The Department of Civil Engineering of Pakistan Railways, in a precise moved to the Ministry of Railways, has demanded big provide of cash for the recuperation of infrastructure broken with the aid of using huge torrential rains and floods.
The Civil Engineering Department required approximately Rs fifty three billion to repair the alerts device, as many as Rs 60 billion to repair the partial harm suffered with the aid of using 33 Railway Stations in Lahore, Karachi, Multan, Sukkur, Peshawar, Rawalpindi and Quetta divisions and over Rs 6 billion to make the communique tower and different device useful again, reasserts with inside the Pakistan Railways instructed APP.
They stated the alerts device had additionally suffered huge destruction in Lahore, Karachi, Multan and Sukkur divisions because of sudden rains and flood in maximum elements of the country.
The reasserts stated for the repairing of the drainage device at forty one railway yards and their recuperation, an estimate of Rs 2.23 billion became made, including that 3,187 KMs tune of Main Line-I, II and III became absolutely destroyed.
Likewise, they stated 1,446 railway bridges and culverts have been broken out of which railway bridges have been absolutely destroyed in Quetta department at the same time as one of the bridges in Sukkur and Karachi divisions have been additionally washed away.
The Railways authentic knowledgeable that a complete of 1,181 railway bridges have been broken and a sum of Rs 433 billion became predicted for his or her recuperation and the development of 259 new ones.
Regarding the tracks, they stated that because of the floods, 109.four KMs of tracks in Chaman, Mirpurkhas, Khokhrapar, Hyderabad, Quetta and Sialkot sections have been absolutely destroyed. A stretch of 68.123 KMs of tracks became in part broken on this phase, they added.
To restore the harm and for protection with inside the future, they stated an quantity of Rs 17 billion might ought to be spent in this phase at the side of the development of seventy nine new bridges.
They stated that the technical and non-technical body of workers of Pakistan Railways, with the assist of neighborhood management and the Frontier Works Organization (FWO), became running day and night time to repair the teach provider throughout the country.