{"id":79432,"date":"2021-09-07T11:35:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=79432"},"modified":"2021-09-07T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:37:27","slug":"pm-imran-khan-inaugurate-kcr-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-imran-khan-inaugurate-kcr-this-week.html","title":{"rendered":"PM to inaugurate Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan is expected to inaugurate Karachi Circular Railways (KCR) on September 11, 2021, during his visit to Karachi, news sources reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kcr-project-6bn-fund.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sindh to invest PKR 6 bn to operationalise KCR project: CM Murad<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the KCR project details, the 43.13-kilometre-long modern circular railroad is a federally-sponsored project that will be completed in three phases. Once completed, the flagship project will serve a total of 550,000 people on a daily basis. According to sources in Railways, the project will comprise 14.95 kilometres on land while the remaining 28 kilometres of the project will be built on elevated pillars. A total of 24 stations have been included in the project.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/world-bank-to-finance-yellow-line-busway-project.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"28698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The World Bank (WB),<\/a> the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/french-govt-to-provide-soft-loan-for-karachi-red-line-brt.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"74950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">French bank<\/a> have all contributed to KCR&#8217;s funding. During his previous visit to Karachi in August, Minister for Planning, Development &amp; Special Initiatives Asad Umer instructed the authorities to make all necessary preparations for KCR&#8217;s groundbreaking in the second week of September.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/work-kcr-start-from-september.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Work on KCR to start from September<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, the premier \u2013 during his visit to Karachi \u2013 will also convene high-level meetings to assess progress on other federally sponsored projects, including the Karachi Green Line project, which is also a massive project aimed at improving Karachi mass transportation system and resolving traffic issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan is expected to inaugurate Karachi Circular Railways (KCR) on September 11, 2021, during his visit to Karachi, news sources reported.\u00a0 Read: Sindh to invest PKR 6 bn to operationalise KCR project: CM Murad As per the KCR project details, the 43.13-kilometre-long modern circular railroad is a federally-sponsored project that will be completed in three phases. Once completed, the flagship project will serve a total of 550,000 people on a daily basis. According to sources in Railways, the project will comprise 14.95 kilometres on land while the remaining 28 kilometres of the project will be built on elevated pillars. A total of 24 stations have been included in the project.&nbsp;&nbsp; The World Bank (WB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and a French bank have all contributed to KCR&#8217;s funding. During his previous visit to Karachi in August, Minister for Planning, Development &amp; Special Initiatives Asad Umer instructed the authorities to make all necessary preparations for KCR&#8217;s groundbreaking in the second week of September.\u00a0 Read: Work on KCR to start from September According to reports, the premier \u2013 during his visit to Karachi \u2013 will also convene high-level meetings to assess progress on other federally sponsored&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":61674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20385],"tags":[47984,4468,47985],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-development-projects","8":"tag-karachi-circular-railways-kcr","9":"tag-kcr","10":"tag-pm-imran-khan-to-inaugurate-kcr-this-week","11":"cat-20385-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PM to inaugurate Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) this week- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan is expected to inaugurate Karachi Circular Railways (KCR) on September 11, 2021, during his visit to Karachi, news\" \/>\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\/pm-imran-khan-inaugurate-kcr-this-week.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PM to inaugurate Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) this week- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan is expected to inaugurate Karachi Circular Railways (KCR) on September 11, 2021, during his visit to Karachi, news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-imran-khan-inaugurate-kcr-this-week.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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