{"id":79373,"date":"2021-09-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=79373"},"modified":"2021-09-03T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T10:17:43","slug":"peshawars-brt-subsidy-pkr-2-8-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/peshawars-brt-subsidy-pkr-2-8-billion.html","title":{"rendered":"Peshawar\u2019s BRT to get subsidy worth PKR 2.8 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peshawar: Special Assistant to the Chief Minister (CM) on Information and Higher Education and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government spokesperson Kamran Bangash on Thursday (September 2) announced that the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project will receive PKR 2.8 billion subsidy during the fiscal year 2021-22, according to media reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/over-300000-peshawar-brt-cards-distributed-2-weeks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Over 300,000 Peshawar BRT cards distributed in 2 weeks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While talking to the media, the special assistant stated that the BRT has higher ridership than other mass transit services in the country. As per the details shared, more than 160,000 passengers use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/peshawar-brt-reveals-commuters-stats-since-launch-in-august.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BRT<\/a> every day. He added that the fare for BRT is lowest \u2013 starting from PKR 10 \u2013 in comparison to other services as the average fare was PKR 20.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, Kamran Bangash mentioned that mass transit services all over the world depend on subsidies. It is important to mention that the Multan Metro received PKR 3.6 billion subsidy, Orange Line Metro Train got PKR 8 billion, and Lahore Metro got PKR 4.1 billion subsidy from the Punjab government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/peshawar-brt-run-full-capacity-two-weeks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Peshawar BRT to run at full capacity in two weeks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Special Assistant to the CM Kamran Bangash disclosed that the low fares were decided to facilitate the underprivileged segment of the society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: Special Assistant to the Chief Minister (CM) on Information and Higher Education and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government spokesperson Kamran Bangash on Thursday (September 2) announced that the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project will receive PKR 2.8 billion subsidy during the fiscal year 2021-22, according to media reports.\u00a0 Read: Over 300,000 Peshawar BRT cards distributed in 2 weeks While talking to the media, the special assistant stated that the BRT has higher ridership than other mass transit services in the country. As per the details shared, more than 160,000 passengers use BRT every day. He added that the fare for BRT is lowest \u2013 starting from PKR 10 \u2013 in comparison to other services as the average fare was PKR 20.\u00a0 Moreover, Kamran Bangash mentioned that mass transit services all over the world depend on subsidies. It is important to mention that the Multan Metro received PKR 3.6 billion subsidy, Orange Line Metro Train got PKR 8 billion, and Lahore Metro got PKR 4.1 billion subsidy from the Punjab government. Read: Peshawar BRT to run at full capacity in two weeks Special Assistant to the CM Kamran Bangash disclosed that the low fares were decided to facilitate the underprivileged segment&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":66782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[47942,47940,47941,47943],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-79373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-developments","tag-details-about-the-usage-of-brt","tag-peshawars-brt-to-get-subsidy-worth-pkr-2-8-billion","tag-peshawars-bus-rapid-transit","tag-subsidy-given-to-brt","cat-15016-id"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Peshawar\u2019s BRT to get subsidy worth PKR 2.8 billion - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Special Assistant to the Chief Minister (CM) on Information and Higher Education and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government spokesperson Kamran Bangash....\" \/>\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\/peshawars-brt-subsidy-pkr-2-8-billion.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peshawar\u2019s BRT to get subsidy worth PKR 2.8 billion - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Special Assistant to the Chief Minister (CM) on Information and Higher Education and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government spokesperson Kamran Bangash....\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/peshawars-brt-subsidy-pkr-2-8-billion.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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