AGL 38.55 Decreased By ▼ -1.03 (-2.6%)
AIRLINK 128.31 Decreased By ▼ -2.91 (-2.22%)
BOP 7.02 Increased By ▲ 0.21 (3.08%)
CNERGY 4.56 Decreased By ▼ -0.15 (-3.18%)
DCL 8.20 Decreased By ▼ -0.24 (-2.84%)
DFML 39.75 Decreased By ▼ -1.72 (-4.15%)
DGKC 79.40 Decreased By ▼ -2.69 (-3.28%)
FCCL 31.89 Decreased By ▼ -1.21 (-3.66%)
FFBL 71.49 Decreased By ▼ -1.38 (-1.89%)
FFL 12.29 Increased By ▲ 0.03 (0.24%)
HUBC 108.84 Decreased By ▼ -1.90 (-1.72%)
HUMNL 13.65 Decreased By ▼ -0.86 (-5.93%)
KEL 4.95 Decreased By ▼ -0.24 (-4.62%)
KOSM 7.55 Decreased By ▼ -0.06 (-0.79%)
MLCF 37.56 Decreased By ▼ -1.34 (-3.44%)
NBP 68.00 Increased By ▲ 3.99 (6.23%)
OGDC 188.20 Decreased By ▼ -4.62 (-2.4%)
PAEL 24.93 Decreased By ▼ -0.75 (-2.92%)
PIBTL 7.30 Decreased By ▼ -0.04 (-0.54%)
PPL 148.50 Decreased By ▼ -5.57 (-3.62%)
PRL 24.76 Decreased By ▼ -1.07 (-4.14%)
PTC 17.00 Decreased By ▼ -0.81 (-4.55%)
SEARL 79.80 Decreased By ▼ -2.50 (-3.04%)
TELE 7.44 Decreased By ▼ -0.32 (-4.12%)
TOMCL 32.70 Decreased By ▼ -0.76 (-2.27%)
TPLP 8.24 Decreased By ▼ -0.25 (-2.94%)
TREET 16.75 Increased By ▲ 0.13 (0.78%)
TRG 56.59 Decreased By ▼ -0.81 (-1.41%)
UNITY 28.09 Increased By ▲ 0.58 (2.11%)
WTL 1.32 Decreased By ▼ -0.05 (-3.65%)
BR100 10,378 Decreased By -126.9 (-1.21%)
BR30 30,539 Decreased By -687.3 (-2.2%)
KSE100 97,125 Decreased By -954.3 (-0.97%)
KSE30 30,277 Decreased By -281.5 (-0.92%)

Federal Minister for Railways Ghaus Baksh Mehr has said that Pakistan Railways (PR) which is providing travelling facilities to more than 70 million people annually, is upgrading its systems to enhance its passenger handling capacity by starting new trains, computerising its reservation system and providing online reservation facility to travelling public.
According to a Railways spokesman, the minister while talking to senior railway officials said that the organisation is spending billions of rupees on upgrading the facilities for its passengers.
He added that already railways is operating with latest coaches, imported from China and is using them on Kakorakaram Express, Jaffer Express, Faisalabad Express and Sialkot Express.
Already the reservation system at Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Hyderabad, Karachi City and Quetta have been computerised while work is underway to upgrade the reservation systems at Karachi Cantt., Sukkur, Rohri, Multan and Sialkot.
He said Railways is also working on the project of issuing computerised tickets and soon the passengers would have this facility at all the major trains.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2004

Comments

Comments are closed.