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PAKISTAN RAILWAYS
Brief History
Sir Henry Edward Frere was appointed Commissioner of Sind after its
annexation with Bombay in 1847. It was he who discovered the potential
of Karachi as a seaport and conceived the idea of a railway line to up
country and recommended Karachi to be a seaport in 1855. The survey
for construction of a railway line from Karachi was started in 1858.
Initially a railway line was proposed from Karachi City to Kotri, then
steam navigation through rivers Indus/Chenab up to Multan and from
there on a Railway line to Lahore and beyond. The 13th of May, 1861 was historical day when the first railway
line was opened for public traffic between Karachi City and
Kotri, a distance of 169 Kms. By 1897 the line from Kiamari to
Kotri was converted to double track. Different sections of this part of railway in the Sub- continent, which
now comprise Pakistan Railways, were constructed in the last
quarter of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century. Unlike
other rail networks in the Sub-continent during British era, most of
the sections (of Pakistan Railways) were constructed as strategic
lines to safeguard the British Empire in the Sub-continent. It is an
interesting coincidence that the present alignment of railway line
from Peshawar to Karachi closely follows Alexander's line of march
through the Hindu Kush to the sea.
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In 1885, the Sind, Punjab and Delhi Railways were purchased
by the Secretary of State for India. On 1st January, 1886 this
line and other State Railways (the Indus Valley, the Punjab
Northern, inclusive of Sind Sagar eastern section and the
Kandahar or Sindh-Pishin southern section) were integrated
and North Western State Railway was formed; which was later
on renamed as North Western Railways
At the time of Independence, the NWR was bifurcated with
1,847 route miles lying in India and 5,048 route miles in
Pakistan. In 1954 the Railway line was extended to Mardan and
Charsadda and in 1956 Jacobabad - Kashmor narrow-gauge
section (2' -6'') was converted into broad-gauge section.
Construction of Kot Adu-Kashmor line was completed in 1973,
providing an alternate route from Karachi to up country, along
right bank of River Indus. Meter-gauge line from Hyderabad to
Khokhropar was converted to broad-gauge in two stages, from
Hyderabad to Mirpur Khas 66.07 kilometer in 1967 & Mirpur
Khas to Khokhropar (Zero Point) 133 kilometer in 2006. Route & Track Length:
Pakistan Railways is a two-gauge system i.e., broad-gauge and
meter-gauge. The gauge-wise track length on 30th June, 2016
is as under;
Route Kilometers Track Kilometers
Broad-gauge 7479 11492
Meter-gauge 312 389
Total 7791 11881 2
Mission Statement
To provide a competitive, safe,
reliable, market oriented, efficient
and environment-friendly
mode of transport.
Ministry of Railways Secretary/Chairman Railways
Secretary Railway
Member Finance
(Bs-22)
l Managing Director/PRACS
Headquarter Office (BS -21) Board (BS-21)
Federal Govt: Inspector
Director General Managing Director/REDAMCO Operations (BS-20)
Railways (BS-21)
Director General
Managing Director/RailCop
Director General/
Planning (BS-20)
Technical (BS-20) Director General Chief Executive Officer/PRFTC Vigilance (BS-20)
Chief Executive Officer/Sr. General Manager
General M
AGM/Infrastructure
AGM / Mechanical
AGM / Traffic Chief Personnel
G Manager
(BS-21) (BS-21) (BS-21) Officer (BS-20) W&SI (BS-21) M&S (BS-21) Chief Engineer/OL
Chief Mech:Engineer
7-Divisional
DG/Education
M.D Locomotive Factory (BS-20) Chief Operating
Chief Engineer/S&C Loco (BS-20) Superintendents (BS-20) (BS-20) (BS-20) Chief Mech:Engineer Supdt: (BS-20) (BS-20) Director Procurement
Chief Engineer/Design C & W (BS-20) C.C.M/Passenger
FA & CAO/PR Chief Medical & (BS-20)
(BS-20) Chief Electrical Eng. (BS-20) Health Officer F A & CAO/M &S.
PD/DOT (BS-20) (BS-20) (BS-20)
FA & CAO/Revenue
(BS-20) (BS-20)
PD/Bridge Reh(BS-20)
Chief Controller of C.C.M/Freight
Director Store &
Managing Director Stores (BS-20) (BS-20) C F (BS-20)
PD/Track Reh (BS-20)
Chief Controller of
(BS-20) Chief Planning & Purchase
Managing Director
Chief Engineer
Chief Marketing
Project Officer(BS-20) (BS-20) Purchase (BS-20)
D.G Public Relations
C S/ Factory (BS-20) Telecom (BS-20) Divisional Supdt Manager (BS-20) P D/540 HCW (BS-20)
Chief Engineer Workshops (BS-20) C.T.M/Dry Ports
(MP-II) PD/Loco Reh (BS-20) Signal (BS-20) PD/150 DE Locomo-
D. Public Relations
Project Director P.D. Signals (BS-20) tives (BS-20) (BS-20)
Director/Property
PD/100 DE Locomo-
(BS-20) (800 HCW) (BS-20)
PD/New Dry Ports
Project Director & Land (BS-20) tives (BS-20) D.G Legal Affairs
PD/55 DE/Locomotives
(BS-20)
PAEMS (BS-20) MD/Station Upgrades (MP-II)
(BS-20) (BS-20) Director Legal P D/605 HCHW(BS-20)
Director/I.T (BS-20)
Affairs (BS-20)
PD/75 DE/Loco (BS-20)
nspector irector I
D
irector/ Managing D KUTC
General General
PRP
Walton
(BS-21) Academy
D.I.G (BS-21) Operation
(BS-20)
D.I.G Head
quarter
(BS-20)
Organization:
Pakistan Railways is a Federal Government Department under
Ministry of Railways. The Secretary for Ministry of Railways is
the ex-officio Chairman of the Railway Board. Pakistan Railways comprises of three functional units. The
Operations Unit, the Manufacturing & Services Unit and
Welfare & Special Initiative Unit, Chief Executive Officer/Sr.
General Manager (BS-22) is the overall incharge of these units.
The Operations unit is directly headed by Chief Executive
Officer/Sr. General Manager, whereas the other two units are
headed by General Manager concerned. The Operations unit is
located in the historic North Western Railway Headquarter
Office Building, an imposing landmark of colonial era
architecture of Lahore. It oversees train operations and its all
related functions. There are three Additional General
Managers, each of them heads a business unit, i.e.,
Infrastructure, Traffic and Mechanical. In addition, there are
various specialized heads of departments who assist the Chief
Executive Officer/Sr. General Manager.
The Manufacturing and Services (M&S) unit oversees the
management of the Concrete Sleeper Factories, Locomotive and
Carriage Factories. The Welfare & Special Initiative Unit manages
all Railway owned Schools, Hospitals and Director Stores and
Purchase besides monitoring and execution of projects. Pakistan Railway comprises seven territorial operating divisions
i.e. Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Multan, Sukkur, Karachi &
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Quetta, besides, Workshops Division at Moghalpura, Lahore and an
administrative division at Headquarters office, Lahore. The territorial
operating and Workshops Divisions are each headed by a Divisional
Superintendent, who is directly under the control of Chief Executive
Officer/Sr. General Manager. The Divisional Superintendents are
assisted by the Divisional and Assistant Officers of their respective
Departments i.e. Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Signal and
Telecommunications Engineering, Medical, Transportation &
Commercial etc. In addition to that, Pakistan Railways has its own
set up of Railway Police headed by Inspector General /PRP,
Accounts Department headed by FA&CAO, Audit Department
headed by Director General /Audit, Information Technology
Department, Personnel Branch and Stores/Purchase Department
who report to the Secretary/Chairperson Railways for the
performance of their respective units.
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CHAPTER-I
Operating Unit
A. Infrastructure: The Infrastructure unit is headed by the Additional General Manager/
Infrastructure, who is assisted by the following head of departments.
1. Chief Engineer Open Line. 2. Chief Engineer Signal. 3. Chief Engineer Telecommunication. 4. Chief Engineer Design. 5. Director Property and Land. 6. Directorate of Information Technology. 7. Chief Engineer/S&C. 8. MD/Stations Upgrades.
Civil Engineering Department:
1. On 13th May 1861, the first Railway line was opened
between Karachi and Kotri with a total distance of 169 kms. At
present the route kilometer is 7791 km & running track
kilometer is 9092 km. The condition of track infrastructure is
generally satisfactory. Various sections have been up-graded
for safety, axle load & traffic requirements.
2. The permanent way ensures safety of rolling stock and smooth
train operation. The track components are subjected to continuous
wear and tear under the dynamic impact of moving trains and have
to be replaced at regular intervals to keep the track geometry
within safe parameters.
3. Salient Features:
= 7791 Kms * Route Kilometers
* Broad Gauge (1676 mm) = 7479 Kms
* Meter Gauge (1000 mm) = 312 Kms
* Running Track = 9092 Kms
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Level Crossings:- Details of Level Crossing on the Pakistan Railways Network is as under:-
* Total Level Crossings = 3389 *Nos.
* Total Manned Level Crossings = 1514 *Nos.
* Total Un-manned Level Crossings = 1875 *Nos. Efforts are underway to eliminate at grade crossings as a policy.
However, in order to avoid accidents at Un-manned level Crossings,
these level crossings are being converted into Manned Level
Crossings, as an interim measure, subject to availability of financial
resources. The matter of conversion of unmanned level crossings
into manned level crossings is being persuaded vigorously with the
provincial governments. Seventy five (75) unmanned level crossings
have been up-graded into Manned Level Crossing during 2015-2016. * Level Crossings of permanently closed sections have been deleted.
4. The Classification of track on Pakistan Railways is as under:-
Description Max. speed (Km/h) Length (Kms)
Primary-A 105 4771
Primary-B 95 3388
Secondary 75 1336
Tertiary 65 1997
Meter Gauge 55 389
Total - 11881 5. Repair & Maintenance:
a) Track During the year 2015-2016, an amount of Rs. 1575 millions
was allocated for procurement of track material against the
actual requirements of Rs.11641.3 millions, so essential
and un-avoidable track material could only be procured for
replacement of un-serviceable/worn out rails, sleepers and
fastenings etc, to keep the track fit for safe train operation.
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b) Buildings: Pakistan Railways has vast infrastructure comprising
service and residential buildings scattered all over the
country. There are 70100 residential buildings, which
include 67939 staff quarters, 1809 houses for Senior
Scale Officials and 423 officers Residences. Service
buildings include Stations, Schools, Hospitals, Offices,
Stores/Sheds, Workshops, Rest Houses and running
rooms etc, which have an area of 25.807 millions Sft. c) Bridges:
There are 13959 Railway bridges including 532 major and
13427 minor bridges over the system. Most of the bridges
were constructed well before partition, when Railway System
was introduced in the subcontinent during 19th century and
have completed their useful life. Due to dedicated inspection
and regular maintenance, bridges are generally in satisfactory
condition for safe train operation. Bridges which require
major repairs or rehabilitation are being attended through
following different ongoing projects.
1. Bridge Rehabilitation Project has to rehabilitate 159 Bridges,
out of which rehabilitation of 85 bridges has been completed.
2. Rehabilitation of Flood damages project has to rehabilitate
69 bridges, out of which 46 have been completed and work
on remaining will be completed upto June, 2017.
3. Three ongoing Track renewal projects will rehabilitate 34
Bridges out of which 07 have been completed and
remaining are expected to be completed upto June, 2017.
4. Huge painting area of Major & Minor Bridges was
over due painting since long. During 2015-16
(4762778 Sft) area has been painted.
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Bridges Reh: Projects:
Mission Statement: Most of the Bridges over the Pakistan Railways network are more
than 100 years old. According to State Railway code the life of
masonry substructure of bridges is supposed as 100 years, while for
superstructure (steel bridge) is supposed as 60 years. Accordingly
almost 86% bridges have completed their designed life. At present, there are 13,959 Bridges on Pakistan Railways
network, out of which, 281 bridges were identified in acute
distress, requiring immediate action for rehabilitation. Therefore,
these bridges were including in different projects, out of which
191 bridges have been completed and remaining will be
completed at the end of financial year 2016- 2017. The total cost
of rehabilitation of these bridges is Rs. 1,510/- Million. Objectives:
* Ensuring rehabilitation as per safety standards. *
To remove speed restrictions over weak bridges.
* Cost effective maintenance, in reducing the operational
cost. * To meet with the increased requirements of Freight &
Passenger Sectors.
Achievements:
Due to financial constraints and time over run, only 98 bridges
over various Sections of Pakistan Railways could be
rehabilitated uptill 30-06-2016 and an expenditure of Rs.
461.789 Million was incurred. This project has been closed
with effect from 30-06- 2016, with a reduced scope of work.
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Survey and Construction:
1. Feasibility Study of the following Projects has been
completed during the year 2015-2016.
(i) Feasibility study for new rail link from Islamabad to
Murree and Muzaffarabad.
(ii) Feasibility Study for up-gradation/ Rehabilitation of Main
line (ML-1) and construction of new Dry Port/ Cargo
handling facility at Havelian (Baldher) District Haripur. 2. Feasibility of the following Projects has been Initiated during
2015-16 and likely to be completed in 2017.
i Feasibility study for Up-gradation/Rehabilitation
Shahdara-Narowal-Sialkot- Wazirabad and Narowal Chak
Amru Section is likely to be completed by 30-05-2017.
ii Feasibility Studies (i) To connect Gwadar with Karachi(ii)
Gwadar to Jacobabad via Besima and Khuzdar, is likely
to be completed by February, 2017.
iii Comprehensive Feasibility study of Up-gradation of
existing Main Line-II (ML -II) from Kotri to Attock City
(1254 Kms) and Up-gradation in connection with CPEC.
Feasibility study in connection with ML-II is likely to be
completed by January, 2017. 3. Staff quarters for Welfare of Lower Grade Employees. To
overcome shortage of accommodation for employees,
following new units are being built at various stations.
96 Units under construction in Lahore.
36 Units under construction in Narowal. 48 Units under construction in Karachi.
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Dualization of Track Projects:
A) On Going Projects:
1. Doubling of Track from Khanewal to Raiwind (246 KMs)
PC-1 amounting to Rs 5.497 Billion was approved by the
ECNEC, for Doubling of Track from Khanewal to Raiwind (246
KMs) on 04-08-2005. The same was revised to Rs. 8.326
Billion, on 12 -11 -2007 and subsequently re-revised to Rs.
12.617 Billion on 26-05- 2011. The work on this project was
commenced during the financial year 2005-06. Section from
Khanewal to Sahiwal (119 KM) was completed and opened for
traffic on 17-09-2011. The section from Sahiwal to Raiwind
(127 Km), after completion and FGIR's inspection, has been
opened for traffic on 26 -11-2015. For inclusion of
reconstruction/up-gradation of Khanewal, Okara and Sahiwal
Railway Station Buildings, PC-1 has been re-revised and
submitted to Ministry of Railways for approval and the work
for construction of new station buildings at Okara and
Sahiwal are in progress by the nominated agencies. Re-
construction/up-gradation of above mentioned Railways
Station Buildings will be completed upto 31-12-2017. Re-
revised PC-I for Rs. 14.117 Billion is under process of
approval.. 2 Doubling of Track from Shahdara Bagh to
Lalamusa. * Total Length 126 Km
* Total Cost of the Project Rs. 13593 Million * Completion period 03 years.
* PC-I approved in May 2011 by Executive Committee of
National Economic Council (ECNEC). 12
* After the approval of PC-I the project activities were started.
The work of Topographic Survey was awarded to M/s PRACS,
has been completed. Tenders invited from International/
National and consortium of firms for execution of the project,
were pended by the MOR for the time being till further orders.
* Subsequently it was informed vide MOR letter No. 4 (11)
PL-2014 dated 27-10-2014 that Doubling of Track from
Shahdara Bagh to Lalamusa has been proposed for
inclusion in "Up-gradation of ML-I" under China
Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). A) Future Projects:
1 Doubling of Track from Shahdara Bagh to Faisalabad.
* Total Length 135 Km.
* Total CostRs.10281 Million.
* Completion period 03 years.
* PC-I was approved in May 2011 by the Executive
Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC).
* Subsequent to the completion of work of Topographic
Survey by M/s PRACS. Tenders were invited from
International/National and consortium of firms for
execution and completion of project but as per decision
taken in the meeting r e g a r d i n g P u b l i c S e c t o r
D e v e l o p m e n t P r o g r a m me ( P S D P ) p r o j e c
t s , h e l d i n P a k i s t a n Railway Headquarters Office
Lahore on 21-08-2013, this project was proposed to be
kept on the back-burner for the time being.
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2. Doubling of Track from Lalamusa to Chaklala (including
Realignment of Track from Kalowal to Pindora)
* Total Length 152 Kms.
* Total Cost Rs. 39111 Million
* Completion period 03 years
* PC-I PC-I submitted to Planning
Commission by Ministry of Railway.
3. Doubling of Track from Golra Sharif to Peshawar Cantt.
* Total Length 160 Kms.
* Cost of the Project Rs. 29867 Million
* Completion period 03 Years
* PC-I PC-I submitted to Planning
Track: Commission by Ministry of Railway.
Current Activities of XEN/Track Department (Extra Division).
1. Welding Cell
Cell for arranging welding of rail joints is headed by STD/
Welding and controlled by AEN/Welding. Welding cell is
responsible for welding of rail joints all over the system.
Under a placed programme during financial year 2015-2016,
6427 No. rail joints were welded over the network.
2. Ultrasonic Flaw Detection Cell
It is headed by STD/Inspection and controlled by AEN/ Track. Inspection cell is responsible for ultrasonic
inspection of rails and point & crossing over the system
under a scheduled program. During financial year 2015 -
2016, 2224 Kms track was inspected for Ultrasonic Flaw
Detection over the network.
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3. Curve Realignment Cell
Curve is a very sensitive portion of track. This cell is
headed by STD/Curve and controlled by AEN/Track. C.R.
cell is responsible for realignment of curve over the
system on the request of operating divisions. Curves
are realigned on different locations over the network
during financial year 2015-2016.
B. Cooperation with other Departments.
Close cooperation remained with other departments i.e.
NESCOM etc by Pakistan Railways during the financial year
2015 -2016 regarding the local development of products to be
used in the railway systems like speedometers for
locomotives, troubleshooting of various electronic circuit
boards, development of safety system for level crossings etc.
C. Future Plans
i It is planned that during Financial Year 2015-2016, 8000
Nos. rail joints will be welded over the system.
ii It is also planned that during Financial Year 2016-17, 1600
Km track will be inspected with Ultra Sonic Flaw Detector
machines, to identify defective rails in the track.
iii A project of level crossing protection and anti-collision
system is planned to be carried out with the co-
operation of NESCOM
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STATEMENT SHOWING THE DETAIL POSITION OF ROUTE AND TOTAL
Primary-A Primary-B Secondary
Division
Route Run- Loops/ Total Route Run- Loops/ Total Route Running Loops/ Total
Track ning Yard and Track Track ning Yard and Track Track Track Yard and Track
KMs Track Siding KMs KMs Track Siding KMs KMs KMs Siding KMs
Karachi 296
KMs
359 883 314
KMs
63 378 0 0 0 0
524 315
Sukkur 458 916 166 1082 533 533 146 679 0 0 0 0
Multan 559 963 229 1192 809 809 101 910 148 148 30 178
Lahore 646 822 407 1229 422 422 48 470 218 218 22 240
Rawalpindi 157 161 224 385 208 223 47 270 74 74 5 79
Peshawar 0 0 0 0 326 326 155 481 0 0 0 0
Quetta 0 0 0 0 141 179 21 200 744 744 95 839
MGPR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 2116 3386 1385 4771 2753 2807 581 3388 1184 1184 152 1336
Total Route Track 7791 KM
Total Running Track including 9195 KM
Running Double Track Section
2686 KMs Loops/Yards and Siding
Total Track 11881 KMs
Double Track 1403 KMs
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TRACK KMS DIVISION WISE ON ENTIRE NETWORK OF PAKISTAN RAILWAYS
Tertiary Meter Gauge Total
Total Total Total Run- Loops/
Route Running Loops/ Total Route Running Loops/ Total Route ning Yard Track
Track Track Yard and Track Track Track Yard and Track Track Track and KMs
KMs KMs Siding KMs KMs KMs Siding KMs KMs KMs Siding
153 161 75 236 312 312 77 389 1075 1312 574 1886
131 131 12 143 .. .. .. .. 1122 1580 324 1904
361 361 30 391 .. .. .. .. 1877 2281 390 2671
74 89 12 101 .. .. .. .. 1360 1551 489 2040
343 343 156 489 .. .. .. .. 782 801 432 1233
214 214 35 249 .. .. .. .. 540 540 190 730
150 207 54 261 .. .. .. .. 1035 1130 170 1300
0 0 117 117 .. .. .. .. 0 0 117 117
1426 1506 491 1997 312 312 77 389 7791 9195 2686 11881
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CONSOLIDATED REPORT ON ALL PSDP INFRAS
S. Name of Project
Cost of Project as Completion Expected Expenditure
per PC-I/ Received date as per Completion during No. PC-I (Infrastructure PC-I/ Received date 2015-16
Portion Only) PC-I (upto 30-6-16
1 2 3 4 5 6
ONGOING PROJECTS 1 Acquisition of Land for Railway
1,332.000 .. 31-12-2016 747.984
Container Yard. Station and
Railway Line from Sea Port upto
Coastal Highway at Gwadar
2 Doubling of Track from Khanewal 12,617.400 30-06-2012 31-12-2017 213.127 to Raiwind (Revised) (DOT-II)
3 Doubling of Track from 13,593.000 30-06-2014 .. 132.059
Shahdara to Lalamusa (DOT-III)
4 Feasibility Studies (Lumpsum) 150.000 30-06-2016 30-06-2016 1.125
(Revised)
5 Mechanization of Track Mainte- 4,055.403 30-09-2014 30-06-2016 821.489
nance (MTM)
6 Reconstrution of Assets Damaged 6,365.239 30-06-2017 1,940.076
during the Floods 2010 (RFD)
7 Rehabilitation and improvement 11,544.000 30-06-2016 30-06-2017 1,065.362 of Track (Revised) Karachi to
Khanpur TR-I)
8 Rehabilitation of Railway Assets 6,802.953 31-03-2016 31-12-2016 315.464 damaged during Riots of 27-28 De-
cember, 2007 (revised) (Signal Re-
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hab)
2,005.016 30-06-2014 31-12-2016 502.940
Rehabilitation of Rolling Stock
and Track (RR&T)
10 Replacement of Metal Sleepers 2,216.000 31-12-2010 31-03-2017 460.169 and Track renewal on Lodhran-
Shahdara Section (87-KMs)
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TRUCTURE PROJECTS Rs. In Million
Cumulative Progress upto Expenditure 30-6-2016 (in%)
Remarks
upto
Physical Finan-
30-5-2016
cial
7 8 9 10
1,197.984 90% 89.94%
12,611.476 99.50% 99.95% For inclusion reconstrution/Up-gradation of KWL, OKR & SWAL Railway Station Buildings,
Re-Revised PC-I at a cost of Rs. 14533.00 million submitted to MOR, RMPDR for approval.
672.009 4.95% 4.94%
29.995 57% 20.00% Rs.1.125 Million has been incurred during 2015- 16 for the feasibility study of China Creek
Bridge. Revised PC-II for ML-2 & ML-3 amounting Rs 532 Million has been submitted to MOR
for subsequent approval from P&D Division.
Contract awarded for Material lorries (17 Nos), Light Weight Temping Machines (02 Nos), Drill-
ing Machines (17 Nos), Tractor with accessories (o4 Nos), Fork Lifters (o5 Nos).
1901.137 47% 46.879%
Tender in Process for Sleeper Changing Machines (o4 Nos), Light Weight Temping Machines
for Pls & Crossings (02 Nos). Small Lifting/Slewing Jack (34 Nos) A/C Welding Set (04 Nos),
and Vertical Tampers (17 Nos).
Machinery Procured:-
= 17Nos. V. Ballast Clearing Machine = 1 No. i. Rail Cutting Machines
ii. Bolt Tightening Machines = 17Nos. Vi. BFork Lifters = 9 Nos.
iii. Rail Cutting Machines = 4 Nos. Vii. Telescopic Cranes = 2 Nos.
iv. Tamping Machines = 2 Nos. Vii. Motor Trollies = 9 Nos.
2,458.095 65.00% 38.62% i. Work for execution of 50 Nos. Civil Work completed, against 178 work. ii. CTR Completed = 20 KMs against 151 KMs.
10,431.362 86.00% 90.36%
iii. SR Completed = 19 KMs against 49 KMs.
Civil Work
6,623.367 =100%
97.36%
i. Up-gradation Signaling System =18 Stations completed against 23 Nos.
Coaches68%
Locomo- ii. Reh of burnt coaches = 64 Nos.
tive=100% iii.Cable Laying = 276 KMs completed against 314.79 KMs.
1,044.108 21% 52.07%
i. CTR Completed = 13.00 KMs against 29.53 KMs.
ii. TSR with PSC Sleepers Completed = 18.00 KMs against 37.63 KMs. iii. CSR Completed = 2000 Nos against 100.000 Nos.
iv. Painting of Bridges = 10 Nos against 11 Nos.
12,680.423 63% 104.68% S.R Completed =108.72 KMs against 122.65 KMs. Bridges Completed = 6 Nos against 16 Nos.
Fencing Completed = 2000 RFT against 11.560 RFT.
Other Civil Works completed = 100%
Ballast supply Completed = 2,844.625Cft against 3,800.000 Cft.
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CONSOLIDATED REPORT ON ALL PSDP INFRAS
S. Name of Project
Cost of Project as Completion Expected Expenditure
per PC-I/ Received date as per Completion during No. PC-I (Infrastructure PC-I/ Received date 2015-16
Portion Only) PC-I (upto 30-6-16
1 2 3 4 5 6
ONGOING PROJECTS 11 Replacement of Old and Obsolete 17,464.175 09.05.2016 30-06-2016 194.038 Signal Gear from Lodhran-
Khanewal-Shahdara Bagh Mainline
Section of Pakistan Railways (RSP)
12 Revival of Karachi Circular Rail- 9,617.000 .. .. 4.102 way (KCR) as modern Commuler
System (Revised).
13 Track Rehabilitation on Khanpur- 8,978.000 31-03-2014 31-12-2018 932.384
Lodhran Section (TR-II)
14 (i) PC-II for Feasibility Study to 135.500 .. .. 22.391 Connect Gwadar with Karachi.
(ii) Feasibility Study from Gwadar
to Basima and from Basima to
Jacobabad via Khuzdar (CPEC)
15 Comprehensive Feasibility Study 390.000 31-06-2015 31-12-2015 170.082 for Up-gradation / Rehabilitation
of Mainline 1 (ML-1) and New Dry
Port at Havelian (Buldhair) Dis-
trict Haripur under CPEC.
16 Renovation & Up-gradation of 846.000 .. 30-06-2017 91.495
Major Railway Stations 17 Up-gradation of Railway 659.958 .. .. 66.749
Stations to Attract Sikh Tourism at
Hassanabad, Nankana Sahib and
Narowal
18 Replacement of 2 Generating Sets 160.140 .. 31-08-2016 104.256 of 1000 KV (1 MW) at Railway Power
House, Moghalpura
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TRUCTURE PROJECTS Rs. In Million
Cumulative Progress upto Expenditure 30-6-2016 (in%)
Remarks
upto
Physical Finan-
30-5-2016
cial
7 8 9 10
12,680.423 63% 72.61% i.System Engineering = 92% ii. Material = 90%
iii. Buildings = 77%
281.313
2.93%
iv. Testing & Commissioning = 23%
2,198.218 10% 24.48% i. CTR Completed = 18.5 KMs against 249 KMs.
ii. R.R Completed = 38.00 KMs against 38 KMs.
iii. Level Crossings Upgraded = 7 Nos against 48 Nos.
iv. Topographical Survey KPR-LON = 150 KMs Completed.
22.391 .. 16.52%
v. Bridges Rehabilitated = 5 Nos against 25 Nos.
Study in Progress
262.022 68% 67% PC-II submitted by PIU/CPEC, has been discussed and recommended for approval by CDWP
on 08-06-2016, at a cost of $ 8.2 Billion
91.495 5% 10.82% Work in Progress
74.666 15% 11.31% Work in Progress
104.256 70% 65% Work in Progress
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CONSOLIDATED REPORT ON ALL PSDP INFRAS
S.
Name of Project
Cost of Project as Completion Expected Expenditure
per PC-I/ Received date as per Completion during No. PC-I (Infrastructure PC-I/ Received date 2015-16
Portion Only) PC-I (upto 30-6-16
1 2 3 4 5 6
ONGOING PROJECTS
1 Construction of Staff Quarters 475.000 .. .. 36.802
2 Feasibility Studies for Dedicated 290.224 .. .. 0.000 Freight Corridor for Transporta-
tion of Coal from Karachi to
3
Lahore
59.662
..
Feasibility Studies for Improve- .. 2.715
ment/Up-gradation of Existing
Track Wazirabad-Sialkot-
4
Narowal-Shahdara Section
58.300
Provision of Solar System at Pa- 0.000
kistan Railways, Headquarters
5
Office, Lahore.
1,908.000
30-06-2017
Up-gradation of Concrete Sleeper 5.412
Factories at Khanewal, Sukkur &
Kohat
6 Up-gradation of Terminal Facili- 995.000
ties & Dry Ports
7 Acquisition of Land for New 300.000
Dryport at Baldher, District
Havelian.
0.000
0.000
8 Doubling/Improvement of exist- 1,568.397 31-03-2017 .. 306.183
ing Track from Port Qasim to Bin
Qasim Station (CPEC)
9 Feasibility Studies for Up-grada- 532.000 .. .. 45.732
tion of Existing Main Line-2(ML-
2) and Upgradation & Extension
of ML-3 in connection with CPEC
(Revised)
10 Feasibility Studies (PC-II) for 474.000 .. .. 0.000 Construction of New Rail Link
from Havelian to Pak China Bor-
der (682 KM) (CPEC)
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TRUCTURE PROJECTS Rs. In Million
Cumulative Progress upto Expenditure 30-6-2016 (in%)
Remarks
upto
Physical Finan-
30-5-2016
cial
7 8 9 10
36.802 5% 7,75% Under Process
0.000 .. 0 PC-II has been approved by the CDWP in its meeting held on 11-08-2015, at the
rationalized cost of Rs. 290.224 Million.
2.715 10% 4.55% The Revised PC-II has been approved by the DDWP in is meeting on 24-02-2016.
Feasibility Study is expected to be completed during 2016-17.
0.000 0% 0% The Revised PC_II has been approved by the DDWP in its meeting on 24-02-2016.
5.412 10% 0.28% Work in Progress.
0.000 0% 0.00% Under Process
0.000 0% 0.00% Under Process
306.183 8% 19.52% Under Process
45.732 20% 8.60% Revised PC-II of ML-2 at a cost of Rs. 196.00 Million is under process of approval by the
planning commission.
Revised PC-II of ML-3 at a cost of Rs. 292.00 Million is under process of approval by the
completed Forum.
0.000 .. 0 Under Process
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Future Plan for Upgradation/Extension of Track Network of
Pakistan Railways.
* Under CPEC Project the track from Karachi-Peshawar
(ML-1) and Taxila-Havelian will be upgraded at the speed
of 160 Km/h, which also includes doubling of track from
Peshawar to Lahore.
* The track material released from upgradation of line
Karachi-Peshawar(ML-1) will be utilized for upgradation
of following sections.
S.No. Section Length (KM)
1 Lodhran-Pakpattan-Kasur-Raiwind 371
2 Malakwal-Lilla-Khushab-Kundian 179
3 Sangla Hill-Wazirabad 110
4 Malakwal-Lalamusa 72
5 Haranpur-Gharebwal 15
6 Lahore-Wagha 23
7 Nur-Margalla 7
Total 777
Future Projects of Pakistan Railways
1 Construction of new rail link from Islamabad to Murree
via Muzaffarabad (feasibility study completed).
2 Upgradation of existing Main Line-2 (ML-2) from Kotri to
Attock City (1254Kms) and upgradation/extension of
existing Main Line-3 (ML-3) comprising of Rohri-Sibi-
Quetta & Spezend-Taftan Rail Link (996 Kms) (feasibility
study in progress).
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3 Upgradation /rehabilitation of Shahdara-Narowal-Sialkot-
Wazirabad section and Narowal Chak Amru Section
(feasibility study in progress).
4 Establishing new rail link from Gawadar to Mastung and
from Besima to Jacobabad via Khuzdar (feasibility study
in progress).
5 New rail link between Peshawar and Jalalabad through
Loi-Shalman Valley (feasibility study in progress) .
6 New rail link between Quetta (Bostan to Kotla Jam via Zhob) (feasibility study in progress).
Track Department (Extra Division):
A. Mission Statement.
Maintenance of Track all over Pakistan Railways network
according to the parameters with precision. Vision:
Increasing the capacity of Maintenance and Operation of
Track Machines & Cranes with advanced technology. Current Activities of SME/TM Department (Extra Division):
During the year 2015-2016, 5659.96 km track has been
maintained by Track Machines over the system. Achievements: 3 Track Machines DU 3085,DU 2590.DU 2558 were overhauled Last
year Track Machine DU- 3082 which was burnt during the riots of
Benazir Bhutto has been re-commissioned and put into operation. Future Plans:
It is planned that during the financial year 2015-2016, 6000 Km
of Railway Track will be packed/maintained.
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Track Supply Office:
Mission Statement.
Track supply office is responsible for the supply of track
material for maintenance of Railway track. Track supply office
works as a liaison office amongst CEN/OL, CCP & CCS for
initiating procurements of track material meant for ordinary
maintenance based on demands of operating Division's pre-
acceptance inspections of track maintenance material, and
disposal of scrap which is returned from divisions. Vision:
To avoid imposition of Engineering Speed Restrictions by
ensuring prompt supply of P-way material to avoid deferred
track maintenance. In this regard, TSO office is depended
upon role of operating divisions which should be pro-active.
Current Activities:
Presently track supply office is working on the preparation of
procurement plan for the financial year 2016-17 for
procurement track maintenance items. Facts & Figures: During Financial year 2015-16, TSO Office supplied material for
Track maintenance to operating divisions to the tune of Rs. 1094.000
million & to various PSDP projects costing Rs. 266 million.
Future Plan & Projects: It is planned to streamline the demand and supply position to avoid
deferred track maintenance and to anticipate the expected enhanced
freight traffic commensurating demand of different projects & up-
gradation yards as per requirement of on going signal projects.
Achievements Made During Financial Year 2015-2016: * Arranged & supplied required p-way material for opening of
closed SIBI-HUR section which is closed for the last decade.
* Timely arranged P-way material for track shifting in LHR
yard in-connection with establishment of the Orange Line.
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* Converted boiler of creosoting plant from furnace oil to wooden
scrap as fuel which caused saving of 71.5% cost of fuel.
* Supplied material for remodeling of Padizen, Shorkot &
Lodhran yards & permanent E. Rs removed.
* Formulated distribution of released serviceable p-way material
from different on going projects to branch lines for supplement. Signal Engineering Department:
Mission Statement.
The Signal Engineering department is ambitious for the
planning, design, construction and maintenance of signaling,
interlocking and block (line clear) systems. Vision: Signaling systems are essentially required for efficient and safe
train operation. At present most of the stations are equipped with
mechanical type signaling while modern signaling system such
as all relay interlocking, automatic block signaling centralized
Traffic Control has also been provided at certain stations. Current Activities, Facts & Figures, Future Plan Projects and
Achievements:- There are 123 stations equipped with non- interlocked, mechanical
signaling, 185 stations with standards- I, 20 stations with Standards-
II and 187, stations with Standard -III mechanical signaling whereas
40 stations are equipped with all relay interlocking and 30 stations
equipped with CBI system. Auto block signaling has been provided
on 200 KMs of double line on Landhi-Hyderabad & Lodhran-Multan-
Riazabad sections. Centralized Traffic Control system has been
provided on 24 Kms on Karachi Cantt and Landhi section. It has
been planned to replace the old and obsolete signaling system with
modern systems on the entire network is phases.
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In the first phases, modern systems consisting of Computer
Based Interlocking at 31 stations and auto block system on
433 Km from Shahdara Bagh-Multan-Lodhran section are
being provided under approved project. The aspects of the approaching signal shall also be displayed in the
cab of the Locomotives and the system shall be fit for speeds up to
160 km/hr. Auto train protection systems shall also be provided and
the train will stop automatically in case driver does not apply brakes
while approaching the RED signal. The work is in progress. Another project has been approved to provide Computer Based
Interlocking at 23 stations from Mirpur Mathelo-Shahdadpur section and
Bin Qasim station which were burnt and damaged on 27th December,
2007 on the assassination of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. This work has
been taken in hand and in progress. The restoration work at twenty one
stations and auto block system on Bin Qasim-Hyderabad section has
been completed and opened except Bin Qasim station.
i) PC-I for provision of Computer Based Interlocking
System (CBIs) to replace the existing old obsolete
Signal & Telecommunication system on Lodhran-Kotri
has been sanctioned by ECNEC.
ii) Similarly, PC-I for provision of Computer Based Interlocking
System (CBIs) to replace the existing old obsolete Signal &
Telecommunication systems in Shahdara Bagh-Lalamusa
and Shahdara Bagh-Faisalabad section due to doubling of
track have been submitted to planning division for approval
of Secretary /Chairman, Railway and sanctioned by ECNEC. The provision of modern signaling system on Pakistan
Railways will enhance to safety, speed punctuality of trains.
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Signal Project (Lodhran-Shahdara).
The project for replacement of old and obsolete signal gear from
Lodhran-Shahdara Bagh section of Pakistan Railways has been
approved by ECNEC at a total cost of Rs.10.720 billion with FEC Rs.
7.989 billion and is under execution. Islamic Development Bank is
financing the project equal to US$ 140.000 million. Under this
project, the Computer Based Interlocking shall be installed at 31
stations and Auto Block System at 433 Kms length. Automatic Train
Protection (ATP) shall be provided in 160 locomotives on the section
equipped with the system . The train shall stop automatically, in
case, the driver does not apply brake while approaching red signal.
The CBI system will replace the existing out-lived system on
account of obsolescence as well as pre-requisite of Doubling of
Track. Due to left over work of Doubling of Track. Outstanding
remodeling of yards additional P-Way works cropped up during
execution and escalation in Dollar rate, the project delayed the
revised PC-I for Rs. 17464.000 million with FEC Rs. 12068.000 million
has been approved by ECNEC on 02-03 -2015. IDB loan has been
closed w.e.f 15-05-2015.Ministry of Railways decided to carry out
balance work equivalent to US$ 23.438 million out of Public Sector
Development Programme. LCs have been opened on 23/24-06-2016,
and the imports are likely to resume in 2016- 17. Construction of
equipment, battery and generator rooms etc., at 24 stations have
been completed. Cable works 164 Kms and provision of electric
connections at 25 stations completed and Auto Block System 125
Kms also completed. Computer Based Interlocking at 07 stations
Riazabad, Piran Ghaib, Gilawala, Shujabad Sher Shah, Multan &
Kasowal since completed and opened for traffic. After completion of
the project, the anticipated objective of the project will be achieved
and the heavy investment made by GoP and Railways will bear fruit
by increasing the benefits extended to the travelling public and
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ensuring safety of human life and property at prime level. The work
force mainly consists of the work charged establishment/employees
except a few managerial supervisory posts filled up with the regular
employees taken from the general cadre. The project is at the
advance stage and likely to be completed by 31-12-2017. Signal Reh: Project (Lodhran-Nawabshah)
Mission Statement:
Rehabilitation and Development of Railway Assets which were
damaged during riots of 27th and 28th December, 2007. Organization:
Project Director/Signal Rehabilitation is co-ordinator of the
following units:- 1. Signal & Telecommunication
2. CME/Locomotive.
3. CME/C&W
4. CEN/Open Line (Civil Works)
5. Dy: CEN/Track
Executing Agency: (Pakistan Railways)
Approved by: Dated of Approval Dated of Completion
ECNEC 24-03-2010 31-03-2017
Unit Wise cost of Project is as under: (Figures in PAK in millions)
1. Repair of Locomotives (15 Nos.)
= 600.000
2. Repair of C&W ( 87 Nos.) = 453.000
3. Restoration of signaling & Telecommunication = 6254.165
System (23 stations of CBI system & 44 stations
4.
of Telecom System in Sukkur & Karachi Division)
= 368.788
CEN/Open Line (65 No. Station Buildings
5. Dy: CEN/Track (06 Nos. Repair) = 180.000
Total
=
7855.953
Provision of LC of SEK 410.227 (M) = PKP(M) 4890 (M) included in the total
cost of Project Rs. 7855.953 (M).
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Cumulative Expenditure:
Cumulative Expenditure upto June, 2016=7712.711 (Million)
Achievements: Percentage
S.
Ta rg e ts
Ac hi e ve m ent s Remarks
No.
end of
June, 2016
1 Repair of Locomotives 15 Locomotives 100% Work Completed
2 Repair of Coaches 87 71 Coaches have been 82% Repair of remaining 36 rehabilitated Coaches will be carried
3 Civil Engineering works: out during 2015-16.
63 Buildings Rehabilitated
100% Remaining work will
i. Construction of buildings
track and bridges be carried out during
ii.Track Machines & Cranes i. Bridge crane No. 2228. 2015-16. ii. Burro Crane No. 5565.
iii. P&H Crawal Crane No. 100%
4622
vi. Hitachi Crane No. 1202
v. Tampering machine No.
DU 2589.
Under Repair
vi. Tempering machine No.
4 Signal Rehabilitation DU-3082.
Sukkur and Karachi
Division.
Part-I i. All the work has been 100% Completed
i. KYC Division:
Restoration of Auto Block completed.
between Badalnallah and
Hyderabad section with all
Relay Interlocking system
on 04 stations Gaddar,
Dhabeji, Jhampir, and
Jungshahi.
Part-II Ii Construction of Equipment 98% Remaining work of 2% i.e.
ii. SUK Division: battery and Generator finishing/touching will be
Provision of Computer rooms of 23 stations. completed during 2016
Based Interlocking System iii. Consignments of
95% Remaining material is at 22 stations Sukkur
Division and one station iv.
imported material. expected to be received
(Bin Qasim) of Karachi 20 Stations i.e. Nawabshah upto October 2016.
Division. Sarhari, Bucheri, Lundo,
87% Remaining 03 station i.e. Shahdadpur, Daur, Bandhi,
Jalal Marri, Kot Lalloo, Bhiria remodeling work of PDN
Road, Lakha Road, Setherja, & MRP stations is under
Mahrabpur, Tando Masti Khan, progress whereas Tender
Begmanji, Mahesar & Pano Akil for BQM station is under
have been completed & opened finalization
v. for commercial operation
99% Remaining work of Three stations Bandhi, Kot
Lalloo, & Daur are under Completed 3.79 KM will be testing phase & ready for completed upto
commercial operation shortly. October. 2016.
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TELECOMMUNICATION:
Mission Statement:
To Provide safe, reliable, secure and independent telecom
facilities to Pakistan Railways officers, officials and staff to
facilitate the train working and to provide train control for safe
and efficient train operation.
TELECOMMUNICATION: i) Pakistan Railways Telecommunication System comprises of
Microwave, UHF, VHF & HF Radios Telephone Exchanges
Network, Train Control System, overhead wires along the
Railway Track and underground cable.
ii) M/W Radio systems were installed in 1981 -1982 on
main line from Rawalpindi to Karachi via Lahore -
Faisalabad - Khanewal and on important branch lines
i.e. Kotri - Dadu - Habib Kot - Jacobabad - Kashmor
Colony - Kot Adu -Sher Shah & Wazirabad- Sangla Hill
covering 2700 route kilometers.
iii) Microwave Radio System having 960 channels capacity is
working at 38 sites as backbone. UHF Radio System
having 36 channels capacity is working at 209 stations,
for station to station communication. VHF Radio System
having 519 base stations & equipped on 303 locomotives
provides communication between ASM & Train Drivers.
HF Radio uses single channel for long distance and also
for coded messages.
iv) 20 Electronic & 01 Electro Mechanical type Exchanges are
providing services to 2700 users on Pakistan Railways.
v) Telecommunication facilities available on Pakistan
Railways till date are as under:-
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Telecommunication Facilities:
1. Telephone Exchange
No. of Lines in use/ Telephone
2. Microwave
Radio i) Sites ii) Route Km covered
3. UHF Radio
i) Sites
ii) Route Km covered
4. VHF Radio
i) Base Station
ii) Locomotives equipped with VHF
Raido iii) Walkie Talkie Radio sets iv) Route Km covered
5. Train Control System working on
M.W./UHF Radio equipped with train
consoles at Divisional Headquarters.
6. HF Radio between Divisional Headquarters
and important stations for transmission of
important and emergency messages.
7. Conventional type of equipment is working
on overhead/iron wires along the Railway
Track. This system is old & obsolete.
8. Alternate routes of conventional control system
are working on carrier channels hired from PTCL.
9. Hotlines between Central Control,
Headquarters Office Lahore and Divisional
Control Offices are in operation.
2700 Nos.
38 Nos. 1850 Km
209 Nos. 2700 Km
519 Nos.
303 Nos.
1570 No.
6000 Km
13 Nos
46 Nos.
2515 Km
174 Km
5 No.
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Future Plan: Pakistan Railways intends to replace its existing telecom system with
latest fiber optics based VOIP technology alongwith laying of Fiber
Optics cable along the track and LTE- R for Mobile Communication
system. For this, three different feasibility study has already been
carried out under CEPC (China Pak Economic Corridor) which include
ML-1 (Peshawar-Karachi), ML-(Kotri-Attock City) and (Shahdara-
Narowal-Sialkot-Wazirabad & Narowal-Chak Armu) sections. Further
more for short term basis a PC-I for Up-gradation of VHF
communication system is under process which includes the provision
of digital VHF communication between control office, Station Master,
train driver and at manned L-Xing gates, on ML-1(Peshawar to Karachi)
and Khanewal-Lodhran via chord including khanewal-Shorkot-
Faisalabad-Shahdara Bagh and Wazirabad-Sangla Hill sections. Design Department:
Pakistan Railways Design Office was established in the year 2002,
with the objectives of redefining old Design Codes, to facilitate the
effective and efficient integration of newly acquired technologies
into the existing Codes, Design, Rules and to design new bridges
referred to by Chief Engineer, Chief Engineer/S&C and various
Project Directors. The Design Office has contributed a lot as per its
laid down objectives and has provided all the necessary skill and
knowhow for implementation of new development projects, besides
providing support services to the field staff, for the rehabilitation
and up-gradation of the existing infrastructure. The tasks which this
office is performing successfully are as under:-
i. Providing design of R.C./Pre-stressed Concrete Bridges/
Culverts/Retaining walls/Auxiliary structures to entire Railway
system (all Divisions and Projects) whenever required.
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ii. Vetting of R.C/Pre-stressed concrete bridges crossing the
Railway network and referred by sponsoring agencies/public/
private departments outside Pakistan Railways such as NHA
Provisional Highways, LDA, C&W, Housing Societies etc. to
ensure that the Railway Standard and Codes are followed in
designing of the structures for safety.
iii. Providing services for trouble shooting of operational/
construction problems faced by the field staff during
construction/rehabilitation and up-gradation of the
existing infrastructure in all Divisions.
vi. Development of standards of design for different types of
structures like R.C. Box Culverts, R.C. Slabs, Retaining Walls
so as to provide a quick design for its construction/execution in
the field especially in projects like Doubling of Track, Bridges
Rehabilitation, Track Rehabilitation etc.
v. Adoption of latest Codes and Standards like AREMA, AASHTO,
ACI, for safe and sound design of structures. The state of the
art Software i.e. STAAD Pro., SAP-2000, ETABS, SAFE,
PCACOL, CONCAD & AUTOCAD etc. are used in design in the
latest computer system to make it comparable to any other
modern Design Offices in Government and Private Sectors.
The number of design projects completed and services
provided during the period from 01-07-2015 to 30-06-2016 is
given as under:-
Design of bridges referred by Bridge Branch 5 Nos.
Design of bridges referred by B.R Project 6 Nos.
Design of bridges referred by TR/SUK Project 1 Nos.
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Design of bridges referred by TR/LON-KPR Project 2 Nos.
Vetting of bridges referred by B.R Divisions 4 Nos.
Technical coordination for various ongoing projects with
concerned Railway Divisions, Project Offices and
Design Consultants such as Heavy Repair Shop at
New Diesel Shed Moghalpura, 1-MW Diesel Generator
set Project, boundary walls, drains, pavements etc.
Scrutiny of feasibility studies/reports for the projects of
strengthening & up-gradation of ML-1 & ML-2 Railway
lines under the CPEC Project. Directorate of Property And Land: Mission Statement:
To manage land assets of Pakistan Railways, generate revenue
through Remedial Management and complements,
Pakistan Railways operational growth requirements as
envisaged in its strategic plan. To be the leading assets management organization and
driver for change in Pakistan Railways.
Current Activities:
Commercial Exploitation of Railway Land. While fixing the earning targets through leasing/licensing
of land, Railway Divisions identify surplus land parcels
and exploit the same to its optimum commercial potential
as per the suitability of the site.
M/s RAILCOP, PRACS and REDAMCO have also been
entrusted to construct the Rail shops, markets/ plazas
at approved sites to generate revenue.
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Vision:
Commercial exploitation of prime locations for
constructions of shops/Commercialization through
these Railway subsidiary companies to generate more
revenue has been initiated.
The construction work on most of the sites mode
available has completed and hand some revenue has
been generated through marketing of these project in a
transparent manner.
Policy formation: Policy for leasing / licensing of Railway land have been reviewed in
order to make it more competitive, transparent keeping in view the
market trends & development of Real Estate business in private
sector. In addition to above, the policy of Remedial Management of
commercial structures on Railway land has been introduced under
which the encroached commercial land shall be regularized under
an agreement. This policy shall be applicable till 31-12-2016.
Facts & Figures:
Pakistan Railway owns 1,67,690 acres land all over the country. The
province wise detail is as under:-
Area of Land(acres) Province
Punjab 90,326
Sind 39,428
Balochistan 28,228
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 9,708 Total 1,67,690
a) As a result of successful anti encroachment operations,
Pakistan Railways managed to retrieve/ regularize
3536.582 acres land from encroachers since 1st
February 2012 with the assistance of Railway Police &
District Administration.
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b) Anti-encroachment operation of Railway land from
encroachers is in progress all over the Railway
network and 109.998 acre Railway land was retrieved
during the financial year 2015-16 as detailed below and
this retrieved land is planned to be utilized through
short term leasing in a transparent manner
Kind of Ench: PSC RWP LHR MGPR MUL SUK KYC QTA Total
(Comm: 0.68 4.77 6.07 0 13.98 2.764 3.66 0.76 32.684
Residtl: 0 3.88 0.94 0.34 13.45 2.509 0.67 0.35 22.139
Agri: 0.315 0 0 0 54.32 0 0.54 0 55.175
Total:- 0.995 8.65 7.01 0.34 81.75 5.273 4.87 1.11 109.998
6. Future Plans & Projects.
A project for computerization of Railway land record has
been initiated and Memorandum of understanding (MoU)
signed between Sr. General Manager/CEO Pakistan
Railways and Punjab Urban Unit, Government of Punjab for
technical assistance regarding computerization of Railway
land record and to harmonize it with the record of Provincial
Revenue Department. According to the terms of Reference
(TOR), all the available land plans have been scanned and
verified with land record of Revenue department. The
project is likely to be completed by December, 2016 which
will not only result in the complete computerization of land
record of Pakistan Railways but will facilitate the common
user to identify the desired Railway land parcel on his
computer on Google Earth. This will surely be a landmark in
the achievements of land Directorate and will be helpful in
issues like title of land, encroachments, leasing & revenue
generation.
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7. Achievements: Pakistan Railways managed to generate a revenue of
Rs. 1589.831 million during the financial year 2015-
2016 through short term leasing and this is the best
ever generation of revenue through non -core Railway
business in the history of Pakistan Railways.
The bill receivable amounting to Rs. 462.711 million
against Food Department Punjab till 30-06-2016 has
been recovered and there is no outstanding bills at
present against Food Department Punjab.
109.998 acres Railway land has been retrieved from all
over the Railway network during 2015- 2016.
W ith concerted efforts, Pakistan Railway has been
successful in mutating 1754 .135 acres of land in p r o
v i n c e o f K h yb e r P a k h t u n k h w a , w h i l e ve r
y serious efforts both administratively and through
competent individual forum is being executed to
mutate land in favour of Pakistan Railways.
Directorate of Information Technology: The Directorate of Information Technology is headed by the Director and
assisted by number of officers and staff who are specialized in different
areas of automation. The management of Pakistan Railways hired a
competent professional on the post of Director Information Technology in
the year 2014 to materialize the objectives of automation on latest tools and
techniques. The management further upgraded the Directorate by hiring
eight more IT professionals from the market to make the automation in an
organization viable. The existing management of IT Directorate launched
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ACHIVEMENTS
DEVELOPMENT OF E-TICKETING SYSTEM
It was decided by the management of Pakistan Railways to
develop E-Ticketing system on latest technology indigenously.
In order to implement this idea Pakistan Railways hired IT
professionals from the market and developed the software,
which is at present deployed and in operation since 22-05-2016.
The deployment of E-Ticketing project has not only placed this
organization among the list of those organizations which have
implemented latest technology. NEW OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR PAKISTAN RAILWAYS
The Directorate of IT has developed new website in house,
in latest tools and techniques www.pakrail.gov.pk . This
website is more informative, user’s friendly and made
more secure from intrusion. The access of E-Ticketing
portal is the main ingredient of new website. ATTENDANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM VIA FACE RECOGNIZATION
This system has since been introduced in IT Directorate
for more than one and half year, which is performing
successfully covering all management reports as well. Wi-Fi IN RUNNING TRAIN
On the advice of higher management, internet Wi-Fi was first time
introduced in running trains with other value added features. The best
available ISP (PTCL) service accessible in Pakistan in terms of signal
coverage along the track, is providing internet service. Directorate of IT
has also arranged a third party (National Institute of Electronics,
Ministry of Science & Technology) for the survey and suggestions for
the enhancement of quality of service to the passengers.
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SMS ALERT SYSTEM
SMS alert service for PR Passengers has been launched,
all passengers receive welcome message when they get
their tickets booked in Green Line Train. SMS delivery to
the passengers after booking of seats through web based
E -Ticketing System has been made mandatory, carrying
all the information about reservation made through this
system. Directorate of IT intends to start SMS alert service
in all trains to facilitate all passengers in future. INSTALLATION OF SAP IN RAILWAYS
The deployment of ERP system has been introduced in Pakistan
Railways in terms of SAP System in collaboration with PIFRA. At
present pensioners module has been deployed successfully
which is being extended to all over the divisions of Pakistan
Railways. The Directorate of IT has connected all Divisions of PR
with Data Center at Railway Headquarters Office, Lahore for the
data entry of pensioners at divisional level as well. Tentatively,
the data of 21,500 pensioners have been entered into SAP
System up till 30-07-2016. UP GRADATION OF PAYROLL SYSTEM
Directorate of IT has upgraded payroll from Oracle 7 to Oracle
11i (latest version) for HQ. Office, Lahore and all other divisions
of Pakistan Railways. At present, divisions are independent and
able to generate their payroll system in their own premises.
Before the up-gradation of this system divisional staff including
the personnel from Ministry of Railways used to visit PR HQ
Office Lahore for payroll data entry and output reports.
ELECTRIC BILLING SYSTEM
The Electric Billing System has been made operational
for Lahore and Workshop Divisions. The rest of
Divisions will be automated soon.
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MAINTANANCE OF SOCIAL SITES
The Directorate is assisting Directorate of Public Relation
in maintaining social sites regarding newspaper clips
advertisement news alerts. The Directorate is also
associating in replying frequently asked questions
concerning E – Ticketing project at social sites.
MOBILE APPLICATION
The Directorate of IT has developed a mobile application
based upon Android System. Passengers of PR can not only
reserve their seats but can also pay the ticket amount by
using this mobile application. This application will also
facilitate the passengers about trains timing, fare calculation
and PR news alerts. This will be launched soon.
JOURNALIST DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
I.T. Department has developed software application for
Journalist Concession Card Management. All the related data for
journalist concession card across Pakistan will be managed by
the Directorate of Public Relation. Software has been prepared
and will be linked with the centralized reservation center as well.
OPERATION OF DIRECTORATE OF IT
Directorate of IT is now operational 24 x 7 as E-Ticketing
and SAP Servers are now functioning round the clock
for accessing the system online through internet.
Necessary arrangement for 24 x 7 operation has been
made with the existing manpower of this Directorate. INTERNET FACILITY IN PR HQ
Entire PR Headquarter Office is covered with internet
service. Internet facility is also been provided at MOR
via PR Headquarters office (as backup link). Internet
bandwidth for HQ office has also been increased from
15 MB to 50 MB under controlled environment.
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PROCUREMENT OF HARDWARE
After the lapse of 13 years latest hardware available in
the market has been procured and made operational
which includes Servers, Desktop, Laptops, Printers,
Line printers & UPSs etc. for reservation offices. ESTABLISHMENT OF DISASTER RECOVERY (DR) SITE
Directorate of IT has successfully established Disaster
Recovery (DR) site at PTCL Data Center, Lahore. In case
of disaster E-ticketing services will automatically be
started transparently from DR Site. UP GRADATION OF IT INFRASTRUCTURE
Directorate of IT has upgraded the existing Wide Area Network
infrastructure based on DXX links with MPLS Fiber optic/
Wireless. Newly developed links are not only much faster in
speed but also very cost effective. The existing system of video
conferencing has also been replaced by MPLS. DEVELOPMENT OF NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Directorate of IT has deployed network management
system, for the monitoring of networks pertaining to all
Reservation / Divisional Reservation Offices across
Pakistan. The Network Management System also intimate
the status of networks at remote sites. This arrangement
keeps track of up and down time of the network as well. DEVELOPMENT OF EARNING MONITORING SYSTEM
As the E – Ticketing System has now been deployed on the latest
tools and techniques, in order to facilitate the management about
the earning at the day end, train wise earning portal has been
devised. This portal indicates complete information about the
financial aspect from the commercial point of view and provide the
live incremental financial position with respect to passenger earing.
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CAPACITY BUILDING OF DIRECTORATE OF IT
The Directorate is arranging training session for IT Staff
from reputed IT firm free of cost. The first Training
session with CISCO has been conducted, next training
sessions will be arranged in a shorter span of time. DEVELOPMENT OF PROMOTIONAL COURSES
The Directorate of IT has prepared curriculum /
promotional courses for promotion of IT Staff from BS-7
to BS-17. The onward promotions of staff would be
conducted purely on merit under prevailing rules.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT IN DEVELOPMENT OF FIS /MIS
PROJECT
On the advice of the management, Directorate of IT is
providing technical support to PMU regarding development of
FIS/MIS project and automation of Land Record. FILE TRANSFER SERVER FOR PUBLIC RELATION OFFICE
The dedicated space in the server for the transferring of files
directly to the newspaper, news agencies has been reserved
for the office of Director General Public Relation which has
created ease of work in their daily routine activities. DIGITAL LIBRARY
In order to create a pace with the latest technology available in the
field of information technology, the concept of creating digital
library for the people within and out of the organization has been
introduced. The manuals related to the commercial and civil
engineering have already been digitized in the first phase. The rest
of reading material pertaining to the rest of the departments will be
made available on computers in the near future.
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FILE SHARING SERVER
The use of Flash Drive is the major source of spreading
out viruses in attached computers in a network. To
eliminate the deadly repercussions of the viruses, the
file sharing server has been introduced, where every
user can share his files among multiple users.
FUTURE VISION / PROJECTS
ESTABLISHMENT OF DATA CENTER
Pakistan Railways need to establish Data center on latest
techniques for the placement of Servers like Web server,
email server, SAP Servers, FIS/MIS Servers, e-ticketing
servers etc. in a secure mode as per industrial standards. PAKISTAN RAILWAYS EMPLOYEE CARDS THROUGH NADRA
Employee cards are being redesigned with the
collaboration of NADRA, Islamabad. Number of
meetings have been conducted by the nominated team
of Pakistan Railways with NADRA concerned personnel. LABORATORY SOFTWARE FOR CAIRNS HOSPITAL LAHORE
The in-house software development of Pathology lab. of
Cairns Hospital is in process. The same would be deployed in
the near future. Afterward hospital management system
would be developed in web based tools.
IMPLEMENTATION OF IP TELEPHONE
Directorate of IT intends to implement IP Telephones
across Pakistan Railways by using existing
infrastructure of the organization.
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CARD PASSES AND CONCESSION VOUCHERS
All data related to Card Passes and Concession Vouchers
will be managed centrally and access would be extended
to the concerned user for proper management.
ESTABLISHMENT OF CALL CENTER
Pakistan Railways needs to establish Call Center to
facilitate the passengers not only to provide the
information about train related issues but also to
improve Railways business in the light of suggestions.
ESTABLISHMENT OF CENTRALIZED CONTROL ROOM
Pakistan Railways intends to establishment centralized control
room for the monitoring of all trains across Pakistan. Tracking
devices will be installed on all locomotives and a video wall will
be mounted in Central Control Room to witness the performance
of each train in terms of various parameters on real time basis. FUTURE UPGRDATION OF E – TICKETING PROJECT
Directorate of IT would shortly implement the automation of EFT
and PCT which at present is being prepared manually. The
issuance of EFTs via handheld devices would not only evaluate
the performance of STEs and Ticket Checkers in running trains
but will also play active role in eliminating malpractices. INSTALLATION OF BIO-MATRIC SYSTEM
Bio-Matric attendance system will be installed in PR HQ
and DS offices to make sure the accurate attendance of
all employees. The leave record and salaries will also
connect with Bio-Matric attendance system.
AUTOMATION OF FREIGHT TRAINS OPERATION
After successful implementation of the new reservation system,
I.T department has planned to automate and provide the booking
facility for freight trains as well. All operations which are being
conducted manually at present would be automated.
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B. Mechanical :
The Mechanical unit is headed by the Additional General Manager/Mechanical
who is assisted by the following heads of department :-
1. Chief Mechanical Engineer/Carriages & Wagons.
2. Chief Controller of Purchase.
3. Chief Controller of Stores.
4. Chief Electrical Engineer.
Carriages:
S.No. Description B.G. N.G. M.G Total
1. Passenger Coaches 1484 - - 1484
2. Brake Vans 250 - - 250
3. Other Vehicles 274 - - 274
.
Achievements: i). A project of Rehabilitation of 400 coaches is in progress
at CFI. Till now, 360 Coaches have already been turned
out for service.
ii). A project of Rehabilitation of 87 burnt coaches is in
progress at C&W Shop / MGPR and 68 Nos. of coaches
have already been turned out for service. The following rakes have been refurbished with value addition:
S. Train Rakes Turnout date
No.
1. Green Line Express 5 Up / 6 Dn 3 Rakes 11.12.13-5-2015.
2. Karakoram Express 41 Up / 42 Dn 2 Rakes 21-22-11-2015
3. Business Express 303Up / 304 Dn 2 Rakes 31-01-2016
4. Karachi Express 15 Up / 16 Dn 2 Rakes 15-03-2016
5. Multan Express 117Up / 118 Dn 1 Rake 13-04-2016
6. Musa Pak 115Up / 116 Dn 1 Rake 14-04-2016
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Train No.
Wagons:
S. No. Description B.G. Total.
1. Covered Wagons. 4350 4350
2. Open Wagons. 4478 4478
3. For Container. 1952 1952
4. Tank Wagons 3034 3034
5. Special Type Wagons. 619 619
6. Departmental wagons 628 628
7. Brake Vans. 263 263
8. Four wheeled wagons. 9661 9661
9. Eight wheeled wagons. 5663 5663
10. Freight wagons in numbers. 15324 15324
11. Goods wagons in terms of 4-wheeled. 20987 20987
12. Carrying capacity of freight wagons in tones. 465911.4 465911.4 1. Average ineffective of Goods Stock during the year 2015-16 = 26.6 %.
2. Bailout package for 350 BKFCs and 300 BTOs for conversion
into Air Brake System from Vacuum Brake is in pipeline.
3. Under the project of 500 High Capacity Wagons, 50
Bogie Tank Wagons and 02 Bogie Flat Container has
been received as CBU and the manufacturing of the
remaining CKD Wagons have been completed in Loco
Construction Shops, MGPR only 110 High Capacity Tank
Wagons are remaining to be manufactured.
4. PC-1 for special repair of 2000 (Nos.) has been approved and
procurement of material is under process. 652 Wagons have
been turned from C&W Shops, MGPR upto 31-05-2016.
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5. PC-1 for procurement /manufacturing of 780 High Capacity
Hopper Wagons + 20 Brake Vans has been approved by ECNEC
and the contract has been signed with M/s JINAN Railway
Rolling Stock, China. CBU shipment schedule for 30 CBUs and
140 CKDs material expected to be shipped in June, 2016.
6. PC-1 for 830- High Capacity Wagons has been prepared
and submitted to Ministry of Railways for approval.
7. The contract agreement for the procurement / manufacturing
of 585 High Capacity Hopper Wagons + 20 Bogie Brake Vans
is under process with Director Procurement, Islamabad.
8. PC-1 for procurement of 345- High Capacity Hooper
Wagons + 06 Bogie Brake Vans for Jamshoro has been
approved by the ECNEC. The International Tender is
under process with Director
Procurement, Islamabad.
S.
Description Quantity Remarks No.
1 DE Locos 448 Nos. An average daily 277 Nos. locomotives
remained available for various services. The
remaining locomotives are stabled for
imported spares.
2 Steam Locos ( 5 BG + 7 MG ) Steam safari Operates as per demand of M/s = 12 Nos. PRACS.
As a result of special repair projects and better maintenance of
DE Locomotive, availability and reliability is improved and
maximum number of freight trains were exported, resulting
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Locomotives:
Material Management:
A. Purchase Department:
Supply system is the lifeline of any organization like Pakistan
Railways being a multi-disciplined organization. In Pakistan
Railways this purpose is served by purchase Department headed
by chief controller of purchase. The objective is to provide
maintenance stores & spares for efficient and safe running of
Rolling Stock such as Steam Locomotives, Diesel Electric
Locomotives, Passenger Coaches and Freight Wagons. The
system also cater for the maintenance requirement of material for
Track Signaling System, Bridges etc. The material is required for
the Railways Workshops and Sheds is also either purchased or
manufactured in Workshops. There are about 15400 shop made
regular buy-out and emergency stock items which are purchased
every year besides a good number of non-stock items. Broad analysis of purchases made during the year 2015-16 is given below:-
(Rupees in Million)
Imports 2127.056 Custom Duty & Sales Tax etc 248.363
Indigenous Purchases -- CCP/TSO 2155.669 Steel Shop/MGPR
6.003 Divisional Superintendents 13.423 Other than CCP 12.611
Sea Freight (Internal) 75.811 Fuel other than operation
purposes -- Value added in Workshops 252.206 Value added in
Steel Shops 302.042
TOTAL 5510.97
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Mode of Procurement:
The Purchase Branch of Pakistan Railways was created in
1961, when Railway had dis-linked from the Directorate of
General Supplies & Development, Ministry of Industries,
Government of Pakistan. All the purchases are made through
tender system according to the modern principals of Supply
Management. Now as per PPRA rules, procurement is mostly
made through Advertised Tenders, where expected total
amount of any item is more than Rs. 1,00,000/ - and less than
Rs. 20,00,000/ -. Advertisement notices are displayed on
Railway’s Website www.pakrail.com and PPRA’s Website
www.ppra.org.pk. Beyond that limit tender notices are
advertised in print media as well.
Quality Control and Inspection: There are two Inspectorates located at Moghalpura, Lahore and Karachi
Cantt: where the material purchased locally is supplied by the firms.
These supplies are got tested and accepted if found according to the
governing specifications stipulated in the contracts.
Imported Material:
All the material purchased by the Pakistan Railways from abroad
is cleared by its own clearing agent i.e. District Controller of
Stores (Shipping), Pakistan Railways Karachi Cantt, at Deputy
Chief Controller of stores office, Karachi Cantt.
B. Stores Department:
Mission Statement:
Right product at the right price, in the right quantity, at the
right time and at the right place is made available.
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Current Activities and Achievements:
Stocking Depots: 15,400 regular stock items pertaining to Mechanical, Civil, Electrical,
Signal & Telecommunication Departments and different other
consumers are stocked in 17 Stocking Depots located at Lahore,
Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Quetta, Jehlum and Rawalpindi to
ensure un-interrupted supply of material to the end users. Distribution of Material:
The distribution of material is a major activity to get the
material received in safe and sound condition at the door step
of the consumers and to collect the un-utilized stores returned
from indenters. The Central Transportation Section (CTS) at
General Stores, Mughalpura handles it and in case of any
emergency, the special escorts are engaged for distribution of
material except the flammable items.
Scrap, Surplus and obsolete Material: An important issue of Stores department is the disposal of scrap,
surplus and obsolete materials, which is generated during normal
course of operation of Railway System. After inspection by a Survey
Committee to assess the possibilities of utilization in the system,
material declared scrap is sold out through open Tenders. On
implementation of New Scrap Policy, duly approved by Ministry of
the Railways, Islamabad, in the year 2013- 14, the Railway Divisions
as well as Locomotive Factory, Risalpur, Carriage Factory,
Islamabad and Concrete Sleeper Factories have also been allowed
to dispose off their scrap for speedy generation of revenue for
Railways. During the year 2015-16 scrap utilized in Railways system
for manufacturing of Shop made items and also sold out.
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Computerization:
All the depots provide Material Source Documents to I.T. Direc-
torate Pakistan Railways Headquarters Office, Lahore where
necessary data is fed for processing and reports for each depot,
covering total transactions made. Various other reports regarding
buyout and shop made items, as well as details of surplus stocks
and over stocks are also produced regularly.
Printing Press:
Pakistan Railway has its own Printing Press at General Stores,
Mughalpura Lahore which caters for all the requirements of print-ing
of forms, and different stationery items. The Printing Press is
equipped with offset Machines and Computers for printing and
composing of various Jobs. Pakistan Railway Year Book, Summer
and Winter Time Table for Passenger/Freight Trains (for official use
only) and Annual Audit Reports are also the products of this press.
Clothing Factory:
It stitches different clothing items for different departments of
Pakistan Railways according to their requirements.
Shipping Wing Karachi Cantt:
Imported Revenue and PSDP consignments valuing billions of
rupees purchased by Pakistan Railways from the abroad got
cleared from customs through its own clearing agent i.e.
District Controller of Stores (Shipping),at Deputy Chief
Controller of Stores Office, Karachi Cantt.
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Electrical Engineering Department:
The Electrical Engineering Department is further sub-divided into
two department i.e. Passenger Services & Electrical Power. The
electrical power department is providing support services in the
maintenance of Locomotives, Coaches and allied Machinery in
Workshops. Moreover, electrical power is supplied to Railway
Stations, signaling system and water pumps installed for water
supply at stations and in Railway colonies. Railways Electrification: The other function of electric department was to maintain and operate
electric traction system between Lahore to Khanewal which was installed
on single line in 1969 with a fleet of 29 Electric Locomotives. It remained in
operation upto October, 2009. After start of Doubling of Track work from
Khanewal to Raiwind, the operation of train with ET Locomotives was
suspended. After completion of Doubling of Track between Khanewal-
Sahiwal section the ET operation on single line was not possible, hence it
was completely closed in 2009. Now the electrification of main line (ML-1)
from Peshawar to Karachi is being considered under Pak -China Economic
Corridor (CPEC), during second phase.
The Electrical Engineering Department is dealing with the
operation and maintenance of Power vans, TL vans, ordinary/
Air conditioned coaches and saloons etc in order to provide
reliable service to the passengers of mail & express trains. In
addition, Electrical Engineering Department is responsible for
maintenance of Electrical Supply network and electrified
section of the Railways.
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Train Operation:
Electrical Engineering Department is fully involved in train
operation by maintaining the total No. of coaches of various
types. In order to bring improvement in the quality service to
the passengers, Pakistan Railways procured 40 new Power
vans. The following achievements were made during the
financial year 2015-2016.
1. New 48 No. Perkins D.G Sets have been purchased for
Power Vans and are under manufacturing at CFI.
2. Musa Pak Train with AC Coaches has been launched.
3. AC Service has been introduced in Maher Express 127
UP/128 DN,
Awam Express 13 UP/14 DN, Kushal Khan Khatak 19
UP/20 DN, Bolan Mail 3 UP/4 DN, and Fareed Express
37 UP/38 DN.
4. 16 Nos. 100KVA DG Sets have been Procured for train
operation.
5. 30 Nos. 30KVA DG Sets Procured for train operation.
6. New rake launched for Bolan Mail, Khushal Khan
Khatak, Hazara Express, Fareed Express for improved
quality services to passengers.
7. Value added coaches with public address system, broad
casting system and WiFi system introduced in
Karakoram Express, Karachi Express, Business Express.
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8. Project of Conversion of 260 Coaches from 110 V to
220 V is initiated. Future Plan:
1. Two Diesel generating sets 1000KW (1 Megawatt) at
Railway Power House Mughalpura are being replaced
for continuous electricity supply to MGPR Workshops
during load shedding.
2. Conversion of 260 passenger coaches from 110 AC/24
DC volts to 220 volts by the end of 2016.
3. 33 No. Power van operators has been recruited for
reliable operation of Power vans in 2014-2015.
4. Installation and commissioning of solar system at
Headquarters office and all Divisional Superintendents
office would be completed by June, 2017.
5. Electrification of track (E.T) from Lahore to Karachi
would be carried out against the project of ML -I (CPEC).
6. Creation of maintenance facilities at Peshawar,
Rawalpindi, Karachi & Lahore division for overhauling
of TL van and Power van DG Sets.
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C. Traffic:
The Traffic Unit is headed by the Additional General Manager
Traffic, who is assisted by the following Heads of Department:-
1. Chief Commercial Manager. 2. Chief Operating Superintendent. 3. Chief Marketing Manager. 4. Chief Traffic Manager. 5. Chief Customer Facilitation Manager / CCM / Freight.
Passenger Department:
The passenger wing of commercial department of Pakistan Railways
responsible for the creation, maintenance and delivery of passenger
services and all related amenities to the traveling public, including
the Transportation of Parcel Traffic. The Passenger Wing of
Commercial Department is headed by the Chief Commercial
Manager who is assisted by the following Officer:-
1. Deputy Chief Commercial Manager. = 2
2. Senior Commercial Manager. = 1
3. Assistant Commercial Manager. = 9
Miscellaneous Information:
Pakistan Railways has earned Rs. 20852.052 millions under
the passenger head against the budgetary target of
Rs.17461.579 millions and against the earning of Rs.
17448.064 millions during the corresponding period of the
previous year. It is also mentioned that Rs.1747.122 millions
have been earned under the head of Other Coaching Earning
against the budgetary target of Rs. 1221.646 millions and
against the revenue of Rs. 1292.034 millions
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earned during the corresponding period of the previous
year. It is further added that under the head of sundry
earning, Pakistan Railways earned Rs. 1365.060 millions
during the financial year, 2015-2016. As a result of surprise raids by the STEs nominated by
Headquarters Office as well as Divisions in important trains along
with Train Managers during the Financial Year 2014-15, an amount
of Rs. 771.644 millions has been realized, which is Rs. 131.574
millions more than the corresponding period of 2014-2015. Value-addition of 15UP/16DN (Karachi Express).
41UP/42DN Karakoram Express) and 303UP/304DN
(Business Express) has been completed during
Financial Year 2015-2016. Promoting the image of
Pakistan Railways and providing better services. Pakistan Railways earned Rs. 245.636 millions from the
attachment of extra coaches with various trains during
the Financial Year 2015-2016. Pakistan Railways earned Rs. 24.111 millions from
special trains i.e. Eid specials, Sikh special during the
financial Year 2015-2016. In order to facilitate the passenger between Lahore and
Multan an express train (117 UP/118 DN Multan Express)
has been started during the year 2015-2016. One of the most important project initiated by commercial
and IT Department this year is e-ticketing. The agreement
has been signed between Pakistan Railways and UBL to
launch this project by October 2016 to ensure a new
culture of reservation and passenger facilitation by
reducing physical visits to reservation offices.
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Statement of Ticketless Checking From July - June 2015-2016.
S.
Month Cases Fare Penalty Total No.
1. July-2015 98778 57875615 7685555 65561170
2. August-2015 90717 51815108 7125505 58940613
3. September-2015 86409 58909070 7902845 66811915
4. October-2015 101063 61625685 7528000 69153685
5. November-2015 82854 51586660 6435940 58022600
6. December-2015 92143 60089710 7243948 67333658
7. January-2016 88453 55688372 6974303 62662675
8. February-2016 83222 51955650 6325285 58280935
9. March-2016 95479 62831985 7279585 70111570
10. April-2016 92950 61722935 7155050 68877985
11. May-2016 90470 59963115 7186820 67149935
12. June-2016 80488 52251650 6486416 58738066
G/Total 1,083,026 686,315,555 85,329,252 771,644,807 The total number of Stations/Halts open for traffic on Pakistan Railways
and number of City Booking Agencies, run by PRACS are as under:-
S. No. Division Station Halts Total
1. Peshawar 44 3 47
2. Rawalpindi 55 21 76
3. Lahore 141 -- 141
4. Multan 112 2 114
5. Sukkur 78 3 81
6. Karachi 59 8 67
7. Quetta
Total
33 .. 33
512 37 559
City Booking Agencies run by PRACS= 22
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Running of Special Trains form 1st July, 2015 to 30th
June, 2016 (Up & Down).
S. No. Month Special Train Total
1. July-2015 Eid-ul -Fiter Special =23 25
Local Sikh Yatrees Spl:1
CGM Spl: 1
2. Aug-2015 NIL Nil
3. Sep-2015 Eid-ul-Azha Special = 10 10
4. Oct-2015 Raiwind SPL Train = 1 1
5. Nov-2015 Raiwind SPL Train = 5 13
Local Sikh+ Indian Sikh Spl 5+3
6. Dec-2015 Nil
7. Jan-2016 Nil
8. Feb-2016 Nil
9. Mar-2016 RND Spl: KYC-RND QTA-RND 1+1 2
10. April-2016 Indian Sikh Spl: 3 Nil
Local Sikh Spl: 2 5
11. May-2016 LHR-SWN 1 3
LHR-SWN 1
LHT+FSLD -SWN 3
12. June-2016 INDIAN SIKH SPL 2
Total 61
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Running of Extra Coaches from 1st July, 2015 to 30th June, 2016
(Up & Dn)
S. No. Month Down Up Total
1. July-2015 100 100 200
2. Aug-2015 232 232 462
3. Sep-2015 155 155 310
4. Oct-2015 87 86 173
5. Nov-2015 53 49 102
6. Dec-2015 154 154 308
7. Jan-2016 247 247 484 8. Feb-2016 204 204 408
9. Mar-2016 230 230 460
10. April-2016 131 134 265
11. May-2016 132 149 281
12. June-2016 14 17 31
1730 1757 3487
Operating Department:
Freight Loading:
wagons were loaded on the During the year 2015 -16, 249794
entire system against 176155 wagons during the corresponding
period registering increase of 67639 wagons (+ 38%) .
Comparative loading of all divisions remained as under:
Divisions 2015-16 2014-15 Variation
Karachi 152662 112036 40626 Sukkur 11129 6642 4487
5277
Multan 14225 8948
Lahore 47404 33152 14252
Rawalpindi 5198 5193 5
Peshawar 11658 9779 1879
Quetta
Total
1518 405 1113
243794 176155 67639
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Safety of Trains:
The comparative figures of the accidents with description for the
calendar years 2014-2015 is given below:-
Description of Accidents Number of Accidents Variation 2014 2015
Collisions of Passenger Train - - 2
Derailment of Passenger Trains. 16 37 - 21
Derailment of Mixed trains - 1 1
Derailment of Goods Trains. 22 37 - 15
Collision of train with road vehicle at 13 16 3
Manned level Crossings
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Collision of train with road vehicles at 65 - 16
Un-Manned level Crossings
16
-
Fire in Trains 11 - 5
Others 5 6 - 3
Total 121 175 54 No transport system is totally free from accidents, however,
Pakistan Railways is fully conscious of its responsibility towards
safe train operation. As depicted above, the number of accidents
had increased on account of increased number of trains. Out of the
total number of reported accidents a majority of accident occurred
on manned/unmanned level crossings in which responsibility lies
with the road users and are not on behalf of Pakistan Railways. The following measures have been adopted for prevention of accidents.
1 Pakistan Railways has intensified its inspections by its Officers
and Inspectorate staff to make rail travel safer Stress is being
laid on surprise night inspections to ensure that staff at stations
performs their duties in accordance with laid down rules.
2 The district governments have been involved by the Pakistan
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3 Safety seminars and safety meetings have been held at
the Headquarters and Divisional level for enhancing
awareness of managers. 4 According to the vision of the CEO/Sr. GM Railways
expressed in the safety seminars held at Headquarters Office in the month of May, 2016 the CEO/Sr GM stated:- "I intend to make Pakistan Railways the safest, superb
and sought after mode of travel in the region".
5 Computer based interlocking (CBI) new signaling system
is being introduced over Nawab Shah and Pano Akil
section of Sukkur division and Lodhran and Shahdra Bagh
sections of Multan division which will increase the
operational efficiency through incorporation of new safety
feature as ATP and track circuiting. 6 Maintenance staff has been instructed to be extremely
cautious with regard to maintenance of track rolling
stock & signaling gears. 7 Special Bulletins/Instructions for the guidance of staff
are issued on monthly basis by the Headquarters Office
as well as Operating Divisions.
8 Training and refresher courses for the staff are
arranged/held regularly at the Railway Academy, Walton.
9 Patrolling of the track has been intensified by the officers/
Officials of Engineering Department of Pakistan Railways.
The strength of Patrollers has been increased on important
sections from 2 to 4 in each gang from Sunset to Sunrise.
10 The quota of Station Master Inspection has been increased
from 4 inspections per month to 6 inspections per month
night inspections and personally pass one Up & Down train.
They then record the reception/ dispatch particulars in the
train register and report his presence to the section
controller on duty, who in turn records it on the train graph.
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Punctuality:
The punctuality position of Mail/Express and Intercity trains
during the period from 1st July, 2015 to 30th June, 2016. As
compared to the corresponding period is as under:-
Trains Period
Variation 2015-2016 2014-2015
Mail /Express
53% 36% 17%
Intercity 77% 70% 7 % 17% increase in the punctuality of Mail/Express trains is due to concerted
efforts of all concerned branches by stream lining the available resources.
More efforts are underway to bring further improvement.
Marketing Department:
Mission Statement of the Marketing Department: Our vision is to transform Pakistan Railways to such a level where
all assets are utilized at optimum level. To accomplish this mission,
we resolve to apply progressive marketing techniques in our
department through dedicated professional with a commitment to
make Pakistan Railways an ultramodern and economically
successful organization with ultimate goal of customer satisfaction. Important Goals:
1. To increase interaction with Customers and the
Business Community.
2. To promote Public Private Partnership and to adopt
confidence building measures.
3. To prepare plans for optimum utilization of core assets of
the department to increase maximum revenue receipts. Organization Hierarchy: The Marketing Department is headed by the Chief Marketing
Manager who is assisted by the Deputy Chief Marketing Manager,
Senior Rates Officer and Assistant Commercial Managers.
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Scope of Work:
Preparation of budget, monitoring of earnings and
analysis of shortfall, its causes and remedial strategies.
Amendment and Periodic review of Rate structures to
attract customers in both Passenger & Freight Sector.
Exploring new avenues for the purpose of marketing the
latest services offered by Pakistan Railways.
Competitive analysis of logistic & transportation
industry and redefining role of Pakistan Railways.
Suggesting policy guideline to develop methodology for
maximum utilization of assets.
Executing various agreements carried out with private
parties or public entities through marketing efforts.
Marketing Department During 2015-16:
Marketing is a form of communication between an organization and
its customers with the goal of selling products or services to them.
Communicating the value of services is a key aspect of marketing.
Marketing department was created in Railways to develop a strategy
for reaching out to customers and encouraging them to use the
services offered by the organization. Marketing department was reformed to capture the market share of core
business activities of the Pakistan Railways after using its best
potential. Robust efforts put in by marketing wing of Pakistan Railways
has resulted in the following landmark achievement during last year.
Performance has shown a considerable improvement during
financial year 2015-2016. Revenue amounting to Rs. 36581.865/-
million was generated as compared to Rs. 31924.758/- million
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during fiscal year 2014-2015. This increase of Rs.
4657.107/-million i.e. 14.6% more than last year speaks
volumes about excellent performance of the organization.
This earning also surpassed the budgetary target of Rs.
32000.000/ - million by Rs. 4581.865 million. It is also worth
mentioning that the earning of fiscal year 2015-2016 is the
highest ever earning during last seven decades. The Commercial Management of loss making Trains has
been outsourced in order to generate maximum revenue
within existing resources. The expected revenue
generation will be Rs. 3350.917 million.
Besides, the Commercial Management of luggage vans
of two trains (Khyber Mail and Business Train) has been
contracted out to private parties in Rs.159.508 million
and 71.100 million per annum respectively (total Rs.
230.608 million) . Moreover, the Commercial Management of nine Brake
Vans i.e. Green Line, Tazgam, Allama Iqbal Express,
Karachi Express, Millat Express, Jaffar Express,
Karakoram Express, Pakistan Express, & Pak Business
Express, has been out sourced at a total of Rs. 263.073
million. A well planned and calculated reduction was introduced
in the fare tables of a few trains which were running at
loss. It was warmly welcomed by the public and a
substantial number of passengers were added as new
customers during the fiscal year 2015-2016. Keeping in view the ever increasing budgetary target and
market competition, certain non-core activities like train/
station branding have been started to generate extra revenue.
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Most importantly, a facility of passenger insurance has been
introduced at very nominal charges of Rs. 5/- per passenger.
For this purpose the services of Postal Life Insurance have
been hired and an agreement has been signed to this effect.
MOUs have been signed with different companies to
have ensured traffic. Dry port:
As during the current fiscal year (2015-16), all the operational and
commercial parameters of Pakistan Railways have considerably
improved. The containerized traffic has also taken a quantum
leap. Due to better marketing techniques and efficient handling of
con-tainers, the earning of Dry Ports has approximately increased
50% of the last year. The Pakistan Railways will continue to
facilitate the growing demand of containerized traffic in order to
play its vital role in the development of the country. The earnings
and tonnage of Import & Export traffic handled during the year
2015-2016 per-taining to different Dry ports are tabulated below:-
I M P O R T E X P O R T
Name of Dry Ports Earning Tonnage
No. of Earning Tonnage
No. of (Million) Containers (Million) Containers
Karachi Dry Port 1575.082 907286 31610
Freight paid
162573 23822
at karachi
Prem Nagar Dry Port 25.306 474570 121091 2.101 16357 6387
Lahore Dry Port 99.296 269387 9519 0.115 19170 8714
Islamabad Dry Port 98.529 80274 3497 0.0725 103 10
Peshawar Dry Port 131.951 112160 8808 0.673 116 14
Quetta Dry Port NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL
Total 1930.164 1843677 174525 2.847 198319 38947
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D. Personnel Department :
The formation of the Personnel Branch was the natural and
necessary corollary of the introduction of the Divisional System on
Pakistan Railways. The existence of Personnel Branch aims at an
efficient co- ordination of all sorts of matters dealing with the
Personnel of the Pakistan Railways, maintenance of uniform policy
for the Railways employees as a whole with regard to recruitment,
training, conditions of service, leave rules, etc with a view to dispel
any impression of partiality or unequal treatment between staff of
various branches or offices. For the administration of the huge
organization of Pakistan Railways satisfactory discharge of duties
by this branch is considered very essential. The Chief Personnel Officer is responsible to the Chief Executive
Officer/Senior General Manager for the correct conduct of the
Establishment work for suitable provision of amenities to staff and
performance of welfare activities. It is responsible for the efficient
co-ordination of personnel work on the entire Railway system for ar-
ranging inter -divisional transfers promotions adjustment of staff
according to requirements of work, etc of Officers and Sub- ordinate
staff controlled by the Headquarters Office in consultation with the
Principal Officer or their Deputy Principal Officers. He is assisted by
Deputy Personnel Officers, Senior Personnel Officers and Assistant
Officers for working in Headquarters Office. In Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Multan, Sukkur, Quetta, Karachi
and Workshops Divisions Moghalpura, the Divisional Personnel
Officer (BS- 18) are assisted by Assistant Personnel Officers (BS-
17), (where provided), to deal with all personnel work. In Carriage
Factory, Islamabad and PLF/Risalpur, this work is carried out by
Assistant Personnel Officers. MD/PLF Risalpur and MD/CFI are
also responsible for the general efficiency of the Personnel work
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to the CPO, who guides them in policy matters. In the matters
of recruitment of the categories controlled by Headquarters
Office, Lahore maintenance of seniority lists, transfers,
promotions, leave etc they work in consultation with
concerned Principal Officers. The Divisional Personnel Officer
is himself Executive Incharge of the Divisional Offices. There are Confidential Sections in all Divisions & in the
Headquarters Office Lahore, which deals with the matters of PER/
ACR, DPCs and enquiries in complaints. The Confidential
Sections in Divisions are supervised by DPOs, whereas in the
Headquarters Office it is headed by Dy. Chief Personnel Officer-II. Chief Personnel Officer assists the Executive Officers in
ensuring a fair deal to staff and thus avoiding subsequent
embarrassment to the administration resulting from incorrect
application of the rules disregard to any employee. Benevolent Fund Scheme:
The Benevolent Fund Scheme was introduced with effect from 01-
07- 1969 for the benefit of the invalided Railway Servants as well
as the bereaved families of the deceased Railway employees who
die during service or before attaining the age of 70 years, (in the
case of retired ex -employees) . They were being paid grant out of
Benevolent Fund according to the various pay slabs for life time
or the date of remarriage of the widow as per Schedule-III at par
with the Federal Government Benevolent Fund rates. Railway Board in its 4th meeting held on 24-05-2016, approved
implementation of Revised Benevolent Fund Grant and Other
benefits as well as rate of recovery of Benevolent Fund Contribution
at par with the Federal Government Benevolent Fund as below:- 69
Schedule-VI & VII at par with Federal Government
i) The cases in which the employees were in service on or
after 31-08 - 2012 and died/invalided during service or
after retirement will be admissible Benevolent Fund
grant according to Schedule-VI &VII, the revised
/increased rates viz (Rs.4,000 minimum to Rs. 10,100
maximum) w.e.f 01-09-2012, according to the pay slabs.
Payments have been started w.e.f 01-07-2016.
II) The cases which were current on 31-08-2012 will be
admissible the increase of 40% on the existing grants being
drawn. Payments have been started w.e.f 01-07-2016. In addition, Burial Expenses which are being paid at uniform rate of
Rs. 10,000 by the Federal Government, are being paid@ Rs.20,000/ -
with effect from December-2014. These are being paid to the families
of Railways employees who die during service. These Benevolent Fund Grant and rates of recoveries have been
revised & brought at par with the Federal Government Benevolent
Fund rates w.e.f 01-09-2012 according to Schedule-VI & VII. Marriage Grant
Marriage Grant of Rs. 50,000/- on marriage of one son/daughter
allowed w.e.f. 21-04-2011 to the employees/Ex: employees. Farewell Grant
Farewell Grant on retirement (one month pay) w.e.f 01-01-2006
Burial Charges. Burial Charges being paid @ Rs.20,000/- since December, 2014.
Sum Assured (Schedule- VIII)
From Rs. 350,000/- to Rs. 1,000,000 w.e.f July, 2016.
Lump Sum Grant (Schedule-IX).
Lump Sum Grant on invalided retirement from Rs. 150,000/- to
Rs.390,000/- w.e.f December, 2013.
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Group Terms Insurance Scheme:
The Group Terms Insurance Scheme (Welfare Fund) was introduced
in 1969 to provide insurance coverage to the families of Pakistan
Railway Servants died while in service. No recovery towards
insurance premium is made from the Railway's employees working
in BSP-1 to 16 and the financial burden to the tune of Rs. 16.805
million on this account is born by the Railway Administration during
the year 2015-16 as well as payment of Rs. 0.224 million was
arranged by this office out of contribution of the officers holding
posts BS-17 & above. Insurance coverage to the heirs of the
deceased Pakistan Railways Regular Employees was as under:-
Pay Range Sum Assured.
Pay Rs. 1501 and above Rs. 45,000/-
These have been revised at par with the Federal Employee
Benevolent Fund & Group Insurance as detailed above. During the year 2015-2016 a sum Rs. 353.272 million was paid
to the beneficiaries towards monthly grants out of Benevolent
Fund. These grants are met with from the monthly contribution
by the Railway Servants as well as profit on investments, rent
from plot at Sukkur and rent from Pakistan Railway Servants
Benevolent Fund Building, 1- Allama Iqbal Road, Lahore.
Pakistan Railways Employees Cooperative credit
Society Ltd: During the financial year July,2015 to June,2016 (12 months) the
Pakistan Railways Employee's Co -operative Credit Society Ltd
Lahore entertained 8377 applications for loan & advanced a sum
of Rs. 331.66 million to the Railway Employees, while in the
corresponding period payment of loan to Railway Employees was
made amounting to Rs. 330.58 million, thus attaining an increase
of Rs.1.08(M) in the Fiscal Year 2015-2016.
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Statement showing the amount of Loan Advanced during
the Year 01-07-2015 to 30-06-2016.
S.
Month & Year
No. of Loan Amount Advanced
No. Payment in Rs.
1. 7/2015 632 21999701/-
2. 8/2015 771 26688077/-
3. 9/2015 811 28403590/-
4. 10/2015 686 23975672/-
5. 11/2015 610 21390194/-
6. 12/2015 614 21220590/-
7. 1/2016 715 31291733/-
8. 2/2016 755 33286566/-
9. 3/2016 646 28706491/-
10. 4/2016 724 32110778/-
11. 5/2016 682 30143259/-
12. 6/2016 731 32443622/-
Total 8377 331,660,278/-
E. Pakistan Railways Police:
I t is s u b m i t t e d t h a t Pa k i s t a n R a i l wa ys P ol i c e is
a n independent entity, functioning under the administrative
control of the Inspector General as Head of Department with
its Headquarters at Lahore as well as the Senior General
Manager, Pakistan Railways Lahore as Chief Executive Officer.
The IGP is being assisted further by two D.I.Gs, one SRP
working as A.I.G/Administration, one DSP (Legal), one Bomb
Disposal Officer and other Ministerial & Executive Staff at
CPO, Lahore . The description of the staff/officers and nature
of the job being performed by them is indicated below:-
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Administrative control:
For Administrative Control, the area of jurisdiction of Pakistan
Railways Police is further divided into the following eight Divisions.
S.# Name of Division
1. Peshawar Division. 2. Rawalpindi Division.
3. Lahore Division. 4. Multan Division.
5. Sukkur Division. 6. Karachi Division.
7. Quetta Division. 8. Workshop Division Mughalpura Headed By:
Each Division is headed by one Superintendent of Police who
further assisted by two Deputy Superintendents and at least two
Inspectors. However, due to having light work only one Deputy
Superintendent has been provided at Quetta and Peshawar
Divisions. One Inspector (Legal) is also provided to each Division
except Lahore Division where two inspectors(Legal) are working.
There exists one Police Training School, which is functioning at
Walton Lahore under the supervision of one DSRP with direct
command of DIG/Headquarters. The Bomb Disposal Staff is also
performing their legitimate duty in all over the divisions of
Pakistan Railways Police including one Bomb Disposal Officer
who is posted in Central Police Office, Lahore.
Duty:
The preliminary duties of Pakistan Railways Police is safety of
passengers and goods, transported by Pakistan Railways,
protection of Railway property, the prevention, inquiry &
investigation of offences committed in relation to Pakistan
Railways and for matters connected therewith. In order to curb
the menace of crime, the PRP Staff performed their legitimate
duties with the high sense of responsibility & devotion.
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The performance of P.R Police during the Financial year 2015-
16 under various heads is as under.
Cases
Cases
Cases
Convicted
Stolen Recovered %
Acquitted Property Property of Reported Admitted Challaned (In Rs.) (In Rs.) Recovery
1458 1443 1341 637 19 9,225,207 4343392 47%
Recovery of Stolen Railway Material. Stolen Property Recovered Property Percentage of
in( Rs.) in( Rs.) Recovery
2244980 2054380 92%
Recovery of illicit arms Ammunition.
Kalash Rifles Gun Mouser/Pistol/ Repeaters Bat Barrels Magazine Rounds/ Knife/ Cartridges nikov Revolver Group Bullets Dagger
01 21 01 320 303 09 03 221 10255 1 25
Recovery of Narcotics.
Morphine
Heroin Opium Charas Bhang Liquor (Bottles) in (Kg) in(Kg) in (Kg) in (Kg) (Tablets)
2.079 10.427 23.158 12.000 14200 38
Status of Ticketless Passengers.
No. of Passengers Amount Realized as Fine/Fare Detected. in (Rs.)
90510 38,743,372
Action Against Unauthorized Hawkers/Vendors.
No. of Unauthorized Amount of Fine/Fare Hawkers/Vendors Detected in (Rs.)
50 13,190
Help Extended to the Passengers/General Public.
No. of Lost Children No. of Ran Away Any Handed over to (Girls/Boys & Women)
Retrieval of Lost
Parents/Legal Heirs Handed over to their Other
Legal Heirs. Luggage/Valuable Help
Boys Girls Boys Girls/Women Lost Luggage valued
Rs. 1,60,44,504/- was 8838
121
38
255
200
handed over to
2259 passengers.
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F. Directorate of Legal Affairs:
Historically Law Branch worked as a part of Commercial Branch
under CCM until 1982. In order to cater for ever increasing litiga-
tion at various legal forums, Law Branch was reorganized. Background.
1. The Law Branch was granted the status of Directorate of
Legal Affairs in 1999, headed by Director Legal Affairs.
2. However when Mr. Khawaja Saad Rafique, Honourable
Minister for Railways took charge of Railway Minister, the
Directorate of Legal Affairs was headed by non
Professional Director Legal Affairs since long. The
department badly suffered due to unnecessary litigations
and during that period most of the agreements/ contracts
were vetted not in the best of Railways.
There were number of cases pending since long regarding
procurement of important consignment like Railway engine
etc and land matters and related stay orders were also
pending due to that the department was effected badly.
To overcome the above situation, the Honourable Minister
took bold step and was pleased to appoint Director
General Legal Affairs Mr. Tahir Pervaiz, (retired judge/
highly professional lawyer) and Director Legal Affairs Mr.
Muhammad Fahim Alam a highly professional and law
knowing personality and since their appointments June
2014, they proved to be the best choice to clear back log
before various courts under supervision of DGLA & DLA.
Revamping Of Directorate. Furthermore to revolutionize the legal wing the Honourable
Minister has chalked out a new setup of legal wing that has
been approved by the department now all the Legal Inspectors
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(BS-14) have been upgraded/redesignated as Law Officer
(BS-16) and Senior Legal Inspectors (BS-16) have been
upgraded/redesignated as Assistant Director Legal (BS-17).
Further upgradation of Deputy Director Legal is under
process. New setup of Directorate of Legal Affairs has
brought great change and betterment in the working of this
Directorate. Appointment of Legal Advisor & Legal
Consultants is at final stage and after appointment of the said
legal experts, the working of this Directorate will be boosted.
Newly Created Posts:
Name of Posts Number of Posts Scale of Posts
Joint Director Legal Affairs 01 BS-19
Dy. Director Legal Affairs 01 BS-18
Legal Advisor (with one 01 MP-III
advance increment)
Legal Consultant 03 MP-III
Assistant Director Legal 04 BS-17
Law Officers 11 BS-16
Total Posts 21
Engagement of Lawyers on Retainer-Ship Basis. 3. Presently court cases are being contested through Railway
Counsels (RCLs) on case to case basis however this system is
being replaced with in house Railway Counsels on monthly
retainer -ship basis, at least one counsel for High courts and
Supreme Court and different number of Advocates for various
divisions according to work load. The said proposed system is
under process with MOR it will be implemented after the former
approval of the competent authority. Construction of New Building.
4. A new Building for Directorate of Legal Affairs containing
conference room and Law Library has been constructed with
the special efforts of the Honourable Minister for Railways
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Library.
5. A good library has been established. More funds are
being allocated to improve status of library and
purchase of new law books. Pendency And Disposal.
6. During 2015-16 large number of Court cases have been
decided in favour of Railways due to efficient coordination
between concerned branches and legal experts.
Total number of cases pending/decided upto 31-7-2015 in the entire system.
Pendency Pendency Decided cases
2014-2015 2015-2016 during 2015-2016
2517 2618
In favour Against Total
of P.R. P.R. 866 128 994
7. Efforts are being made to minimize the litigation cases
by supervising the proceeding at various levels.
8. Position of Court cases is being monitored at Divisional
Level on Weekly / Monthly basis to achieve the results
of cases in favour of Railways.
G. Directorate Of Public Relations:
Directorate of Public Relations of Pakistan Railways is responsible
for publicity, promotion of Railway services and interaction with the
print and electronic media. This Directorate comprised of scattered
offices within the Headquarters premises, which posed accessibility
problems to the journalists, visitors and the staff itself. The
incumbent Minister took keen interest in revamping the Directorate
by putting it under one roof to ensure better media monitoring
system to meet the modern media challenges and to have an
effective liaison with the print and electronic media.
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Location: The Directorate of Public Relations is situated on the first floor of store
Branch Building of the Pakistan Railways Headquarters Lahore.
Organization:
The matters relating to print and electronic media are being
dealt with more efficiency under the supervision of Director
General, who supervises Director Information Officer and
APPRO. Workload is jointly shared by all round the clock to
have effective coordination with media and public offices. Functions and Services: The directorate is engaged in following functions and services:
1. Advertisements:
Promotion of different rail services and products on behalf of
the organization, this office manages to publish the required
advertisements in print media and at times have been aired
through electronic media as well. 2. Publicity & Monitoring:
All Press Releases, Clarification articles, columns letters to the
editors and rebuttals are issued and "daily press summary" for
Federal Minister, Chief Executive Officer /Senior General
Manager is prepared by this office.
a Electronic Media:
TV News Channels and programmes are watched to keep up
with broadcast development regarding Railways and to
respond accordingly through modern electronic techniques.
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b Print Media: News of important event is prepared and released to Media
Offices through email and fax formats. Information with the
media offices, is also shared telephonically for clarification
of the news to be released. In this connection, Media Houses
are also visited physically by staff of this office as and when
required. As per nature of the expanded assignments, this
office works till late hours in two shifts.
c Social Media:
Social media monitoring is proposed to be another part
of daily monitoring Directorate of I. T. and Public
Relations are jointly working on social media needs and
monitoring its activity. 3. Issuance of Journalist Concession Cards: After fulfilling requisite criteria, this office issues Journalist Concession
Card to the Journalists/Media-men of "approved list" of Print and
Electronic Media, whereby the card holders can avail up to 80%
concession in Rail fares on railway operated train. Pakistan Railways
has sold 9495 tickets to the journalists having Journalist Concession
Cards worth Rs. 17.414 million during the period July- 2015 to June,
2016, Details of the concession tickets availed are as under:-
Year
No. of Revenue earned Concession granted
Tickets availed (Rs. in million) (Rs. in million )
2015 (June-Dec)
by Journalists
3.114
6,777 9.280
2016 Jan-June) 2,718 1.259 3.761
Total July15- 9,495 4.373 13.041
June-16)
* (These cards are issued on annual basis.(Jan-Dec) (Record
provided by IT Directorate for computerized tickets only.)
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4. Videography in Railways Premises: This Directorate facilitates and grants permission of shooting of
scenes/ events in Railways premises, as desired by interested
parties for official, commercial or charity purposes. This office
grants cost-free shooting permission to educational institutions,
charity organizations, Government Media Houses and ISPR, while
shooting is charged on commercial basis, depending upon
nature of the videography. This facility has been devolved to the
Divisional Offices to make it convenient for the applicants/users,
while the rates have been minimized too. 5. Press Releases:
This office also issues press releases, as and when required
by the Railway Administration. These press releases, articles,
rebuttals, letters to editor or columns are also uploaded on
official websites of Pakistan Railways www.pakrail.gov.pk and
www.railways.gov.pk 6. Press Conferences and Media Interactions: Several press conferences and media events were arranged by this
office in the Ministry, Headquarter Office, Divisional Offices and
Press Clubs by the Federal Minister, Chairperson and CEO with
columnists, editors, senior journalists, beat reporters and personnel
of press clubs and general media as and when required by the
department on important issues, performances and events. 7. Publicity Campaigns:
This office also arranges for publicity / promotion campaigns
of remarkable developments, such as introduction /
restoration of trains including campaigns of Special Trains at
the eve of Eids, Tableghi Ijtemas, National events, Azadi Train
celebrations, Greenline, upgradition of existing trains, E-
Ticketing etc.
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8. Publicity Material: Leaflets, broachers and "performance reports" are also published
through this office as and when required for public awareness.
9. Azadi Train Coverage:
Ministry of Railways as a joint venture with Ministry of
Information, Broadcasting, National Heritage and ISPR has
successfully launched Azadi Train which celebrated a month
long journey througout Pakistan. Public gave a tremendous
response and it got full appreciation on each railway station.
This office alongwith media Ministry covered its journey which
was a unique experience of this directorate.
H. Pakistan Railway Academy
1. Introduction: In 1925, a small Railway Training School of the legendary North
Western Railway was originally established in Lyallpur (now
Faisalabad). It was shifted to the present purpose -built Walton
campus named as Walton Training School. This institution was
named after Col. C.E. Walton, the Agent (as the General Manager
was then known) of the North Western Railways. In no time, the
Walton Training School became the hub of the suburb of Lahore
and the area became famous as "WALTON". The Walton Training School took on the character and repute of
its parent organization, the North Western Railways; symbolizing
the best traditions of service, innovation, development and
organizational excellence. The performance standards of this
institution received international acclaim when, in 1954, its
premises were selected by the ECAFE (Economic Commission
for Asia and Far East)- a United Nations agency, to establish their
Regional Railway Training Centre for training of Railway Officers
and senior supervisors of Asia and the Far East in Signaling and
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Advanced Railway Operations. Control of the Center was transferred to the
Government of Pakistan in January 1958. In July 1982, this academy was
renamed as Pakistan Inter- Regional Railway Training College (PIRRTC),
while in May 1983, it was again renamed as Directorate of Research and
Training Eventually in July 2000, it got the present name as "Pakistan
Railway Academy". Keeping in view the growing training needs of the
mother organization, the academy con-ducts about 26 Pre-service
induction training courses, 35 promotion and 41 refresher courses yearly
for Railway staff of all grades, disciplines and departments. Officers
inducted into various cadres of the Pakistan Rail-ways selected through
the Federal Public Service Commission as Probationers also receive their
Railways training here. Short Management-training courses are also
conducted from time to time whenever required. 2. Mission: To impart knowledge and develop skills of Railway Officers and Officials to
affect attitudinal changes so as to achieve excellence in work.
3. Vision:
To excel in training.
4. Organization: The Academy is headed by a Director General who is assisted by
Joint Directors heading each of the engineering, disciplines viz,
Civil, Mechanical, Signaling & Telecommunications, Electrical/
Electronics Engineering and the Traffic (Operations and
Commercial) Departments. Each Joint Director is assisted by an
Assistant Director and an adequate number of instructors, drawn
mostly from the experienced serving Railway staff. 5. Objectives:
* To impart quality training for improving organizational
efficiency and cost -consciousness.
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* To deploy state-of-the art teaching aids for imparting
the training.
* To enable the trainees to specify measurable
characteristics of services with sound scientific and
mathematical approach and assignments.
* To inculcate high standards of professionalism,
physical effectiveness and mental alertness. 6. Quality Management Certification: In pursuance of objectives of Railway Academy, a systematic approach
has been adopted to make the general atmosphere conducive for
educational activities. After successful implementation of internal
controls, certification in quality management was sought, which had
since been granted. Pakistan Railways Academy, Walton is now an ISO
9001:2008 certified institution meeting international standards of quality
objectives. Approved scope to which the certification has been granted
includes:-
* Railway Operation, Maintenance, Management &
Promotion Courses for Railway Officers & Supervisors.
* Railway Management & Operation Courses for other
International Railways participants.
* Other Management & Industrial Trainings for Non-
Railway Local Customers.
7. Facilities:
Training center at Walton has 35 well-equipped class rooms,
including dedicated rooms for special subjects such as
telecommunication. All discipline Model rooms equipped with
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life size and scale working models, for hands on training
networked computers labs. A well-stocked and continually
expanding library, containing books on technical,
professional, and management realms and linguistic, social
sciences, literature alongwith a spacious reading room. The
Library also caters for a wide selection of newspapers,
periodicals & technical/professional journals.
8. Lodging:
* There are seven hostels with accommodation for more
than 510 trainees including an exclusive hostel for the
International Students with air- conditioned and well-
equipped rooms.
* Free mess facilities are provided to all trainees for all discipline.
9. Health Care:
A resident medical officer with a dispensary for emergency
medical cover has been provided in the campus.
10. Recreation:
This Academy provides for indoor, outdoor sports and games
such as football, hockey, cricket, and badminton.
11. Courses Conducted:
1526 trainees participated in 102 courses (Recruitment,
Promotion and Refresher) during the year under review (July-
2015 to June -2016) compared with 1235 participant in 74
courses in the previous year (July-2014 to June-2015). Since
1954, total of 1855 Participants from more than 50 countries
have benefited from PIRRTC course upto 2016.
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12. Training Techniques: Training methods, techniques and equipments continue to be up-
graded to the latest standards. Trainees are taken on extensive
study tours over the P.R. network to acquire practical knowledge,
under the supervision of divisions concerned and oversight of
respective Joint Directors of Pakistan Railway Academy. 13. Plans to Improve the Academy:
(i) Up-gradation of the Academy with setting up a sepa-
rate exclusive wing for Pakistan Railways Research
& Development Centre (PRRDC).
(ii) Improvement and Rehabilitation of Infrastructure of
the Academy.
I. Project and Planning Department:
The Project & Planning Department is associated with catering to
the requirements of Public Sector Development Programme and
augment the existing facilities for the welfare of passengers/
customers. Rs. 41000.000 million were allocated by the
Government of Pakistan for the year 2015-16 against (PSDP)
projects. There are 53 Public Sector Development Programme
(PSDP) Projects in hand for further completion with a component
of foreign exchange amounting to Rs. 19155.000 million. The
custom duty and sale tax due on these projects was calculated at
Rs.2821.901 million whereas the cash and store components
amount to Rs. 19023.099 million Rs. 26284.426 is released against
allocation of Rs. 41000.000 million as revised budget 2015-16. In addition to this an amount of Rs. 150.000 million was allocated for
the improvement fund. Out of this Rs. 116.579 million was utilized up
to June, 2016 by the various divisions for provision, replacement
conversion and special repairs to the Railways infrastructure.
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S.
No.
PS
DP
S.N
o.
PSDP Budget Order
Name of the Project
1 2 3
1. 709 Acquisition of Land for Railway Container Yard. Station and Railway Line from Sea Port
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________uptoCoastalHighwayatGwadar
2. 710 Doubling of Track from Khanewal to Raiwind (Revised).
3. 711 Doubling of Track from Shahdara to Lalamusa.
4. 712 Feasibility Studies (Lumpsum) (Revised).
5. 713 Improvement of Goods Shed at Lahore.
6. 714 Mechanization of Track Maintenance (pilot project)
7. 715 Procurement of Manufacture of 75 No. New D.E. Locomotives
8. 716 Procurement of 150 D.E. Locomotives.
9. 717 Procurement of 500 high capacity bogie wagons and 40 power vans
10. 718 Procurement/Manufacture of 50 D.E. Locos.
11. 719 Project Management unit (PMU) in Ministry of Railways (Revised).
12. 720 Reconstruction of Assets Damaged during the Floods 2010.
13. 721 Rehabilitation and improvement of Track (Revised) Karachi to Khanpur.
14. 722 Rehabilitation of 27 Nos. (HGMU-30 Class) Diesel Electric Locomotives (Revised).
15. 723 Rehabilitation 300 Nos Traction Motors.
16. 724 Rehabilitation of Railway Assets damaged at Sindh during Riots of 27-28 December, 2007
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________followedbyAssisinationofMohtarmaBenazirBhutto(Revised)
17. 725 Rehabilitation of Rolling Stock and Track.
18. 726 Rehabilitation, Upgradation and Conversion of 400 Coaches.
19. 727 Replacement of Metal Sleepers and Track Renewal on Lodhran-Shahdara Section.
20. 728 Replacement of Old and Obsolete Signal Gear from Londhran Khanewal-Shahdara Bagh
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________MainlineSectionofPakiatanRailways(IslamicDevelopmentBank).
21. 729 Revival of Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) as Modern Commuter System (Revised).
22. 730 Special Repair of 100 D.E Locomotives.
23. 731 Special Repair of 150 D.E Locomotives to Improve Availability & Reliability.
24. 732 Special Repair of 800 Coaches and 2000 Wagons 25. 733 Strengthening/Rehabilitation of 159 Weak Bridges on Pakistan Railways.
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for the year 2015-2016.
Estimated Cost
Total Foreign
CFE
CD/ST & Ports Cash & Foreign
Total Aid Shipping Charges Store Aid
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1,332.000 .. .. 882.000 .. .. 882.000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
12,617.400 .. .. 193.720 .. .. 193.720 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
13,593.000 .. .. 200.000 .. .. 200.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
150.000 .. .. 50.000 .. .. 50.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
59.000 .. .. 39.000 .. .. 39.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4,055.000 1,799.808 651.800 343.432 .. .. 2,795.040 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
46,810.000 850.000 .. 150.000 .. .. 1,000.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
55,488.000 .. .. 1.000 .. .. 1.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
11,998.000 1,366.000 74.000 60.000 .. .. 1,500.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
19,406.610 155.000 40.000 1,005.000 .. .. 1,200.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
874.000 .. .. 500.000 .. .. 500.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6,365.239 545.000 .. 1,455.000 .. .. 2,000.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
11,544.000 .. .. 1,758.634 .. .. 1,758.634 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6,284.000 47.687 195.101 162.212 .. .. 405.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
1,650.000 1,112.729 356.000 178.271 .. .. 1.647.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
7,855.953 .. 10.000 140.000 .. .. 150.000
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4,000.000 405.000 100.000 495.000 .. .. 1,000.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5,200.000 290.000 110.000 513.000 .. .. 913.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2,216.000 .. .. 262.414 .. .. 262.414 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
18,077.000 1,667.776 275.000 557.224 .. .. 2,500.000
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
9,617.000 .. .. 1.000 .. .. 1.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4,883.000 2,014.000 645.000 191.000 .. .. 2,850.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5,005.031 630.000 210.000 160.000 .. .. 1,000.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
1.810.000 200.000 50.000 750.000 .. .. 1,000.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
412.000 .. .. 100.255 .. .. 100.255
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S.
No.
PS
DP
S.N
o.
PSDP Budget Order
Name of the Project
1 2 3
26. 734 Strengthening of Planning Directorate, Ministry of Railways. Islamabad ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
27. 735 Track Rehabilitation on Khanpur,-Lodhran Section .. .. .. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
28. 736 Clearance of Pending Liabilities of (Un-Funded/Under Funded) Projects ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
29. 737 Construction of Staff Quarters ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
30. 738 Conversion of 260 Passenger Coaches from 110 Volts to 220 Volts Electrical System. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
31. 739 Feasibility Study for Dedicated Freight Corridor for Transportation of Coal from Karachi to Lahore. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
32. 740 Feasibility Study for Improvement/Upgradation of Existing Track Wazirabad=Sialkot- Narowal-Shahdara Section ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
33. 741 Feasibility Study for Rehabilitation and Operation of Sibi-Harnai-Khost Section ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
34. 742 Improvement of Signaling System on Lodhran-Khanpur-Kotri Section and Provision of Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) on Shahdra-Lodhran Section. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
35. 743 Leveraging Railways Optic Fiber and Telecom Capacity for Rural Connectivity ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
36. 744 Procurement/Manufacture of 1130 High Capacity Bogie Freight Wagons ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
37. 745 Procurement of Equipment for improved Security and Anti-terrorism Measures ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
38. 746 Procurement of Hooper Wagons for Coal Transportation (Phase-I) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
39. 747 Provision of Solar System at Pakistan Railways Headquarter Office, Lahore. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
40. 748 Re-Commisioning/Up-gradation of 20 D.E. Locomotives (DPU 20-30) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
41. 749 Renovation & Up-gradation o Major Railway station ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
42. 750 Replacement of two Generating Sets of 100 KW (1MW) at Railway Power House MGPR ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
43. 751 Re-railing Equipment (Rescue Equipments) for Emergency Relief Trains ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
44. 752 Upgradation of Concrete Sleeper Factories at Khanewal. Sukkur and Kohat ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
45. 753 Upgradation of Railway Station to Attract Sikh Tourism at Hassanabdal Nankana Sahib and Narowal ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
46. 754 Upgradation of Terminal Facilities and Dry Ports ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
47. 755 (i) PC-I for Feasibility Study to Connect Gwadar with Karachi
(ii) Feasibility Study from Gwadar to Buldhair,District Havelian (CPEC) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
48. 756 Acquisition of Land for New Dry Port at Buldhair. District Havelian (CPEC)
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for the year 2015-2016.
Estimated Cost
Total Foreign
CFE
CD/ST & Ports Cash & Foreign
Total Aid Shipping Charges Store Loan
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
58.000 .. .. 10.000 .. .. 10.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
8,978.000 1,100.000 .. 2,546.361 .. .. 3,646.361 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
300.000 192.000 61.000 47.000 .. .. 300.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
300.000 .. .. 300.000 .. .. 300.000
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
400.000 57.000 .. 343.000 .. .. 400.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
390.785 .. .. 10.000 .. .. 10.000 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
42.000 .. .. 42.000 .. .. 42.000
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
20.000 .. .. 20.000 .. .. 20.000 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______
38,262.000 2,600.000 .. 1,000.000 .. .. 3,600.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
100.000 .. .. 10.000 .. .. 10.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
9,620.000 900.000 .. 100.000 .. .. 1,000.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
403.076 .. .. 403.076 .. .. 403.076 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
8,863.000 2,500.000 .. 500.000 .. .. 3,000.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
36.000 .. .. 36.000 .. .. 36.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2,500.000 300.000 .. 100.000 .. .. 4000.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
600.000 .. .. 500.000 .. .. 500.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
108.000 .. .. 108.000 .. .. 108.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
250.000 123.000 44.000 83.000 .. .. 250.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2,000.000 300.000 .. 200.000 .. .. 500.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
173.000 .. .. .. 155.500 .. 155.500 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
700.000 .. .. .. 400.000 .. 400.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
138.000 .. .. .. 10.000 .. 10.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
300.000 .. .. .. 300.000 .. 300.000 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Progress Report of on Going P.S.D.P. Projects of
S.
Name of Project
Estimated Expenditure Budget Budget Expenditure Cumulative
No. Cost of the upto the Release Allotment during the Expenditure
Project end of upto for year 2015-16 upto May,
June, March, 2015-16. upto May, 2016
2015. 2016. 2016. (Column No.
1 2
4+7).
3 4 5 6 7 8
49 757 China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Support 252.000 0.000 0.000 50.000 0.000 50.000
Project at Ministry of Railways
50 758 Comprehensive Feasibility Study for Upgradation /Re- 390.000 0.000 0.000 270.000 0.000 270.000 habilitation of Mainline 1 (ML-I) and New Dry Port at
Havelian (Buldhair) District Haripur under China-Pak
Economic Corridor (CPEC)
1,700.000 0.000 0.0001,030.000 0.000 1,030.000 51 759 Doubling/Improvement of Existing Track from Port Qasim
to Bin Qasim Station (SPEC) 52 760 Feasibility Studies for Upgradation of Existing
Main Line-II (ML-II) (SPEC)
53 761 Feasibility Study (PC-II) for Construction of New Rail Line
for Havelian to Pak China Border (682 K.M) (SPEC)
Total
300.000 0.000 0.000 300.000
474.000 0.000 0.000 1.000
328,960.094 19,155.000 2,821.90119,023.099
0.000 300.000
0.000 1.000
0.000 41,000.000
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CHAPTER-II
Manufacturing Unit.
The Manufacturing Unit is headed by the General Manager
Manufacturing & Services and comprised of:-
1. Carriage Factory, Islamabad (CFI) 2. Concrete Sleeper Factories (CSF) 3. Locomotive Factory Risalpur (LFR)
Carriage Factory, Islamabad, (CFI):
Mission Statement:
Manufacturing of Railway Carriages for safe, economical and
effective train operation. Vision: We are committed to provide good quality products, services and
continuously improve our quality management system as per standards
of ISO 9001-2008 to satisfy the requirements of our customers. Current Activities:
The following project are currently being executed in Carriage
Factory, Islamabad
1. Special Repair of 110 Coaches. 2. Manufacture of 15 Nos Brake Van (ZNRV) for Hopper
Wagon Project. 3. Special Repair of 60 Nos BG-64 Bogies. 4. Nominated/Designated repair of 25 Coaches.
Facts & Figures:-
A total of 3996 coaches have been manufactured by CFI since
1971 till date, as per following break up:
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(i) New manufacturing =2130 Nos
(ii) Rehabilitation =1105 Nos.
(iii) Special Repair/POH = 342 Nos.
Future Plans and Projects:
(i) Procurement/Manufacture of 250 Passenger Coaches.
subject to approval by the competent forum. Achievements made during the Financial year 2015-2016:
a. Manufacture of 38 Nos Chinese Power Vans
b. Special Repair of 52 Coaches
c. Rehabilitation of 50 Coaches under 400 Coaches
project. d. Nominated Repair of 04 Coaches.
Concrete sleeper Factories:
1. Pakistan Railways owns five Concrete Sleeper Factories,
located at Sukkur, Khanewal, Kohat Cantt, Shahinabad
and Kotri. The factory at Sukkur was established in 1967,
first on the Sub -Continent. Other four factories came up
in 1979-80. 323 persons are working in CSF/Organization.
2. Factories at Sukkur and Khanewal are manufacturing
Prestressed Concrete (PSC) Mono Block Sleepers, while
CSF/Kohat Cantt is manufacturing (RCC) Twin Block
Sleepers. Due to financial Constrains, factories at Kotri
and Shahinabad were closed w.e.f. 01.10.1996. CSF Kotri
has been leased out to M/s. HIS Industries, Karachi w.e.f.
22.10.2006.
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3. Performance of the factories during 2015-2016.
Rated
Target for Production Cumulative
Factory
the year during the production
Capacity 2015-16 year since
2015-16 installation.
Sukkur 80,000 129,000 128,663 3,167,136 Khanewal 150,000 152,000 152,010 2,918,737 Kohat Cantt 100,000 36,000 35,712 2,396,345
Kotri(Leased) .. .. .. ..
Total
330,000 317,000 316,385 8,482,218
4. In order to meet with the requirements of sleepers for the
ongoing and upcoming rehabilitation and infrastructure
expansion projects, the manufacturing capacity of
concrete sleeper factory Khanewal/Sukkur is being
enhanced for which PC-I has been approved.
5. Flash Butt Welding Plant in CSF/Sukkur was installed in
1986 at Concrete Sleeper Factory Sukkur. The plant welds
the rail in three rail panels, which are laid in the track and
there after these three rail panels are welded and converted
into continuous rails. During 2015-16, the Flash Butt
Welding Plant has welded 147 panels which have been laid
in the field. Uptill now 13607 panels have been welded.
Pakistan Locomotive Factory, Risalpur:
1.
Locomotive Factory Profile
Cost of Factory
=Rs. 1496.00 Million F.E
Local =Rs. 788.00 Million
2.
Total =Rs. 2284.00 Million
Area
= 257 Acres a. Total Area
i Factory = 100 Acres
ii Colony = 157 Acres
b. Covered Area of Factory = 11 Acres 93
3. Production Capacity = 25 Loco/Year
4. The Factory Commissioned in
(on single shift basis)
= Jan,1993
5. First Locomotive Rolled out = 02-12-1993
6. No. of Locomotive Manufactured = 102
7. No. of Locomotive Rehabilitated = 26
8. Staff As Per PC-I = 1530
9. Staff On Roll = 607
10. Foreign Exchange saved by = 1422 Million
the Factory since commissioning
Construction Introduction and Background
Feasibility study completed by M/s JICA Japan (April
1982 to May 1983)
Project Funded by OECF (Overseas Economic Co-operation
Funds), Japan on Feb 21,1984 for an amount of Y9.76 Billion
Agreement with M/s JARTS(Japan Railway Technical
Service) on May 3, 1984 for consultancy service regarding
factory Layout, Designing of Machinery, Supervision for
installation of plant & Machinery.
Agreement with Local consultant M/s RISE Ltd, Lahore
on March 10, 1984 for structure design.
Agreement with M/s Hitachi Ltd, Japan on May 19, 1985
for TOT and manufacturing of D.E. Locomotives.
Construction of factory building, installation of plant &
machinery and other related works completed upto
December 1992 along with parts & material supply for
05 D.E. locomotives of 2000 hp (Hitachi Design). In order to meet the growing transportation demand of the country,
Pakistan Locomotive Factory has been planned on modern lines,
facilitating flow of work in a smooth fashion. The factory is
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capable of manufacturing 25 Diesel Electric Locomotives/Electric
Locomotives per annum on single shift basis and can easily double
its production by adopting a second shift. The technology for
manufacturing locomotives has been acquired from Hitachi Ltd,
Japan, General Electric/USA, ADtranz of Germany and Dalian
Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works, China and CSR Ziyang Co. Ltd
China. The factory has achieved the design capacity of 02
locomotives per month. Pakistan Locomotives Factory, Risalpur has
manufactured 102 locomotives so far in the range of 2000-3000 H.P
for main line passenger and freight trains. In addition, 26 overage
locomotives of 2000/2400 H.P have also been rehabilitated in this
factory. All these locomotives are successfully operating important
main line services of Pakistan Railways and performing equally well
as compared to imported locomotives.
Pakistan Locomotives Factory, Risalpur is also utilized for
development of spare parts for Pakistan Railways, Work orders
completed for Pakistan Railways are 1241 number amounting
Rs 760.380 million, work orders completed for private sector
are 34 amounting Rs 55.875 million and work orders completed
for major repair of DE locomotives are 193 number amounting
Rs 430.820 million up Dec, 2016.
ISO:
First Production Unit of Pakistan Railway Certified for:
i. ISO-9001:2008 : Quality Management System
ii. ISO-14001:2004 : Environmental Management System
Vision: To manufacture diesel electric and electric locomotives indigenously by
maximizing local manufacturing of major assemblies and vital spare parts to
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meet with the demand of transportation of Pakistan Railways, Saving of
foreign exchange and less dependency on foreign technology.
Facility:
Works Department Fabrication Shop
Machine Shop Production Department Rotating Machine Shop Design Department
Assembly Shop Electrical Department Testing and
Inspection Civil Engg. Department Maintenance
Shop Accounts Department Tool Shops
Personnel Department 132 KV grid Station
Security Department Welfare:
Staff and Officer Colony 338 Houses Canteen
(Factory)
Hospital (Colony) High School (Girls &
Boys) (Colony) Transport Facility for
Schools (Colony) Officers Club (Colony)
Community Centre (Colony) Water
Treatment Plant (Colony) Play Grounds
(Colony)
Project completed:
1993-94 * 05 D.E. Locomotives (2000 HP, Hitachi Design)
* 18 D.E. Locomotives (2000 HP, Hitachi Design) 1994-97
* Rehabilitation of 05 D.E. Locomotives(2000 HP, GE Design) 1997-98
* 30 D.E. Locomotives (3000 HP, GE & ADtranz Design) 1999-01
* Rehabilitation of 21 D.E. Locomotives (2000/2400 HP, GE Design) 2001-03
* 69 D.E. Locomotives (2000 HP /3000 HP, Chinese Design) 2003-08
* 05 D.E. Locomotives (3000 HP, Chinese Design) 2014-15
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Manufacturing Techniques (Mechanical:
Fabrication Works i.e. Shearing, Gas Cutting, Sawing,
Notching, Bending, Tacking, Welding, Grit Blasting,
Cambering, etc.
Welding Techniques: MIG Welding, MAG Welding, TIG
Welding, Plug Welding, Spot Welding, Brazing, etc.
Non Destructive Tests: Penetrate Test, Ultrasonic Test,
Magnetic Test, Magna flux, etc.
Handling of Heavy Structure: Welding Positioners for
Under Frame, Bogie Frame, Superstructure, Diesel
Engine & Complete Locomotive, etc.
Machining & Marking: Mostly parts required matching before
& after tacking/welding prior its marking through Numerical
Control Marking Machine having accuracy of 4 microns.
Piping Work: All type piping like Air, Water, Lube & Fuel
Oil etc. Possibility of Product Diversification at Pakistan
Locomotive Factory Risalpur: Pakistan Locomotive Factory, Risalpur has acquired state of the art
manufacturing facilities including plant & machinery and equipment being
manual, automatic, semi automatic NC and CNC. Basically the factory is
equipped with plant & machinery specified for manufacture of new
locomotives but there exist possibility of product diversification and the
following products can be made with little addition in the existing facilities.
A. Manufacturing of freight wagons, BOTs, Hopper Wagons,
bogies of coaches, Dovetail Sheets etc. B. Fabrication of pedestrian bridges, overhead crane girders,
Telecommunication towers, Vessels, Electric poles, Heavy
vehicles chassis, Trailers, Containers, Agriculture equipment,
Tractor trollers, follower & gates of Spillways etc.
C. Manufacturing of Mould for Concrete Sleeper factories.
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D. Manufacturing /re-qualification of D.E. Locos spares and
components for running maintenance.
E. Rewinding of traction motors and allied motors &
manufacturing of rewinding kits.
F. Rehabilitation and special repair of D.E. Locos.
Diversification Targets in Next Two Years at Pakistan
Locomotive Factory Risalpur: 1. Manufacturing of 400 Hopper Wagons out of 800 Hopper Wagons:- Contract agreement for manufacturing of 800 Nos Hopper Wagons
has been signed on 14th January, 2016 with M/s Jinnan, Railway
Equipment Manufacturer, China. Material receipt has been started in
Nov. 2016 from seller at PLF, Risalpur. Manufacturing work is in
progress and the project is expected to be completed by Dec, 2017. 2. Conversion of Power Vans Shells into Brake Vans:- Conversion of 40 Nos. Power Van Shells into Brake Vans is in progress,
After successful conversion these brake vans will be used with newly
manufactured 500 New Design High Capacity Bogie Wagons. The
conversion cost incurred to the tune of Rs. 4.00 million.
3. Rewinding of 66 Nos, Hitachi 395 HP Traction Motors,
Costing Rs. 300.00 million:- Stripping of Armatures and rehabilitation of Magnet frames are in
progress. Rewinding will be started on receipt of kits from successful
bidder after award of contract by CCP. The expected rewinding/
rehabilitation cost of one traction motor is Rs 0.350 million.
Pakistan Railways Plan for Manufacturing of D E Locos in Next
Coming Years:
1. In the vision 2025, the Pakistan Railways has planned to
induct 500 numbers D E Locomotives in the system.
2. Floating of International Tender for 200 D E Locomotives
is in preparation stage. Out of these 200 numbers, 150
numbers locomotives will be manufactured at PLF,
Risalpur with deletion target up to 50%.
3. The deletion program can be enhanced upto 60% to 70%
gradually through joint venture.
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Locomotive Rehabilitation Project MGPR (History):
The Diesel Electric Locomotives is the main source of power
for traction service. Replacement of such expensive unit is not
so easy. To overcome this problem and save Foreign
Exchange, Locomotive Re-engining Shop was established in
Moghalpura Workshops in 1976, as such the useful life of D E
Locomotives increased 12 to 15 Years for further service with
less amount of expenditure.
The 1st Project of Re-engining of 47 Nos. ARU/ARP/ARPW-
20 Class of Locomotives was under taken in Locomotive Re-
engining Shop and completed during 1976- 1982.
The 2nd Project of Re-engining of 47 Nos. ARPW-20 EB
& ALU -20 R Class of D.E. of D.E. Locomotives was
completed during 1982-1986.
The 3rd Project was the Assembly of 08 Nos. HAU-20
Locomotives completed simultaneously in year 1983.
After that, Re-engining Shop renamed into Rehabilitation
Shop. The project of Rehabilitation of 102 D.E Locomotives
GRU-20/ RGE- 20/24 was completed in 2004 with the technical
assistance of M/s General Electric, USA. These Locomotives
are still working successfully, especially RGE-20 in Ghat
Section (Sibi -Quetta Section) with Dynamic Brake System. The project of Special Repairs to 36 Nos. GMU -30 Diesel Electric
Locomotives was completed during 2007-2010. These locomotives
are being used for freight as well as express Trains, overcoming the
present crisis of Pakistan Railways Traction service.
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Organization of Project Director /Loco Rehabilitation consists
of 166 personnel including Officers, Supervisors and Labour.
The work of Nominated Repair of different Operating Sheds
were also taken in hand in the sense to facilitate the
Sheds/Shops during intervening period of 02 Projects.
Current Activities:
Presently, the "Project of 27 Nos. HGMU-30 Class Diesel Electric
Locomotives" is being executed in Locomotive Rehabilitation
Shop, Moghalpura with collaboration of M/s. Electro-Motive
Diesel Ltd, United Kingdom. The amount to the tune of Rs.
405.000 million has been allocated for the current Financial Year
2015-16, wheras the total cost of the Project is Rs. 6284.000
million. The main Frames, Car Bodies, Engine Blocks & Bogie
Trucks are being Rehabilitated/upgraded as per scope to work.
The preparation of foundation pad, installation of diesel engine,
electric cabinet, high tension/low tension wiring are being carried
out under the technical assistance of Service/Technical Experts
of designated firm. 15 rehabilitated D E Locomotives have been
rolled out for revenue service after rehabilitation. The step -wise
rehabilitation progression on residual twelve (12) HGMU-30 D E
Locomotive are being taken on-hand.
Future Plan:
The Project of "Rehabilitation of 27 Nos. (HGMU-30 Class)
Diesel Electric Locomotives" is expected to be completed upto
December 2016.
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CHAPTER-III
Welfare & Special Initiative Unit
The unit is headed by General Manager Welfare & Special
Initiative who is assisted by the following heads of the
Departments (Principal Officers).
1. Chief Medical & Health Officer.
2. Director General of Education.
3. Pakistan Railways Sports Board (PRSB).
Medical & Health Department:
Mission Statement.
To provide efficient, timely and cost effective health care to the
Railway Employees and their families in order to promote
health and well being among the working environment of
Pakistan Railways in the given resources. Pakistan Railways has its own Medical Department and has eight
hospitals located at Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Moghalpura,
Multan, Sukkur, Karachi Cantt and Quetta. Railway employees
and their families are getting free of cost treatment through these
institutions hospitals. These hospitals are controlled by the Chief
Medical & Health Officers with the support of 172 doctors and
specialists. Medical Department looks after the health of more
than one million people i.e. Railway Employees, Retired and their
families on the entire Railway System. Apart from hospitals
Pakistan Railways has 57dispensaries and 35 Child Welfare
Centers all over the system. The Medical Superintendents and
Divisional Medical Officers have been directed to improve the
Emergency Department of the Hospitals / Dispensaries to give
better treatment to the Emergancy and the indoor patients.
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The Railway hospitals are being opened for general public
offering medical consultation, diagnostic facilities and indoor
treatment utilizing the services of Railway doctors/ specialists
and para-medical staff. 1/3 rd of the revenue generated will be
deposited with government treasurers being Railway earning. Special emphasis is being given for promotion of continued medical
education of the doctors and para-medical staff and post-graduation
studies of doctors is now encouraged so that qualified specialist
doctors are available for treatment of patients in Railway Hospitals. Medical assistance was rendered to members of the public while
travelling. Efforts are being made for prevention and control of Dengue
and Polio in Railway premises in coordination with Public Health
Authorities and no case of Dengue and Polio was detected. Child
Immunization program was carried out at Railway Station and colonies.
Cleanliness week were observed in all Railway Stations and colonies
especially during monsoon season. Free medical camps were arranged
in Divisional Medical Set up for Railway employees and their families.
First aid Centers have been established at all major Railway Stations of
Pakistan Railways for the facilitation of passengers.
Directorate of Education:
Aims & Objectives : The aims and objectives of our institutions are to provide conducive teach-
ing and learning environment for education on modern scientific footing
and to provide opportunities for creative activities and self-exploration
under the guidance of competent professionals. P.R. Educational institu-
tions lay equal emphasis on physical fitness, cultural activities, Character
building, development of leadership qualities, inculcation of discipline and
sportsman spirit among the students.
The performance o Directorate of Education, Pakistan
Railways for the Year 2015-16 is as under:
1. Special Measures for Security arrangements has been
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a. Installation of CCTV Cameras b. Raising of Boundary Wall upto 10 feet c.
fixing of razor wire on the Boundary wall
d Placement of Barriers in front of main
gate e. Armed Security Guards 2. A new library namely "Sofia Zaboor Ahmad" for P.R. Saint
Andrew's Girls High School and College has been
established containing 2000 General Books which have been
inaugurated by General Manager/W&SI with Wifi facilities.
3. Sports Camps are in Progress for both boys and girls in
Lahore Schools and Colleges. Different coaches of various
games are deputed for the training of the students.
4. Scouting has been introduced in P.R. Schools and Colleges.
A regular period is allocated in regular timetable.
5. A special Quranic period for Qurani Taleem has been
introduced in all P.R. Schools and Colleges over the system
6. To enhance teaching skills of teachers, a special teachers
training workshop has been arranged during summer vacation.
7. Monthly Test System also introduced for Board classes. 8. Parents & Teacher meetings thrice in an Academic Year.
9. A plan has been made to renovate 03 P.R. Schools in every
aspects and then these schools may be given to any
prominent NGO (Non-profit Organization) having experience
of maintaining schools like TCF, CARE, Etc. on the pattern of
P.R. Boys and Girls High School Karachi Cantt. 10. This Directorate of education has shown excellent result in
Secondary School Certificate (Annual) Examination,2015-16
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Result of Secondary Schools Certificate (Annual) Examination, 2015-2016.
School Name Appeared Passed A+ A B C D E
Pass
Top Positions
Marks
% Obtained
P.R.St.Andrew's 158 129 32 25 28 35 09 - - 81.7 Azka Rashid 1065 Girls School LHR Arha Zia 1056
Farah Farooq 1044
P.R.Lady Griffin 100 96 15 26 26 22 07 - - 9 6 Sana Munir 1018 School LHR Fareeha Ali 1007
Arshman Tariq 1000
P.R.Boys School 83 72 13 07 18 22 10 02 8 7 Zohaib Nadeem 1006 Engine Shed LHR Hafiz M. Saad Ullah 1006
Ali Hassan 1002
P.R.Girls School 119 98 22 22 24 22 08 - - 8 2 Palwasha Munir 1049 MGPR LHR Hijab Fatima 1040
Syeda Fatima Bukhari 1034
P.R.Boys School 32 32 06 08 12 03 03 - - 100 Ehtasham ud Din 991 MGPR LHR Usama Ahmad 984
Bilal Shafiq 981
P.R.Boys School 23 16 - - 02 03 08 03 - - 7 0 Muhammad Saleem 818 SMA Muhammad Waseem 791
Faizan Dilshad 732
P.R.Boys School 20 19 - - 01 04 08 06 - - 9 5 Yasir Ali 603/850
Sukkur
P.R.Girls School 13 13 01 11 01 - - - - - - 100 Rizwana 684/850
Sukkur
P.R.Girls School 15 14 - - 02 10 02 - - - - 9 3 Laiba Mehmood 653/850
Rohri
P.R.School MYP 06 04 - - - - - - 02 02 - - - - .. --
P.R.School Kotri 05 04 - - - - 01 02 01 - - 8 0 Ramzan Noor 510/850
P.R.Girls School 42 37 1 07 18 12 - - - - 8 8 Bisma Naz 669/850
Karachi
P.R.Girls School 75 30 - - - - 06 13 10 01 4 0 575/850
Karachi
Total: 691 564 90 111 151 151 57 03 81.6 ..
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4. For the Rehabilitation of P.R. Boys and Girls High School Karachi
have been taken in joint venture with an organization (TCF). 5. For the Rehabilitation and betterment of P.R. Schools the Railway
board has approved the private public partnership of three
schools i.e.(i) P.R. Primary School Faisalabad (ii) P.R. Boys High
School Kotri (iii) P.R. High School Marshalling Yard Pipri.
Pakistan Railways Sports Board: The Pakistan Railways Sports Board is a sole Institution of the
country which encourages, promotes, controls and arrange
coaching, training and competitions in various disciplines of sports
in the entire Pakistan Railways. It is headed by the Chairman
Railways as Patron as well as General Manager/Operations, as
President Honorary Vice President, Secretary and Sports Officer P.R
Sports Board as Supervisory Officers as well as Sr. Inspector
Sports, Assistant Inspector Sports. UDC/Sports as Office Staff. Pakistan Railway Sports Board Organizes, its Pakistan Railways Inter
Divisional Tournaments regularly and systematically during whole the
year which helps in producing talented sports persons who participate
in National, International and other High Ranking Tournaments and
bring good name, laurels to the country as well as to the department. During last year (Sports Session 2015-16 "From July 2015 to
June-2016", our sports persons, participated in different
disciplines of sports and produced good results. Games In Which Pakistan Railway Teams Participated In National Level
1. Athletics 2. Badminton 3. Body Building 4. Boxing 5. Basketball 6. Cycling 7. Cricket 8. Football 9. Gymnastic.
10. Golf 11. Handball 12. Hockey
13. Judo 14. Karate 15. Kabaddi 16. Netball 17. Rowing 18. Taekwondo 19. Table Tennis 20. Tug of War 21. Volley ball 22. Weight Lifting 23. Wrestling 24. Wushu
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Women:1. Athletics 5. Judo
2. Badminton 6. Karate
3. Cycling 7. Table Tennis
4. Hockey 8. Taekwondo International Achievements:
Mr. Muhammad Javed Anwar CEO/Sr. General Manager/Pakistan Railways.
Nominated as Manager Pakistan Weight Lifting Team for 12th
South Asian Games by the Pakistan Weight Lifting Federation
held at Guwahati & Shilong (India) from 5-16 Feb, 2016. Prof: Dr. Farhan Ebadat Yar Khan, Vice President/PRSB:
Attended 12th South Asian Games as Manager Pakistan
Kabaddi Team nominated by the Pakistan Kabaddi Federation
held at Guwahati & Shilong (India) from 5-16 Feb, 2016. Mr. Rashad Mahmood Butt, Sports Officer/P.R. Sports Board:
(i) Appointed as Umpires Manager in Asian Challenge Cup Hockey
Tournament from 12-20 Dec, 2016 at Yangone (Myanmar).
(ii) Attended the FIH Hockey Academy Umpires Educator
Course from 8th to 10th April, 2016 at Ipoh (Malaysia).
(iii) Conducted the FIH Umpires Advance level Course
from 11th to 15th April, 2016 at Ipoh (Malaysia). Mr. Asghar Gill, Athletics Coach, Pakistan Railways:
i) Attended 21st Asian Athletics Championship as
Coach/ Manager of Pakistan Athletics Team
nominated by the Pakistan Athletics Federation held
at Wuahan (China) from 3-7 June, 2015.
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ii) Attended IAAF CECS Level - III, Throws jumps Course of
Athletics nominated by the Pakistan Athletics Federation
held at Daegu (Korea) from 24 Oct to 17 Nov,2015.
iii) Attended 12th South Asian Games as Coach of
Pakistan Athletics Team nominated by the Pakistan
Athletics Federation held at Guwahati & Shilong
(India) from 5-16 Feb, 2016.
iv) Attended 17th Asian Junior Athletics Championship
as Coach of Pakistan Athletics Team nominated by
the Pakistan Athletics Federation held at HOCHI
MINH City (Vietnam) from 2-6 June, 2016. Ahsan Rasheed Kabaddi Coach, Pakistan Railways:
i) Attended PRO Kabaddi League Season-2 (Asian
Style) as Technical Official nominated by the
Pakistan Kabaddi Federation held at Mumbai (India)
from 14th July to 31st Aug, 2015.
ii) Attended 3rd Asian Style Kabaddi Championship, 2016
at Wah Cantt from 1st to 5th May, 2016 as Technical
Official nominated by Pakistan Kabaddi Federation. Mr. Mujahid Hussain Body Builder of Pakistan Railways:
i) Represented Pakistan in 49th Asian Body Building
Championship from 24th Sep to 5 th Oct-2015 at
Tashkand (Uzbikistan).
ii) Represented Pakistan in 7 th WBBF World Body
Building Championship from 24-30 November, 2015
at Bangkok (Thailand). Mr. Muhammad Usman Ghani Hockey Player of Pakistan Railways:
Represented Pakistan Junior Hockey team in 4 Nation Hockey
Tournament held at Germany from 20-25 July, 2016.
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National Achievements:
Results of National Championships (From July, 15 to June,16).
S.
Event
Medals Team
No. Gold Silver Bronze Position
1 Badminton Men/Women:- National C/Ship 4-9 Jul, 0 0 0 --
2 2015 at Lahore.
2 3 8 4th Taekwondo Men& Women:-- National C /Ship, 2015
3 from 10-17 Sep,2015 at Islamabad.
0 0 0 5th Kabaddi Asian Style:- National C /Ship, 2015 4 Basket ball Women:- National C /Ship, 2015 at 0 0 0 7th
5 Faisalabad.
0 1 0 No Position Boxing:- National C/Ship, 25-29 Nov,2015 at Karachi 6 Hockey:-National C/Ship, 25 Dec to 10 Jan, 2016 0 0 0 Lost in
7 at Karachi.
0 3 5 Q.F
Judo:- National C/Ship, 28-31 Dec,2015 at 2nd
8 Peshawar.
0 0 0 Lost in Foot Ball:- National Q.F Round from 25 Jan to 7
9 Feb. 2016 at Lahore.
0 0 0 F.R
Hockey:- U-21 National C/Ship, 2-12 Mar, 2016 at No Position
10 Lahore.
0 0 0 Lost in Cricket:-Patron's Trophy Gr-II 3-21 Mar, 2016 at
11 Lahore
0 2 3 Q.F
Body Building-64th National C/Ship 1-4 Apr, 2016 at 2nd
12 Lahore
0 2 0 -- Karate:- National C/Ship 12-14 Apr, 2016 at Lahore. 13 Power Lifting Men:- National C/Ship 14-16 Apr, 3 1 1 2nd
14 2016 at Lahore.
2 4 1 2nd Power Lifting Women:-National C/Ship 14-16 Apr,
15 2016 at Lahore.
3 1 4 2nd Cycling:- National C/Ship 14-16 Apr, 2016 at Lahore. 16 Table Tennis Women:--52th National C/Ship 11-16 0 0 0 --
17 Apr, 2016 at Multan.
0 1 0 2nd Table Tennis Men:--52th National C/Ship 11-16 Apr,
18 2016 at Multan.
0 9 9 3rd Taekwondo Men& Women:-- National C /Ship, 6-
19 11 May, 2016 at Karachi.
5th Weight Lifting:- National C/Ship 9-11 May, 2016 at
20 Lahore.
0 1 2 4th Athletics Men:--47th National C/Ship 9-11 May, 2016
21 at Quetta.
0 1 3 4th Athletics Women:--47th National C/Ship 9-11 May,
22 2016 at Quetta.
0 2 3 4th Wrestling:- National C/Ship, from 26-29 May, 2016
23 at Gujranwala.
1 2 0 2nd Beach Wrestling:- National C/Ship, from 26-29 May,
2016 at Gujranwala.
Total 11 33 39 83
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Games Schedule/Results of P.R. Inter Divisional Champions,2015-16
S.No G am e s Dates V e n u e Host Div 1ST 2ND 3RD
1 Karate 8 Sep, 2015 Burt Inst: LHR Lahore Lahore Workshops Karachi
2 Judo 10 Sep, 2015 DO Lahore Workshops Lahore Multan
3 Chess 11-12Sep, 2015 Rly Stadium Workshops Lahore Workshops Multan
4 volley Ball 2-3 Oct, 2015 MGPR INST: WorkShops Workshops Lahore Peshawar
5 Hand Ball 17-18 Oct,15 Rly Stadium Lahore Workshops Lahore Karachi
6 Cricket 16 Oct to 24 Rly Stadium Ins PRSB Karachi Peshawar Multan
Nov,15 MGPR
7 Cycling 7 Nov,2015 Lahore Lahore Workshops Lahore Multan
8 Basket Ball 14-17 Nov,15 MGPR INST: WorkShops Lahore Karachi --
9 Weight Lifting 18 Nov,2015 Rly Stadium Lahore LHR/W Shop -- Karachi
10 Tug of War 24 Nov, 2015 MGPR INST: WorkShops Workshops Karachi --
11 Wrestling 15 Dec, 2015 Rly Stadium WorkShops Workshops Multan Lahore
12 Foot Ball 30Dec to 3 Jan,16 KPT Stadium Karachi Karachi Workshops Multan
13 Kabaddi 12-13 Jan,16 Multan Multan Lahore Multan Workshops
14 Taekwondo 19-20 Jan,16 MGPR INST: WorkShops Workshops Lahore Karachi
15 Table Tennis 22 Jan,16 Mayo Garden PRSB Workshops Karachi Lahore
16 Hockey 6-9 Feb,16 Lahore WorkShops LHR/W/S *** Multan
17 Golf 7 Feb,2016 Lahore WorkShops Workshops Karachi Sukkur
18 Boxing 16-17 Mar,16 Quetta Quetta Quetta Workshops Karachi
19 Badminton 18-19 Mar,16 Mayo Garden WorkShops Workshops Multan Sukkur
20 BodyBuilding 20 Mar,16 Lahore WorkShops Workshops Lahore Karachi
21 Athletics 25-26 Mar,16 Lahore PRSB Multan Lahore WorkShops
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CHAPTER-IV
Railway Inspectorate
Federal Government Inspector of Railways (FGIR):
1. Brief History:
Uptil 1908, control over Railways was exercised by Government
through consulting Engineers. However, in 1908 a new system of
Governmental control of Railways was introduced and the
Government Inspectors were appointed at Calcutta, Lucknow,
Lahore, Bombay and Madras and were placed under the
administrative control of the Railway Board (India). The Railway Inspectorate remained a part of the Railway Board
which was responsible for the administration of Railways in India.
The Pacific Locomotive Committee in 1938, however, recommended
that the Railways Inspectorate should be separated from Railway
Board on the Principles, that those responsible for the inspection of
Railways and holding of enquiries into the causes of accidents
should be independent of the authority administering the Railways
in accordance with Section 181 (3) of the Government of India Act
1935. This recommendation was approved by the Legislative
Assembly in 1939 and by the Council of State in 1940 and accepted
by the Government of India. Accordingly, the Inspectorate was
separated from the Railway Board and placed under the
Communications Department from 12th May, 1941. In India, the Inspectorate is still working on the above lines and is
not under the Railway Board. The Designation of Government
Inspector has, however, been changed to Commissioner (Safety).
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On the establishment of Pakistan, only two Inspectorate Circles
were established one in west Pakistan and other in East Pakistan
and were placed under the same Ministry i.e. Ministry of
Communications. The East Pakistan Circle was subsequently
abolished due to "economy campaign" and since then there is
only one Government Inspector of Railways in Pakistan. The Federal Government Inspector of Railways as generally
recognized has technical advisory and quasi-judicial functions
and has no executive authority. He is supposed to be the Eyes
& Ears of the Federal Government to keep a watch over the
general working and efficiency of the Railways especially with
regard to the safety standards. 2. Appointment of Inspectors:
The Federal Government may appoint one or more suitable
persons not below the rank of the General Manager of
Railways Administration, to be the Inspectors of Railways. 3. Major Responsibility: The Federal Government Inspector of Railways has the prime
responsibility by pointing out defects and short comings in
the Railways working and by making useful and pertinent
suggestions conducive to safe travel. The duties and functions of the Federal Government Inspector of Railways
as laid down in the Railway Act, focus mainly on the safety aspect of
Railway constructions, maintenance and operation. While inspecting track
structures, rolling stock, signaling and interlocking installation, while
examining station records operational staff, repair facilities, etc, and while
holding enquiries into accidents, the safety aspect is always borne in mind
and the reports and recommendations are based on this aspect. Although
the organization is small, consisting of very limited number of officers and
their staff, it renders valuable service by pointing out defects and short-
comings in maintenance and operation of the Railways and by making
suggestions and recommendations for their removal.
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4. Duties and Functions of the F.G.I.R:
The duties and functions of the Federal Government Inspector
of Railways,as specified in the Railway Act and rules, etc.
follow as under :-
(i) Inspections of new lines
To inspect new Railway lines with a view to
determining whether they are fit to be opened for the
public carriage of passengers, and to report thereon
on the Federal Government as required under the Act.
(ii) Periodical Inspections
To make such periodical or other inspection of any Railway
or of any rolling stock and used thereon, as the Federal
Government may direct. This generally covers about 30% of
the route kilometers on proper Annual Inspections by an
Inspection Special accompanied by the Head of Railway
Administration and Principal and other officers and another
25% route kilometers annually as General Tour Inspection.
(iii) Accident enquiries and Rules for holding enquiries
The Federal Government Inspector is required to hold
an enquiry into any accident to a passenger train
which is attended with loss of human life or with
serious injury to any person in the train, or damage to
property of a specified value. He may however, decide
to hold an enquiry into any accident at his discretion
or may order an enquiry in certain cases by Railway
Officers at appropriate level on his behalf.
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(iv) Approval of plans and other works
The Federal Government Inspector of Railways performs
the function of scrutiny and formal sanction of yard
remodeling plans, signal diagrams, working rules and all
other new Engineering, Mechanical and Signaling works
concerning lines used by passenger trains.
Achievement During The Financial Year 2015-16.
S. Services Indicators (Unit of Target achieved
No. Delivery Measurement FY 2015-16
1. Inspection of i)By Annual Inspection
t at al
i) Annual Inspection of 2085
seven operating *2054 to 2464 of track Kms.
Divisions of route Kms.
ii) General Inspections of Pakistan Railways ii)GeneralTour Inspections
**1643 to 2054 of t at al 2225 track Kms.
route Kms.
2. Approval of All As and when demanded 223
type of plans of
Pakistan Railways 3. Approval of Working As and when demanded 44
Rules and Temporary
Working Instructions. 4. Conducting As and when required 2
Accident under the Law
Enquiries (if any)
5. Approval of As and when demanded 2
Technical
Sanctions
6. Other Enquiries of By the Orders of ..
Malpractice/Irregu- Secretary/Chairman as
larities & when required
*25% to 30% and ** 20% and 25% of total route kilometers
As such, no target is fixed. The service is delivered as & when
demanded by Railway Administration. The service is provided
immediately within shortest posssible time.
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CHAPTER-V
Vigilance Directorate
Revival of Vigilance:
The present Directorate of Vigilance was revived in April/2012,
under the direct control of Secretary/Chairman Railways, with the
same powers and functions, as were exercised by the previous
Vigilance Cell, rolled back in 2007. The Vigilance Wing has been
entrusted with certain functions and powers, which are
considered absolutely necessary to perform the assigned duties. 1. Mission:
Annihilation of crimes/corruption
Plug the leakage of revenue & misappropriation of
funds Strengthen the writ of Department
Establish the trust of employees and general public
2. Functions :
The functions/duties of Vigilance are of perpetual nature and
encompass all spheres of activities over Pakistan Railways
such as to identify malpractice, non-adherence of rules,
procedure and instructions. Detail is as under:- 3. Mandate : In performance of its duties, the Vigilance has
authorized to:-Examine Records
Call employee(s) for statement/questioning/enquiry
Examine premises to carry out search
Carry out desired enquiries
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4. Sources of Manpower: All the posts of officers & staff in Vigilance have been and are being
manned by the serving employees of Pakistan Railways on transfer/posting
basis. Direct recruitment/appointment is not made for any post.
5. Organizational Setup: Its Head Office is at Railway Headquarters, Lahore and regional
Directorates have been established at all the Divisional
Headquarters, locally controlled by the Directors, stationed at
Peshawar, Lahore and Karachi. These Directors are assisted by
the officers of BS-17/18 alongwith other supervisory/field staff.
Their jurisdiction and scope of action is briefly as under:-
SN Head Office at Scope of Action / Jurisdiction
1 Director General Railway Overall controlling authority for all the Directors
(BS-20) HQ Lahore and their activities. Directly responsible to the
Secretary/Chairman and Minister for Railways. He coordinates with the CEO, GMs/AGMs and other high-ups.
2 Director/ Admn Railway Performance of this post is multidirectional. The
& Ops (BS-19) Director is PSO to DGV, Chairman & Minister at the
HQ Lahore
same time alongwith administrative and operational
duties. He scrutinizes/finalizes the reports/
complaints, under instructions of the DG/Vig. and dispatches to Secretary/Chairperson and concerned quarters for information and necessary action. In addition to above, he conducts surprise inspections of trains, stations, offices, workshops etc.
3 Director / MOR Islamabad To put up reports to the Secretary/Chairperson
(BS-19) for information and orders/directive; and to convey
the orders of the Chairperson to concerned
authorities for necessary action. He also maintains the liaison between the Vigilance and MOR.
4 Director/ North Peshawar
Peshawar and Rawalpindi Divisions, including
PLF/Risalpur and Federal Area, fall under his (BS-19) jurisdiction.
5 Director/ Lahore Lahore He looks after the vigilance activities over Lahore,
(BS-19) Workshops Divisions.
6 Director/ South Karachi Sukkur, Quetta & Karachi Divisions fall under his (BS-19) jurisdiction.
7 Director/ Multan Multan He will look after vigilance activities over Multan
(BS-19) Division.
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6. Impediments: The Vigilance Directorate and its officers/staff are facing following
obstructions in performing their legitimate duties fearlessly:-
Fear of repatriation and consequences
Frequent transfer/posting to /from Vigilance
Non-provision of requisite record/information
Delay in implementation of recommendations
made by the Vigilance
Shortage of staff
7. Achievements:
The Vigilance Directorate has completed its 4th year of activity
(2015-2016) achieving the set targets successfully. The
Directorate, despite shortage of work force, tried its best to dig
and point out all sorts of irregularities including leakage of
revenue, misappropriation of funds, embezzlements, misuses,
illegal occupation of Railway land and quarters, detention to
trains, attendance of staff, ticketless travelling ambiguities in
auctions & awarding of contracts, inadequate provision of
passenger amenities in trains and at stations, staff matters,
etc. The achievements during year 2015-2016 are summarized
below: -
a. Earning Vigilance shared the Railway earning during fiscal year
2015-16 through ticket-less checking and identifying
outstanding amounts against other government
departments/private sector as under:
i) Ticket-less Checking To discourage ticketless travelling, the Vigilance teams
conducted day/night checking of trains even during
rests/ holidays and earned about Rs. 37.54 million.
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ii) Identification/Recovery of Outstanding Amount During checking of record of Railway land, quarters, shops
pointed out huge outstanding amounts of Rs 551.78 million,
against other government departments/private sector, out
of which, Pakistan Railways recovered an amount of
Rs.402.50 million during 2015- 16. It is worth mentioning here that the total annual budget,
allocated to Vigilance during 2015 -16 was Rs.51.760 million,
out of which, only Rs.16.960 million, were provided for
operating expenses against which it shared the above earning.
b. Identification of Illegally Occupied Railway Land
Identified more than 753.40 acres of Railway land,
illegally occupied and without proper licensing/leasing,
which, if regularized, can bring income of million rupees
to Pakistan Railways. However, as a result of Vigilance
reports, Pakistan Railways retrieved 45.04 acres out of
the above indicated land.
c. Generation/Production of Reports
During the year. Vigilance pointed out about 913
irregularities. Reports on which were sent to the Ministry
and concerned quarters with suitable recommendations.
Out of these, only 127 reports have been finalized; and the
rest are pending/under process with different quarters.
8. Future Planning:
Creation of Cadre
Trainings to Vigilance officers & staff from NAB,
FIA,IB and ISI
Utilization of Information Technology like reminder
generating software, CCTV, electronic mails, etc.
Procurement of Vehicles for conducting raids.
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CHAPTER-VI
Railway Constructions Pakistan Limited (RAILCOP):
Railway Constructions Pakistan Limited (RAILCOP),was
incorporated as a Public Limited Company in 1980 under the
Companies Act 1913, with an initial investment of Rs. 0.5 million.
Due to progress in construction activities the turn over of the
company is Rs. 1300.00 million during the financial year 2015-2016. Vision Statement:
To achieve excellence in Engineering Services with special
emphasis on Railway Sector while continuing to keep success
and profitability, our focus.
Mission Statement:
To perform for our customers the highest level of quality
services at fair and market competitive prices.
Projects Summary: Since its inception, RAILCOP has completed 130 projects worth Rs.
7.630 billion in Pakistan whereas presently the Company is executing
33 projects worth 5.479 billion in different parts of the country. Future Plan:
RAILCOP has also signed an MOU with M/s. China Railways
Construction Corporation (International) Limited (CRCCI) for
joint cooperation in Pakistan Railways infrasturcture projects. RAILCOP has signed an MOU with M/s. Frontier Works
Organization (FWO) for execution of Railway infrastructure
development projects in Pakistan and abroad. RAILCOP is also focusing on upcoming projects of Railways
under CPEC like ML1, for joint cooperation with the foreign
companies for development of Railway infrastructure in Pakistan.
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In order to to expand activities, RAILCOP participated in the
tenders/ prequalifications amounting to Rs. 7 billion other than
railway projects during the year. RAILCOP has also inducted experienced/ qualified project supervisory staff
through advertisement purely on merit basis for planning, execution,
financial control and completion of the project within the stipulated period.
RAILCOP is successfully running operation of Track Machine
Shop, Lahore and track workshop, Raiwind w.e.f. July 1st, 2000.
The workshops continues to contribute effectively towards
efforts of Pakistan Railways in maintenance & rehabilitation of
Railway infrastructures. RAILCOP is manufacturing P- way
fittings and fastenings to meet the requirements of Pakistan
Railways for maintenance and renewals works.
Performance indicators during the financial years 2012-2013 to 2015-2016
are as below :- (Rupees in Million)
S.
Description 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 No.
1 Paid-up Capital 200.00 200.00 200.00 200.00
2 Fixed Assets 91.333 84.670 79.574 76.866
3 Working Capital 1546.407 1610.590 1744.423 1942.935
4 Contract Receipts 643.805 778.729 915.840 1516.119
5 Contract Expenses 579.034 658.929 714.500 1142.054
6 Profit After Tax 23.825 55.348 131.517 269.478
Profit after tax earned by RAILCOP in the financial year 2015-
16 is Rs. 269.478 million which is 104.9% higher as compared
to financial year 2014 -15. This is the maximum net profit in a
year earned by RAILCOP since its inception in 1980.
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CHAPTER-VII
Chief Internal Auditor
Establishment of CIA Office:
Office of Chief Internal Auditor was established in 1999 headed
by a BS-20 Officer. Prior to this, the office was working under
the adminis-trative control of FA & CAO (Modernization) Mandate of CIA Office:
The office of Chief Internal Auditor regulates its functions
under Inspec-tion Manual/Internal Audit Manual. Responsibilities of CIA Office:
* To undertake Internal Audit Inspection of the
formations of Pakistan Railways and to co-ordinate
with Executive, Statutory Audit and Public Accounts
Committee through Ministry of Railway.
* To carry out special studies/ special tasks assigned by the
Railways to improve operational as well as financial management.
* To probe into complaints/ inquiries.
* To issue Annual Internal Audit Reports and their follow-up.
* To compile/ consolidate replies to Specific Reports,
Draft Paras, Audit Paras, MFDAC Paras, prepare SORs
for meeting and examine replies to PAC/DAC directives. Annual Internal Audit Reports Compiled and Issued uptil now:
The CIA office has prepared and issued 16 reports from the
year 1999-2000 to 2014-2015 containing 3063 Paras. Backlog of Internal Audit Inspection Reports:
There are 2178 outstanding Internal Audit Inspection Reports
relating to the period from 1983-84 to 2014-2015.
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Special Assignments/Special Studies conducted at the in-
stance of Ministry of Railways /Railway Management:
CIA office has conducted 28 special Studies/special Audit from
the year 2007- 08 to 2014 -15 despite shortage of staff and lack
of expertise. Risk Based Audit:
This office has increased its scope of audit activities changed
audit approach and reporting style. Since 2012, CIA office has
started risk based audit/Issue Based Audit keeping in view
objectives of organization, risk assessment and performance
target. Risk factors and materiality concepts are considered
during the preparation of Annual Audit Plan of different
department incurring expenditure. Crucial/high risk processes
involving procurement, recoveries, theft, losses, deficiencies in
rolling/store stocks, unnecessary blockage/retention of material,
consumption of HSD Oil, non -realization of charges i.e.
demurrage, liquidity, electrical etc, encroachment of Railway
Land, lease and rental charges are included in Annual Internal
Audit Report. Low risk areas are not included in Annual Internal
Audit Report and are dealt at departmental level.
It is informed with great satisfaction that management has
shown keen interest to address all these issues leading to
better financial health of Railways.
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CHAPTER-VIII
Pakistan Railway Advisory and Consultancy
Services Limited (PRACS):
Pakistan Railways Advisory & Consultancy Services Limited
(PRACS) was incorporated in 1976 as a private Limited
Company under Companies Act 1913. It was converted to
Public Limited Company under the Companies Ordinance,
1984. It is governed by a Board of Directors under the
Chairmanship of Secretary/Chairman Railways. The other
members of the Board include, Chief Executive Officer/Sr.
General Manager/Member Finance, General Manager/M & S,
General Manager/W&SI, Additional General Manager/Infra
structure, Additional General Manager/Mechanical, Additional
General Manager/ Traffic and Managing Director/PRACS. Our Experience:
PRACS has completed 40 years of high quality performance in
numerous Railway related and general consultancy fields. It
has successfully completed over 200 assignments pertaining
to Civil/Mechanical Engineering, Commercial and
transportation disciplines; including feasibility studies, project
management, provision of services, coordination of field
surveys and consultancy services.
Area of Specialization:
Our area of specialization includes planning, construction,
operation, maintenance of Railways, management of men and
material, marketing, tourism, training and other related fields.
The manner in which PRACS operates ensures availability of
its ser-vices at competitive rates.
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PRACS can provide manpower and experts/consultants in
vari-ous fields such as Railway construction, maintenance,
opera-tions, signaling and management. It can also assist in
estab-lishment of new Railway/Road networks, workshops and
trans-port systems. Our international assignments during the
period cover, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Senegal, Syria,
Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Iran. PRACS is presently engaged in two Civil Engineering Projects.
1. Feasibility Study for Rail Link from Gaddar FFBL Plant Karachi.
2. Feasibility Study for Upgradation of Shahdra-Narowal-
Sialkot-Wizirabad & Narowal-Chak Amru Section.
3. Renovation/ Improvement of Railway Victoria Bridge over Jhelum
River at Chak Nizam District, Mandi Bahauddin N.A. 109.
In order to provide Reservation / booking facilities to the t r a v
e l i n g p u b l i c a t t h e i r d o o r s t e p s , P R A C S h a s
established 20 Reservation Offices in major cities and towns
throughout Pakistan. Moreover, PRACS previously successfully handled
commercial management and passenger facilitation of Hazara
Express Train from 2006 to 2016 and converted loss making
train into profit making train. PRACS with the authorization of Pakistan Railways tendered
for branding of trains and railway stations and achieved good
results. 14 railway stations and 5 trains have been identified
thus generating handsome revenue for Pakistan Railways.
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PRACS Civil Engineering Department:
A. Projects In Hand : S.No. Name of Project Client Value
1. Feasibility Study for Rail Link from M/s Fauji Fertilizer Bin Rs. 2.8 Gaddar to FFBL Plant Karachi. Qasim Limited (FFBL). Million
Islamabad
2. Feasibility Study for Up- Gradation of M/s Pakistan Rs. 3.4 Shahdra-Narowal-Sialkot Wazirabad & Railways Million
Narowal-Chak Amru Section
3. Renovation/Improvement of Railway M/s Pakistan Public Rs. Victoria Bridge over Jhelum River at Chak Works Departments 7.3Million Nizam District, Mandi Bahauddin (PWD). Islamabad
N.A.109.
Railway Reservation & Information Offices managed by PRACS
S.No. City and Address. Phone No.
1. Ground Floor, Melody Market, G-6 Near G.P.O, Islamabad. 051-9207474
2. G-9, Markaz, Paragon Center, Karachi Company, Islamabad. 051-9262250
3. Shop No.I–184/L Al Kareem Plaza, Murree Road, Rawalpindi. 051-5542221
4. Current Reservation Office, Railway Station, Rawalpindi. 051-9270395
5. Current & Advance Reservation Office, Railway Station, Lahore. 042-99203552
6. PRACS sub office Opposite UET Gate No. 3, G. T Road, Lahore. 042-36856940
7. 18-A Umer Center, Akbar Chowk Town Ship Lahore. 042-35141087
8. Rajpoot Market, Near Tableeghi Markaz, Raiwind. 042-35394419
9. Outside Daulat Gate, Circular Road, Multan. 061-4502022
10. Jinnah Terminal, Quaid-e-Azam International Airport, Karachi. 021-99071106
11. Shop No. 18, Haroon Center, Abu Isphani Road, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi. 0332-2435941
12. GK-03 Ground Floor, E.O.B.I. office, Awami Markaz,Shahrah-e-Faisal, 0300-2141089
Karachi.
13. Mango Pir Road, Chorangi S.I.T.E. Karachi . 021-32570111
14. Cantonement Area, Malir Cant, Karachi. 0300-2224820
15. Pakistan Bazar, Pakistan Steel Town, Karachi. 021-99264111/3232
16. U.P. More Sarjani Road, North Karachi. 021-36974490
17. Shop-1, Al Syed Center, Opp Agha Khan Laboratory, Quidabad, Karachi. 0300-2717218
18. Nasir Colony, Korangi, Karachi. 021-35069567
19. Ch. Cornor, Main Road, Sanghar 0300-8088108
20. Itefaq Palaza, Shop No.10, Mir Khalil-ur-Rehman Road, Quetta. 081-2841975
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CHAPTER-IX
Railway Estate Development & Marketing
Company (PVT) Limited:
REDAMCO was established on 12th March, 2012 to be managed
by a Board of Directors, having members from private and
public sectors. Its scope of work changed from time to time.
Presently it deals with:-
1. Commercial exploitation of surplus Railway land.
2. Real Estate Development through value addition. 3. Franchising and awarding of selling rights to national
and international brands.
4. Marketing and landscaping of selected Railway stations, in
line with PR's policy to re-construct and renovate them.
5. Maintenance of Railway's heritage points and preservation
of vintage items.
In December 2013 a paradigm shift in business was introduced,
whereby, instead of leasing out properties on long leases, value
addition of assets was initiated through a Real Estate Development
Program. A Consortia of Technical, Financial and Legal consultants
constituted to set outlines for commercial exploitation of real state
through REDAMCO. working in line with the new decision,
REDAMCO, now has a solid business map reflecting organization
value that would be sustainable and profitable. New valuators, on
the approved list of State Bank of Pakistan have been appointed to
ascertain value of the property declared surplus by Railways for the
purpose of commercial use. It is being planned to select renowned
companies to accomplish construction work. REDAMCO has its main office in Rawalpindi with sub offices in Karachi,
Lahore and Peshawar. Recently another sub office has been established in
Sukkur to cover commercial activity in Sukkur and Quetta.Railways
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has started upgradation of important stations over the network.
At Bahawalpur, Sahiwal, Okara, Narowal etc. reconstruction is in
full swing. Main stations of Karachi, Rohri, Quetta, Multan,
Lahore, Rawalpindi and Peshawar, in addition to some others, are
planned to be upgraded under CPEC Project. Thirty one more
station will be maintained keeping environment of the station and
passenger facilitation in view. Once upgraded, commercial
exploitation will be managed by REDAMCO on major stations.
Following facilities are planned to be provided, keeping yard's
layout and avaiable land, in each case separately.
1 Market Area 2 Food courts
3 Gymnasium 4 Play lands
5 Offices 6 Mosques
7 Fuel Station 8 Multiplex Golra Museum: REDAMCO has been entrusted with the task of conservation and
appropriate display of articles of antiquities at Golra Museum as well.
Heritage cell of REDAMCO is in the process of conservation of
this architectural marvel. Heritage cell is also entrusted with
preparation of brochures, booklets to highlight history and
heritage of Railways starting from 1861 to date. Curator and an
Assistant Curator have been selected for the museum to
accomplish the task. Azadi Train: Azadi Train, on the pattern of Fatima Jinnah Special, was
inaugurated on 2014 after lapse of many years. On 11 th August,
2016, it was started from Margalla Railway station in more
befitting manner with special emphasis on Kashmir Movement.
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