PAKISTAN RAILWAY

INTRODUCTION
Pakistan Railways is a Federal Government

Department under Ministry of Railways. Pakistan Railways provides an important mode of Transportation in the farthest corners of the country and brings them closer for Business, sight seeing, and education.

INTRODUCTION
Government owned organization. Dependent entirely on government for

financial support.

HISTORY
The possibility of Karachi as a sea port was

first noticed in the middle of 19th century. Sir Henry Edward Frere was appointed Commissioner of Sindh in 1847 . It was on 13 May 1861, that the first railway line was opened for public traffic between Karachi City and Kotri, a distance of 105 miles (169 km).

HISTORY
At the time of independence, 1,947 miles

(3,133 km) route of North Western Railways were transferred to India, leaving 5,048 route miles (8,122 km) to Pakistan. At present Pakistan Railway comprises of 8,163 route km, 1,212 stations and 42 train halts. It has a fleet of 546 diesel electric locomotives, 25,815 wagons and 2,099 passenger coaches.

AREA`S FOR IMPROVEMENT

Shortage of Locomotives Decreasing Market Share Huge Losses and Budget Deficit Mismanagement Corruption Accidents Political intervention Weak ticket checks Inconvenience of passengers

Shortage of Locomotives
The Pakistan Railways has a total of 546

locomotives but only 290 are on track while the rest are out of order. Similarly, 70 per cent carriages are out of service. In a report submitted to Railway Ministry, it has been disclosed that as many as 70 locomotives are awaiting spares at Pakistan Locomotive Factory, Risalpur.

Decreasing Market Share

Railway sector in Pakistan has not

maintained its position in the transport sector. The market share of Pakistan Railways kept on declining with the passage of time. For example, annual passenger volume carried by Pakistan Railways in late 1970s was approx. 145 million, which has come down to 59 million in 2010/2011.

Decreasing Market Share

The freight business was of PR was 15 million

tons in late 1960s but has come down to 7 million tons. Roads have steadily become the more preferred form of transportation. An example of PRs declining market share is that it is moving only 11% of total petroleum products.

Huge Losses and Budget Deficit

The reason for Huge Losses and Budget

Deficit is the presence of unnecessary departments which are white elephant for Pakistan Railways. Today Pakistan Railways with Rs.334 billion liabilities is at the edge of bankruptcy because of corruption, shortage of locomotives and losses incurred due to the running expenses.

Huge Losses and Budget Deficit

According to one report Rs 21 billion is spent

on wages and pensions every month leaving the department less or nothing for maintenance of power.

Accidents
The accidents on the railway track rises as time passes. For example, Ghotki train crash In its travelling in the opposite direction hit several of the derailed carriages worst accident in recent years, three passenger trains collided on 13 July

2005, derailing 13 carriages and leaving at least 120 dead. The Karachi Express ran into the back of the Quetta Express while it was stopped at a station near Ghotki, and the Tezgam Express. According to officials, the conductor of the Karachi Express misread a signal.

Mismanagement
Currently Pakistan Railways is facing acute

shortage of locomotives and spare parts for maintenance of out of service locomotives. As per the reports compiled by the design team, Pakistan Railways need 40 50 locomotives annually to run its operations effectively. However, during the past two decades only 100 locomotives have been added.

Mismanagement
The management of PR has failed to

generate revenues through use of assets like land, locomotive factory, carriage factory etc.

Inconvenience of passengers
Train is always overloaded with the bundle

of people and Customer feel very difficult to take their seats

Cleanliness problems

Passenger get very tied due to

uncomfortable seats

Political intervention
Political intervention leads to hire inefficient

and irrelevant people for related job Weak ticket checks There is no proper system for ticket checks which cause loss.

Corruption
Corruption is the biggest problem Pakistan

Railways is facing today. The Railway Department has been suffering losses since years long. Contractor system is one of the causes of such losses. Contractor system is one of the causes of such losses. Moreover, there are enormous irregularities in local purchases.

Corruption
The number of officers cadre has increased considerably since 1977, mostly due to political

appointments. . It has been revealed that the crises are self generated creating a space for more corruption and PRACS-Pakistan Railways Advisory Commute Services is responsible for this mess. In short Pakistan Railways is a classic example of bad governance, poor policies, corruption and mismanagement.

How to improve these areas

First of all government should eradicate corruption in railways sector. Corruption is the

menace that is destroying many sectors of Pakistani society. Pakistan Railways should be privatized. This is also the possible solution of problem because currently government of Pakistan has to bear the huge losses monthly. Other benefits of privatization of Pakistan Railways include the increase in service quality and expansion of Railways because government has nothing to invest in PR.

How to improve these areas

High security system Clean environment. Corruption must be remove Pakistan Railway should launch some comfortable trains. Better services in economy class. Quality of railway track. Schedule.

How to improve these areas

India is also making impressive strides in the

railway sector. The underground system in Delhi has won the admiration of many foreign experts for its engineering as well as management. Pakistan being a neighbor of these two rapidly growing and giant economies could benefit enormously from the development of the two systems.

How to improve these areas

Pakistan is blessed with coal reserves and a single

Thar coal reserve of Sindh is about 850 Trillion Cubic feet which is more than oil reserves of KSA and Iran put together i.e. 375 billion barrels. Chinese and other companies had not only carried out surveys and feasibilities of this project but also offered 100 percent investment in last 7 to 8 years but the Petroleum Gang always discouraged them in a very systematic way. If these reserves are exploited properly then the deficiency of fuel can be catered for the railways.

How to improve these areas

Pakistan Railways should be privatized. This

is also the possible solution of problem because currently government of Pakistan has to bear the huge losses monthly.

CONCLUSION
The political interference poor maintenance

of track locomotives couches bridges and mismanagement in almost every field are the major causes of failure of Pakistan railways. Locomotives purchased from china had been broken down may be mentioned here that normally a locomotive consists of six traction motor while the Pakistan Railway is operating them with only three or four motors.

CONCLUSION
This is the major cause of mid-way of

breakdown of trains.