This project will keep on delaying and delaying ......... as the project for the benefit of general public doesn't have much interests of our rich government.
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ISLAMABAD: The $1.5 billion Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) project, approved by the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council, has hit snags because of the land transfer issue between federal and Sindh provincial governments.
Informed sources told Dawn that project donor Japan International Cooperation Agency had made it mandatory to complete the resettlement action plan, including identification and finalisation of the land needed to settle people to be affected by the project, before the agreement was sealed.
The transfer of the land title by Pakistan Railways to the Karachi Urban Transport Corporation is required to complete the resettlement action plan study.
It will include allocation and transfer of 357.5 acres of land at Jumma Goth for resettlement of the affected people, transfer of the land along the loop and the land along the main line from the Karachi City railway station to Drigh Road station.
The work on the project was expected to start during the current year and complete in three years, but differences over the transfer of railways’ land have delayed it.
The sources said that the Sindh government had ‘occupied’ several hundred acres of the railways department’s land, but it needs more to launch the project. The PR authorities are working on the issue and the federal minister for railways has held a meeting with the chief minister of Sindh recently to sort out the matter.
The sources said that work on the circular railway project could not be started until the land transfer issue was resolved.
Informed sources told Dawn that project donor Japan International Cooperation Agency had made it mandatory to complete the resettlement action plan, including identification and finalisation of the land needed to settle people to be affected by the project, before the agreement was sealed.
The transfer of the land title by Pakistan Railways to the Karachi Urban Transport Corporation is required to complete the resettlement action plan study.
It will include allocation and transfer of 357.5 acres of land at Jumma Goth for resettlement of the affected people, transfer of the land along the loop and the land along the main line from the Karachi City railway station to Drigh Road station.
The work on the project was expected to start during the current year and complete in three years, but differences over the transfer of railways’ land have delayed it.
The sources said that the Sindh government had ‘occupied’ several hundred acres of the railways department’s land, but it needs more to launch the project. The PR authorities are working on the issue and the federal minister for railways has held a meeting with the chief minister of Sindh recently to sort out the matter.
The sources said that work on the circular railway project could not be started until the land transfer issue was resolved.
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Personally I don't think that either Pakistan Railways or Sindh Government is serious about revival of Karachi Circular Railway (KCR). The major issue of land for resettlement of project affected people is yet to be solved and it is a major mandatory requirement of sponsor company JICA. Board of Revenue & Malir Development Authority, both are unwilling to solve this land issue.
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Yes, u r very right ..... This nation is lazy and lethargic ........ always wants that some Ginne should come and do the job .... they should just sit in the chairs and get money ......... ironic ... this is the fate of all project of general public interests
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