{"id":63499,"date":"2020-04-01T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=63499"},"modified":"2020-04-01T13:03:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T08:03:58","slug":"relief-package-pakistan-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/relief-package-pakistan-railways.html","title":{"rendered":"ECC approves relief package of PKR 6bn for Pakistan Railways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has approved a relief package of PKR 6 billion for Pakistan Railways (PR) which is expected to help ease it through the time of the lockdown cause by COVID-19 pandemic, a news source reported. The amount will be provided to the Ministry of Railways over a period of 3 months in instalments of PKR 2 billion each. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pr-turns-train-coaches-into-isolation-wards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"PR turns train coaches into isolation wards (opens in a new tab)\">PR turns train coaches into isolation wards<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funds will be primarily spent on the staff salaries and pensions. The department had already stopped running the passenger trains on March 24. Earlier, the government\u2019s plan was to resume the services in April, however, on Monday, Railways Secretary Habibur Rehman Gillani announced that this has extended to an indefinite period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cell-formed-at-pm-office-to-ascertain-corona-trends.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Cell formed at PM office to ascertain corona trends (opens in a new tab)\">Cell formed at PM office to ascertain corona trends<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the railway officials, the relief package of\nPKR 2 billion per month would help counter the losses owing to the suspension\nof passenger trains. Reportedly, the freight trains are still functioning,\ntherefore railways are still generating nearly 35% of the revenue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has approved a relief package of PKR 6 billion for Pakistan Railways (PR) which is expected to help ease it through the time of the lockdown cause by COVID-19 pandemic, a news source reported. The amount will be provided to the Ministry of Railways over a period of 3 months in instalments of PKR 2 billion each. Read: PR turns train coaches into isolation wards The funds will be primarily spent on the staff salaries and pensions. The department had already stopped running the passenger trains on March 24. Earlier, the government\u2019s plan was to resume the services in April, however, on Monday, Railways Secretary Habibur Rehman Gillani announced that this has extended to an indefinite period. Read: Cell formed at PM office to ascertain corona trends According to the railway officials, the relief package of PKR 2 billion per month would help counter the losses owing to the suspension of passenger trains. Reportedly, the freight trains are still functioning, therefore railways are still generating nearly 35% of the revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":61922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[24820],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-ecc-approves-relief-package-of-pkr-6bn-for-pakistan-railways","9":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Relief Package for Pakistan Railways - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has approved a relief package of PKR 6 billion for Pakistan Railways (PR) which is expected to help ease\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/relief-package-pakistan-railways.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Relief Package for Pakistan Railways - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has approved a relief package of PKR 6 billion for Pakistan Railways (PR) which is expected to help ease\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/relief-package-pakistan-railways.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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