\nISLAMABAD : Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Friday announced to introduce a modern tracking system in his department that will help reduce journey between Lahore and Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n
Speaking to media persons after inaugurating a plant nursery at Margalla Railway Station Islamabad, the minister claimed to bring a definite change in the Railways department until December.<\/p>\n
Railways will soon be developed as a modern technical organisation offering facilities to everyone, he added.<\/p>\n
The Minister asserted that passenger trains will be plied on branch lines of Railways as well.<\/p>\n
Sheikh Rashid Ahmed maintained that Railways will have a key role in success of CPEC and full cooperation will be sought from China to improve condition of the department.<\/p>\n
He said Chinese authorities would be proposed to plant trees across the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) route in collaboration with the indigenous authorities to make it eco-friendly.<\/p>\n
In Margalla nursery, initially 25000 seeds have been sowed, which will grow into healthy plants till next monsoon season. Later on these floras will be planted at various stations.<\/p>\n
Apart from it 3000 saplings were already present at Margalla while this nursery would generate one lac plants annually. These would later be planted at various stations and installations.<\/p>\n
Pakistan Railways (PR) is having the vision of \u201cGreen Pakistan \u2013Green Railway\u201d whereas it will be self-sufficient by next year in generating its own saplings and trees.<\/p>\n
The minister claimed that at present 25 nurseries have been developed besides four each that would be set up at PR\u2019s divisional headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD : Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Friday announced to introduce a modern tracking system in his department that will help reduce journey between Lahore and Rawalpindi. Speaking to media persons after inaugurating a plant nursery at Margalla Railway Station Islamabad, the minister claimed to bring a definite change in the Railways department until […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"\n