{"id":71227,"date":"2020-10-07T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=71227"},"modified":"2020-10-06T17:51:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T12:51:19","slug":"railways-minister-shares-details-three-phase-revival-plan-kcr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/railways-minister-shares-details-three-phase-revival-plan-kcr.html","title":{"rendered":"Railways Minister shares details of three-phase revival plan for KCR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Monday shared the plans for a proposed three-phase revival of the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) project during a visit to inspect the rehabilitation of carriages for the venture \u2014 a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pr-restores-kcr-track-city-shah-abdul-latif-stations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PR restores KCR track from city to Shah Abdul Latif stations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, the first phase of development will involve the restoration of train tracks between Karachi City and Orangi station, from Orangi station to Gilani station, and from Gilani station to Drug Colony. Funds worth PKR 150 million have been allocated for the repair of nine stations and platforms, and 15 level crossings. Additionally, tenders worth PKR 50 million were also issued in July for the upgradation of electrical signals and telecommunications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister added that 10 locomotives and 40 coaches had also been handed over to the carriage factory for repairs and renovations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Rashid further disclosed that in the second phase, the KCR project would be upgraded at a cost of PKR 8.7 billion \u2014 with these funds to be used to increase the number of trains from 32 to 48, and improving the passenger capacity from 16,000 to 24,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fwo-to-construct-of-flyovers-underpasses-at-kcr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sindh, FWO partner up for construction of flyovers, underpasses at KCR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the final phase, the project will be upgraded to a modern urban transit system under a public-private partnership model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Monday shared the plans for a proposed three-phase revival of the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) project during a visit to inspect the rehabilitation of carriages for the venture \u2014 a news source reported. Read: PR restores KCR track from city to Shah Abdul Latif stations Reportedly, the first phase of development will involve the restoration of train tracks between Karachi City and Orangi station, from Orangi station to Gilani station, and from Gilani station to Drug Colony. Funds worth PKR 150 million have been allocated for the repair of nine stations and platforms, and 15 level crossings. Additionally, tenders worth PKR 50 million were also issued in July for the upgradation of electrical signals and telecommunications. The minister added that 10 locomotives and 40 coaches had also been handed over to the carriage factory for repairs and renovations. Minister Rashid further disclosed that in the second phase, the KCR project would be upgraded at a cost of PKR 8.7 billion \u2014 with these funds to be used to increase the number of trains from 32 to 48, and improving the passenger capacity from 16,000 to 24,000. Read: Sindh, FWO partner up for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":61674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[36787,40941,40940],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-kcr-revival","9":"tag-railways-minister-shares-details-of-three-phase-revival-plan-for-kcr","10":"tag-railways-ministr","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>Railways Minister shares details of three-phase revival plan for KCR - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Monday shared the plans for a proposed three-phase revival of the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) project during a visit to inspect the rehabilitation of carriages for the venture \u2014 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\/railways-minister-shares-details-three-phase-revival-plan-kcr.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Railways Minister shares details of three-phase revival plan for KCR - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Monday shared the plans for a proposed three-phase revival of the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) project during a visit to inspect the rehabilitation of carriages for the venture \u2014 a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/railways-minister-shares-details-three-phase-revival-plan-kcr.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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