{"id":69074,"date":"2020-08-10T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=69074"},"modified":"2020-08-07T18:19:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T13:19:26","slug":"up-to-90-ml-1-project-workforce-local-railways-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/up-to-90-ml-1-project-workforce-local-railways-minister.html","title":{"rendered":"Up to 90% of ML-1 project workforce to be local: Railways Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed on Thursday stated that up to 90% of the Main Line-I (ML-I) project\u2019s workforce would consist of local hires \u2014 with the initiative expected to create nearly 150,000 labour and technical jobs in the country, a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ecnec-approve-upgradation-project-of-ml-1-track-others.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ECNEC approves upgradation project of ML-1 track, others<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ML-1 is the biggest project of its kind in the country\u2019s history, and will connect Karachi with Peshawar through a 1,780-kilometre-long track. Ahmed further added that not only will the project create jobs, it would also propel the country\u2019s economy forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ml-1-railway-project-increase-pakistans-transport-share-bajwa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ML-1 Railway project to increase Pakistan\u2019s transport share by 16%: Bajwa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) had recently approved the ML-1 project, under which the existing track will be upgraded. The track was initially laid in 1861 but has now fallen into dilapidated conditions that have led to several accidents in the past. After the development work has been completed on the project, modern trains will be able to operate on the track at a speed of up to 160 kilometres per hours without any issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed on Thursday stated that up to 90% of the Main Line-I (ML-I) project\u2019s workforce would consist of local hires \u2014 with the initiative expected to create nearly 150,000 labour and technical jobs in the country, a news source reported. Read: ECNEC approves upgradation project of ML-1 track, others The ML-1 is the biggest project of its kind in the country\u2019s history, and will connect Karachi with Peshawar through a 1,780-kilometre-long track. Ahmed further added that not only will the project create jobs, it would also propel the country\u2019s economy forward. Read: ML-1 Railway project to increase Pakistan\u2019s transport share by 16%: Bajwa The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) had recently approved the ML-1 project, under which the existing track will be upgraded. The track was initially laid in 1861 but has now fallen into dilapidated conditions that have led to several accidents in the past. After the development work has been completed on the project, modern trains will be able to operate on the track at a speed of up to 160 kilometres per hours without any issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":62358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[34528,36655,36656],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-china-pakistan-economic-corridor-cpec-3","9":"tag-ml-1","10":"tag-up-to-90-of-ml-1-project-workforce-to-be-local-railways-minister","11":"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>Up to 90% of ML-1 project workforce to be local: Minister - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed on Thursday stated that up to 90% of the Main Line-I (ML-I) project\u2019s workforce would consist of local hires \u2014 with the initiative expected to create nearly 150,000 labour and technical jobs in the country, 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\/up-to-90-ml-1-project-workforce-local-railways-minister.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Up to 90% of ML-1 project workforce to be local: Minister - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed on Thursday stated that up to 90% of the Main Line-I (ML-I) project\u2019s workforce would consist of local hires \u2014 with the initiative expected to create nearly 150,000 labour and technical jobs in the country, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/up-to-90-ml-1-project-workforce-local-railways-minister.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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