Govt prepares to acquire initial metro train
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LAHORE : The supervision of Punjab has motionless to applaud a attainment of Pakistan’s initial metro sight by hosting a rite during a Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) repository in Dera Gujjran on Oct 7.
The sight has now reached Karachi and after etiquette clearway and other formalities, it is approaching to strech Lahore during subsequent week. Punjab Chief Minister’s Advisor and OLMT Steering Committee Chairman Khawaja Ahmad Hassaan says that it is a really unapproachable transformation for Pakistan, generally for a province, that a nation is going to join a joining of natiions where an fit mass movement complement is accessible for citizens.
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After a attainment of a initial sight in Pakistan, Chinese contractors have also released report for dispatching a remaining 26 trains, he adds. While vocalization in a project’s weekly swell examination meeting, Hassaan says that as per a concluded schedule, rolling batch for remaining trains would strech Pakistan by end-2017.
These trains would be parked during repository area in Dera Gujjran where construction of sight sheds is underway. Fifteen marks are also laid in a parking areas on that Chinese engineers are completing electrical and automatic works, he highlights. A group of Chinese engineers is already here to safeguard protected handling, travel and parking of a initial train, he adds.
Meeting participants were sensitive that 4 kilometres of rail lane has been laid between Dera Gujjran and Shalimar Gardens. Chinese engineers have also started electrical and automatic works during 24 metro stations out of a sum 26. Escalators have also been commissioned during initial a 5 stations, including Dera Gujjran, Islam Park, Salamatpura, Mahmood Booti and Pakistan Mint, while designation of electric escalators is underway during remaining stations.
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Meeting participants were told that a sum 74.5% of polite works of a metro sight has been finished so far. Progress on package-I (from Dera Gujjran, GT Road to Chouburji) is 86.2%. On package-II (from Choburji to Ali Town), a swell is 53.5% and 79.3% during a repository nearby Dera Gujran. Finally, Stabling Yard nearby Ali Town is 75.3% complete. An altogether 18% of a electrical and automatic work of a plan has also been completed.
OLMT cabinet authority says growth works of a metro sight are being finished on a fast-track basis.
Published in The Express Tribune, Sep 21st, 2017.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1511864/govt-prepares-welcome-first-metro-train/