has happened in China , Chinese government would have hanged that person anyway you look at it a Locomotive bought brand new ... going out of service in 2-3 years is unheard of untill Pakistan Railways come to fold


During the years Pakistan got floods, it was stated that thousands and thousand tones of wheat laid outside in open , during rains because we did not had any means to transport these wheat out ... what happened then we did not appreciate god's food and blessings , and let the food rot in stations and open skies it rained and ruined things , and of course then came floods ... you have to appreciate food and not waste it ...

Because we have been using trucks / petrol to move commodity !!! Its further breaking our countries backs
all these trucks take alot of petrol moving between big cities and this is increasing overall prices of food in country
 
close it forever and 2bn$ should pay on education so next gen will be educated not corrupt .
 
Govt plans Rs 194.747bn strategy for PR’s revival
(Approximately 2 billion USD)

Reference:
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan


Note: At present Pakistan has only 8 trains running while in 2007 we
had 47 trains operating making profits - perhaps PPP gov should be accountable for neglect
8?!......only EIGHT?! Dude, please check those figures again. Pakistan is a huge country with an extensive rail network.
 
close it forever and 2bn$ should pay on education so next gen will be educated not corrupt .

Unfortunately railways is backbone of a country - it cannot be closed

Look in history , and you will see US rose to power in 1800 due to its railway tracks not its cow carts and caravans

Railways was also the reason for first world war (economic reason) as eastern countries were proposing doing trade via rail and not using british controlled waters

Good things we have going are

a) We have customer base willing to use trains
b) We have rail network
c) We have stations

We just need to build 5 locomotives / month or if we purchase make sure these items are maintained
at high levels and treated as national assets like Airbus or AWACs

Its not ideal where a million + dollar assets is ruined because some idiot reused (old engine oil instead of purchasing new oil for engines)

The ironic thing is that while - we are boasting GAWADAR ... as a way to link port to China , the reality of our railways is that its only operating 8 engines not even enough for a small city let alone a country size of Pakistan with 200 million people ..


The one thing that pisses people off is

a) Trains coming late ( now we know why only 8 engines)
b) No service on trains ( because we do not refurbish the cabins in Pakistan we buy it)
c) Lack of air-conditioning ( something to look at )


The big 3 corporations

PIA , STEELES , RAILWAYS need to generate 10 billion each , in order to be considered as national assets
 
2 billion dollars is not enough for the past 3 years 3 times Pakistan Railways have been funded to be revived and it never revived what makes you people think for the fourth time the funding will revive them. If carefully planned invested it could have taken less then 400 million dollars for the development of reasonable clean railways station with all facilities available and all computerized. I read a research paper on the internet and they estimated less then 300/400 million dollars would be sufficient to upgrade develop rebuild atleast 15+ railways stations all across Pakistan.
All we need is hard working men an undisruptive continual plan and a sure not less then 1 billion dollars to rebuild atleast 60% of the railways stations (does not include tracks or signals but buildings facilities).

No matter what people say western Locomotives are the best. You want the best of both worlds you have to spend as much as well.
 
8 is a wrong number i belive, there are 2 locomotives at one station in kch or lhr!!! at one time
 
Let's hope it really work.

BTW it seems impossible as their is alot of corruption, the owners of bus services will bribe railway minister as always & he will agree to promote their buisness. If they really are serious about railways than it should be given under strict supervision of Army & Court.
 
Only 8 locomotives. I guess in my city itself there would be around 20 locomotives.

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8 is a wrong number i belive, there are 2 locomotives at one station in kch or lhr!!! at one time

There is difference between regular and irregular locomotives. Probably you are talking about reserved locomotives.
 
While Privitization is one option - but I think an alternative should be a 80%-20% share appraoch with a Private Management firm - which would make the company profitable , bring in consultants from China / Japan who would set up the operations

And then the profits generated would be shared between government of Pakistan and the Consulting firm

The main reason for Curruption in this institute is that Employees - become complacent and stop working hard

A third party management firm could help motivate the employees to work harder for profits because the more profitable the firm becomes the more profits will yeild to company and Pakistan

This is one sector where there is 0% competetion to Railways and 100% profit could go to Pakistan or 80%

a) We must have 150-300 Locomotives and their engineering department should be at high level
b) The ticketing has to be done via Online Software removing delays and other curruption
c) The transit of Food and Goods via Train will yeild Cheaper food prices

If we plan to use Gwadar - the railroads have to be 200% efficient -

Simple Software based - worker time management software can help determine workers who come to work and actually do something vs lazy arses.

This is where the consulting company comes in to fire all the lazy workers - and bring in new blood - where needed ;) or provide early retirement -


Selling Multi Billion dollar assets for Pakistan for pennies is not recommended - as in Venezuella all National Assets belong to Government of Pakistan - Railways should stay with Nation but the consulting group should come in picture to bring in New IDEALS and process.
 

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