Public welfare: Recommendations for KCR project finalised
Finance secretary Suhail Rajput assured the media of early completion of the project.
The height of the KCR station platforms will be equal to the level of a train platform so that children, elderly and handicapped people face no difficulty in entering the train. PHOTO: KUTCKCR.COM
KARACHI:
The committee formed to address the proposed Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) has drafted its recommendations in its third and final meeting on Friday, which is before the deadline of May 20, according a press release issued by the commissioner office.
While speaking to the media after the meeting, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Administrator Rauf Akhtar Farooqui said that the report, that covers all aspects of the project, has been finalised four days before the deadline so that government can implement the project as soon as possible.
Karachi Urban Transport Corporation managing director Shamim Shirazi said that Japan International Cooperation Agency surveyed the project in 2009, 2013 and in the month of May this year to remove all hurdles and encroachments along the proposed route. He added that recommendations have been added in the report about clearing the route. Finance secretary Suhail Rajput also assured the media of early completion of the project.
According to Commissioner Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, the height of the KCR station platforms will be equal to the level of a train platform so that children, elderly and handicapped people face no difficulty in entering the train.
The KCR will run on electric system that will enable around 600,000 commuters to travel daily on trains leaving every five minutes, he said. Moreover, he stated that both the federal and provincial governments have the completion of the project as their top priority.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 18th, 2014.
The committee formed to address the proposed Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) has drafted its recommendations in its third and final meeting on Friday, which is before the deadline of May 20, according a press release issued by the commissioner office.
While speaking to the media after the meeting, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Administrator Rauf Akhtar Farooqui said that the report, that covers all aspects of the project, has been finalised four days before the deadline so that government can implement the project as soon as possible.
Karachi Urban Transport Corporation managing director Shamim Shirazi said that Japan International Cooperation Agency surveyed the project in 2009, 2013 and in the month of May this year to remove all hurdles and encroachments along the proposed route. He added that recommendations have been added in the report about clearing the route. Finance secretary Suhail Rajput also assured the media of early completion of the project.
According to Commissioner Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, the height of the KCR station platforms will be equal to the level of a train platform so that children, elderly and handicapped people face no difficulty in entering the train.
The KCR will run on electric system that will enable around 600,000 commuters to travel daily on trains leaving every five minutes, he said. Moreover, he stated that both the federal and provincial governments have the completion of the project as their top priority.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 18th, 2014.