{"id":89479,"date":"2022-10-21T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=89479"},"modified":"2022-10-21T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T07:55:17","slug":"cdwp-usd-9-1-bn-railway-ml-1-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cdwp-usd-9-1-bn-railway-ml-1-project.html","title":{"rendered":"CDWP approves USD 9.1 bn railway ML-1 project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Islamabad: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has approved the USD 9.85 billion Pakistan Railways (PR) Main-Line-1 (ML-1) project, news sources reported on October 20.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-early-launch-ml-1-project.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"89074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pakistan, China for early launch of ML-1 project<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project is recommended to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ecnec-multi-billion-development-projects.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"89175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC)<\/a> for final approval. The project is approved in principle, with a 45% increase in construction costs over the original estimate. According to the amended cost plan, the project\u2019s development work has been divided into two parts, with the first phase concerned with the actual construction of the ML-1, which would cost PKR 1.97 trillion. The second phase would cost PKR 35.991 billion and is concerned with ML-1&#8217;s security during development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new Project Concept-1 (PC-1) will rehabilitate a 1,733-kilometer-long route, with 482 underpasses, 53 flyovers, 130 bike bridges, and 130 stations built along the way. It was highlighted that the first phase will be completed in three separate packages, with Package-I consisting of five components, including the Nawabshah-Rohri section, the Multan-Lahore section, the Lahore-Lalamusa section, the Kaluwal-Pandora section, and the Upgradation of Pakistan Railways Training Academy (Walton).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cdwp-approves-projects-referred-ecnec.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"86967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CDWP approves projects, refers 6 projects to ECNEC for approval<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, the scope of the project included the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Laying of a new track with improved subgrade for 160 kilometre-per-hour (km\/h) to increase speed from 65-105 (km\/h) to 120-160 (km\/h)<\/li><li>Rehabilitation and construction of significant bridges<\/li><li>Provision of modern signalling &amp; telecom systems<\/li><li>Conversion of level crossings into underpasses and flyovers<\/li><li>Fencing of tracks<\/li><li>Establishment of the dry port near Havelian<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ecnec-revised-sukkur-hyderabad-motorway.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"87185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ECNEC approves revised Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway (M-6), other projects<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is important to mention that the framework agreement of the ML-1 project was signed on May 15, 2017, during the prime minister\u2019s visit to China. The commercial contract for the preliminary design was also signed on May 15, 2017. The project had been declared \u2018strategic\u2019 by the 6th JCC meeting, and its feasibility had already been completed and approved by the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) in August 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has approved the USD 9.85 billion Pakistan Railways (PR) Main-Line-1 (ML-1) project, news sources reported on October 20.\u00a0 Read: Pakistan, China for early launch of ML-1 project The project is recommended to the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) for final approval. The project is approved in principle, with a 45% increase in construction costs over the original estimate. According to the amended cost plan, the project\u2019s development work has been divided into two parts, with the first phase concerned with the actual construction of the ML-1, which would cost PKR 1.97 trillion. The second phase would cost PKR 35.991 billion and is concerned with ML-1&#8217;s security during development. The new Project Concept-1 (PC-1) will rehabilitate a 1,733-kilometer-long route, with 482 underpasses, 53 flyovers, 130 bike bridges, and 130 stations built along the way. It was highlighted that the first phase will be completed in three separate packages, with Package-I consisting of five components, including the Nawabshah-Rohri section, the Multan-Lahore section, the Lahore-Lalamusa section, the Kaluwal-Pandora section, and the Upgradation of Pakistan Railways Training Academy (Walton). Read: CDWP approves projects, refers 6 projects to ECNEC for approval Furthermore, the scope of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":62358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20385],"tags":[54588,54589,20652],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-89479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-development-projects","tag-cdwp-to-authorise-usd-9-1-bn-railway-ml-1-project-today","tag-main-line-1-karachi-to-peshawar","tag-pakistan-railways-main-line-1-project","cat-20385-id"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CDWP approves USD 9.1 bn railway ML-1 project - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has approved the USD 9.85 billion Pakistan Railways (PR) Main-Line-1 (ML-1) project, news sources\" \/>\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\/cdwp-usd-9-1-bn-railway-ml-1-project.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CDWP approves USD 9.1 bn railway ML-1 project - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has approved the USD 9.85 billion Pakistan Railways (PR) Main-Line-1 (ML-1) project, news sources\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cdwp-usd-9-1-bn-railway-ml-1-project.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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