Mrs. Parveen Agha, Chairperson, Ministry of Railways
chaired the meeting with IMF Post Program monitoring Mission on Tuesday in
Ministry of Railways. Ms. Teresa Daban Sanhez, Senior Economist, IMF, was
briefed about performance of Pakistan Railways (PR). The main rationale of the
meeting was to estimate that PR shall be given priority in Pakistan’s Economy.
She was briefed that current government has improved the Pakistan Railways by
focusing on business development, increasing the rolling stock, infrastructure
development and improving the governance of PR. In last 4 years, the number of
passengers has been improved to 55%, freight to 31 % and other activities to
14%.PR is looking forward to unambiguous separation of policy functions and
operational functions of PR. Ministry of Railways represents policy functions
and PR Head Quarter represents operational functions. It will also be run as a
commercial enterprise to maximize the profits. The role of PR in CPEC was also
discussed.
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