{"id":63991,"date":"2020-04-13T12:53:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T07:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=63991"},"modified":"2020-04-13T12:53:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T07:53:58","slug":"pakistan-railways-utilise-vacant-land-generating-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-railways-utilise-vacant-land-generating-revenue.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Railways to utilise vacant land for generating revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Pakistan Railways (PR) has announced its decision to utilise its vacant land tracts spread across the country to generate revenue, a news source reported. To this effect, the department is expected to launch development projects on 10,937 acres in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-railways-shares-details-train-stations-upgraded-last-4-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Pakistan Railways shares details on train stations upgraded in last 4 years (opens in a new tab)\">Pakistan Railways shares details on train stations upgraded in last 4 years<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to details, PR owns 167,690 acres of land across\nthe country. They added that the department had leased out 15,172 acres of land\nfor different purposes. Out of this, the Ministry of Railways owns 8,439 acres of\nvacant land in Punjab, 263 acres in Sindh, 1,355 acres in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\n(KP), and 880 acres in Balochistan. Meanwhile, 3,330 acres of land remained\nunder encroachment, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, PR is currently using 1,086 acres of land for Railway\nHousing Societies in the four provinces. According to officials, 806 acres of\nland is under the use of regular and non-regular <em>katchi abadis<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department has reserved 12,808 acres of land in all provinces for the purposes of future operational use. This includes 4,364 acres in Punjab, 900 acres in Sindh, 1,800 acres in KP, and 5,744 acres in Balochistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-railways-finalises-policy-to-lease-4685-acres.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Pakistan Railways finalises policy to lease 4,685 acres of land for commercial use (opens in a new tab)\">Pakistan Railways finalises policy to lease 4,685 acres of land for commercial use<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incumbent government has also leased out 6,496 acres of\nPR\u2019s land to different departments and private persons for generating revenue\nvia parking stands, agricultural activities, and stacking, premium shops. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Pakistan Railways (PR) has announced its decision to utilise its vacant land tracts spread across the country to generate revenue, a news source reported. To this effect, the department is expected to launch development projects on 10,937 acres in the near future. Read: Pakistan Railways shares details on train stations upgraded in last 4 years According to details, PR owns 167,690 acres of land across the country. They added that the department had leased out 15,172 acres of land for different purposes. Out of this, the Ministry of Railways owns 8,439 acres of vacant land in Punjab, 263 acres in Sindh, 1,355 acres in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and 880 acres in Balochistan. Meanwhile, 3,330 acres of land remained under encroachment, they said. Moreover, PR is currently using 1,086 acres of land for Railway Housing Societies in the four provinces. According to officials, 806 acres of land is under the use of regular and non-regular katchi abadis. The department has reserved 12,808 acres of land in all provinces for the purposes of future operational use. This includes 4,364 acres in Punjab, 900 acres in Sindh, 1,800 acres in KP, and 5,744 acres in Balochistan. Read: Pakistan Railways finalises policy to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":61922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012,15016],"tags":[26066],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"category-new-developments","9":"tag-details-on-pakistan-railways-to-utilise-vacant-land-for-generating-revenue","10":"cat-15012-id","11":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan Railways to utilise vacant land for generating revenue - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pakistan Railways (PR) has announced its decision to utilise its vacant land tracts spread across the country to generate revenue, a news source reported.\" \/>\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\/pakistan-railways-utilise-vacant-land-generating-revenue.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan Railways to utilise vacant land for generating revenue - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pakistan Railways (PR) has announced its decision to utilise its vacant land tracts spread across the country to generate revenue, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-railways-utilise-vacant-land-generating-revenue.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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