KARACHI: Prime Minister Imran Khan while performing the ground-breaking of Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) project, at a ceremony held on Monday (27th of September, 2021) here at Cantt Railway Station.
Calling KCR a revolutionary project, the Prime Minister said that it would ameliorate the transportation problems faced by the karachiites for decades. He reiterated that the Metropolis was the economic hub of Pakistan and held that both Federal and Sindh governments would have to jointly endeavor to resolve the decades-old problems of the Port City: “The CM-Sindh is sitting here. I would urge him to reconsider the Bundle Island proposal as it would provide jobs and additional revenue to Sindh while removing the additional burden from Karachi.”
Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umer said Green Line service would be formally operational in November 2021, which would be inaugurated by the Prime Minister. According to Asad Umar the K-4 bulk water supply project was scheduled to start supplying water to Karachi in October 2023, but he desired its completion before 14th of August, 2023. Asad Umar informed that the work on another mega project of Freight Corridor would start soon; feasibility was ready and a proposal for it had also been received from a Chinese company. He said though innovations Pakistan could do a lot in different sectors despite limited resources.
Asad Umar said in addition to many development projects launched or to be initiated for Karachi by the federal government, the work on development projects in other 14 priority districts of Sindh province were on full swing. The ceremony was also attended by Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry, Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umer, Federal Minister for Railways Azam Khan Sawati, Federal Minister for Information Technology Amen-ul-Haq, Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Zaidi, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s members of National Assembly and MPAs from Karachi besides a large number of the party office bearers.
On this occasion, Federal Minister for Railways Azam Khan Sawati said that KCR was a public-private partnership project with estimated completion period of 18 to 24 months. It would be a state-of-the-art project having all modern facilities including fast electric trains. In order to facilitate the citoyens of the Port City and eliminate the traffic jams, KCR is being modernized and expanded: 30 stations are supposed to link various commercial and residential quarters of the Metropolis. Interestingly, there will be no crossings and thus the trains (harboring eight hundred and fourteen voyagers) would be able to attain a speed of eighty kilometres per hour.
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