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1. Pakistan Railways

2. Presented by
 Ahsan Zaffar
 Annum Naeem
 Daniyal Aziz
 Faiza Hussain
 Sarmad Imdad

3. Content
 History
 Domestic routes
 International lines
 Ministry of Railway
 GM Railway
 Railway division
 Decline of Pakistan Railways

4. Contd…
 Government role
 Revenue Vs. Expenditures
 Disasters
 Condition of employees
 Finance Ministry refusal
 Role of private sector
 Question and answer session.

5. History
 The idea of a rail network was first thought of in 1847.
 Sir Henry Edward Frere, appointed as the Commissioner of
Sindh, sought permission from Lord Dalhousie to begin a survey
for a Karachi Seaport and a railway line in 1858.
 On May 13th, 1861 the first railway line was opened to the
public, between Karachi (city) and Kotri, with a total distance of
105 miles (169 km).

6. Contd…
 By 1886, there were four railway companies operating
in Pakistan. The Scinde (Sindh) Railways, Indian
Flotilla Company, Punjab Railway and Delhi
Railways.
 At the time of independence, 1,947 route miles
(3,133 km) of North Western Railways were
transferred to India, leaving 5,048 route miles
(8,122 km) to Pakistan.
 In 1954, the railway line was extended
to Mardan and Charsada.

7. Contd…
 In 1956 the Jacobabad kashmore
2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge line
was converted into broad gauge.
 In 1961, the Pakistani portion of North Western Railways was
renamed Pakistan Railways.
 The Kot Adu-Kashmore line was constructed between 1969 and
1973 providing an alternative route from Karachi to northern
Pakistan.

8.  A year 1900 view of the Karachi-Kemari Train

9. Domestic Routes
 Peshawar-Karachi
 Peshawar-Quetta
 Lahore-Sialkot
 Lahore-Faisalabad
 Faisalabad-Khanewal

10. International Lines
 Direct rail connections with China were proposed by Pervez
Musharraf in 2006.
 A container train service from Pakistan to Turkey has been
launched.
 In spring 2009, a rail link between Quetta and Zahedan (in Iran)
was constructed, allowing Pakistan Railways direct access
to Europe and the Middle East

11. Ministry of Railway
Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour is a Federal Minister for
Railways
Early education from the Khudad Model School
and Islamia School Peshawar.
Intermediate from Edwards College and got married soon
afterwards.

12. GM Pakistan Railway
 GM : Mr.Saeed Akhtar

13. Railways Division
 President of division : Mr. Imtiaz Ahmad.
There are four (4) Directorates in this Division namely:
 Administrative Directorate,
 Technical Directorate,
 Planning Directorate, and
 Finance Directorate

14. Decline Of Pakistan Railways
 Pakistan Railways is not only the cheapest
yet safest mode of travel.
 This public state enterprise is also the largest
civil employer in the country.
 Over the years, lack of attention, poor policies, increasing
expenditures, misappropriation of funds, pilferage, nepotism and
most recently, the floods have left the Railways with huge deficits
running in billions of rupees

15. Contd...
 Till the 1970s, Pakistan Railways was run by an autonomous
four-member policy forming Railway Board which constituted a
Member Traffic, Member Mechanical, Member Civil and
Member Finance.
 In 1990, the government appointed an officer from the Civil
Services of Pakistan chairman and from then on there has been a
rapid decline not only in performance but also the balance sheet
of the organization.

16. Contd…
 Till 1990, the carriage factory in Islamabad was exporting freight
wagons and coaches to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, in addition to meeting
local requirements.
 Rather than augmenting this facility, the lure of kickbacks has resulted in
its virtual shut down and orders were placed for import of carriages.
 Although Moghalpura has facility to produce High Capacity (HC)
wagons, the same were imported from China.
 These imported wagons have the handicap that they cannot ply on
branch lines because of axle load limitations.

17. Contd…
 Pakistan Railways had compatible locomotives from GE, Hitachi
and other companies – all with different axle loads but compatible
with the railway tracks.
 Main line tracks have the capability of handling a load of 22 tons
per axle, while branch lines can sustain 16.5 tons per axle.
 Out of 522 total engines only 220 are in working order, out of
which 100 are in poor condition

18. Government Role
 Former president Pervez Musharraf appointed General Javed
Ashraf the railway minster, General Saeed the chairman and
General Hamid Butt the general manager of manufacturing and
services, all of whom had no prior experience in railways.
 Pakistan Railways has been treated as an orphan institution
throughout the years.
 They imported from China ‘Group 1’ locomotives with axle load
of 23 Tons per axle, although the limitation was 22 tons per axle.

19. Contd…
 Similarly, orders were placed for ‘Group 3’ locomotives with
loads of 19.3 tons – while the limitation was 17.5 tons per axle.
 Rulers were building road networks and motorways in the name
of development, whereas, no one thought about upgrading and
maintaining the railways network.
 When the motorway’s cost was estimated at Rs 24 billion,
Pakistan Railways came up with a proposal of upgrading its
entire network in Rs.10 billion.

20. Revenue vs Expenditure
 The major losses faced by the Pakistan Railways today are a
direct result of decreasing revenues with increased expenditures.
 The expenditure recently crossed Rs.53 billion in one year out of
which Rs.20 billion were allocated for salaries and pensions.
 The revenues are dwindling to about Rs.23 billion per year.
 Revenue share for freight trains has declined from 40 percent to
25 percent as a direct result of neglecting this cheap mode of
transportation

21. Disasters
 Nature has not been too kind to
Pakistan Railways either.
 According to the National Disaster Management Authority, the
recent floods have caused a loss of Rs.6.7 billion to the railway
network as several hundred kilometres of lines were washed
away.
 The railway coaches were also the targets of angry mobs and
arson attacks after Benazir Bhutto’s assassination resulting in
huge losses.

22. Condition Of Employees
 Pakistan Railways has about 90,000 employees consisting of staff
and officers as of 2008. which is more than required.
 Employees are taking salaries without working and sitting idle at
home.
 More than Rs.20 billion is allocated for salaries and pensions
 Employees have very strong unions so it is difficult for
Government to fired them

23. Finance ministry refusal
 Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani approved Rs. 11.5 billion as a
bailout package for Pakistan Railways.
 Rs5 billion was to be paid by the federal government as cost for
rehabilitation projects
 The finance ministry refused to grant Rs5 billion saying it could
not provide further subsidies to Pakistan Railways seeing as it is
already suffering huge losses .

24. Privatization Of Railway
 The Finance Division of GoP has proposed the privatization of
Pakistan Railway due to the increasing budget deficit and poor
performance of Pakistan Railways since last many years
 I as a citizen of Pakistan think that privatization of Pakistan
railway is good for railway

25. Contd…
 With Privatization more vistas and job opportunities will be
created
 With more investments in the infra-structure of this institution
major up gradation will be possible such as electric trains, new
tracks & conditions overall will be improved
 Merit will be observed in HR induction & job vaccancies

26. Contd…
If Pakistan Railway is privatized
 The transport of mango people will be reinstated. Pakistan Railways
will not be burden over Budget anymore.
 Proper check and balance will be observed and corruption will be
controlled.
 Pakistan Railways will not be dependent upon Govt.
 Pakistan Railways will not have short-comings for salaries

27. Contd…
 Pakistan Railways will be able to go under complete up gradation
and installation of new routes….

28. Survey
 According to Gilani research foundation, 42 % of all
Pakistanis support the privatization of Pakistan
railway.
 whereas 35 % are against it who believed that
privatization of Pakistan Railway is not a good idea
and the rest of the 23 % gave no response.
 Surprisingly, findings of the survey reveal no
significant difference in opinion of people from
across different demographics.

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30. QUESTIONS
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