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Train tracking system to improve travel experience

February 9, 2019

LAHORE: People who frequently commute by trains won’t have to wait at the stations for hours as the Pakistan Railways has completed the installation of a tracker system which will be inaugurated on February 12. The developer of the system donated it free of cost to PR.

The tracker systems were installed in train engines across the country in order to update their systems. Through the GPRS tracker system, passengers will be able to get information about their train’s timings on their mobile phones before they reach the railway station.

The passenger will receive all the information, including the train’s timings, in the Urdu and English languages. They will also get information during travel on engine failures and replacements. Passengers, governmental and nongovernmental employees and students, who travel on a daily basis by train, will be able to take advantage of the tracking system.

The tracker has been installed in all trains that go to Karachi, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Multan, Sargodha and Kasur. According to the source, the speed of the train and record of the last two weeks can also be obtained through the software.

In this regard, the tracking system would also be linked to the Lahore Central Control Room Office. The staff will also be able to monitor the position of trains through TV screens.

According to the Railways mechanical department staff members, the tracker system will start working immediately after locomotive engines start. Moreover, through a specific mobile application, passengers can find out the location of any train. The passenger will have to type their train number to get information about the arrival time.

Muhammad Mudassir, who runs a software company, has introduced the tracker system. “My father is a former employee of the Pakistan Railways. We grew up travelling by trains. Many times we waited for hours for trains which were delayed without any information being given to the passengers.

I came up with the idea to work on the tracker system when my family and I faced problems like thousands of other commuters,” he said. The system will ring a bell if the train will be 30 minutes away from the station.

“I could sell this system for Rs 80 million, but I gave it to Pakistan Railways free of charge,” claims Mudassir.

Railways Chairman Dr Raja Jalal Sultan Sikander said the installation of the tracker system will also reduce the rush of people at train stations. “Most importantly, people will save their time by reaching the station a few minutes before the arrival of the train.”

Pakistan Railways Additional General Manager Mohammad Ejaz Abro said that the tracker system will also inform the administration just as the train leaves the engine shed and just as it departs from the station. Moreover, after getting information through the tracker system, an alternate engine will immediately be moved in case of a failure.
 
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Govt Starts Campaign to Plant 10 Billion Trees Along Highways

Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Climate Change have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the plantation of ten billion trees along the national highways and motorways.

The MoU has been signed to execute the project called “Apni Shahrah’ in which trees will be planted alongside the Motorways and National Highways.

Minister for Communications and Postal Service Murad Saeed and State Minister for Climate Change gave their addresses in the MoU-signing ceremony.

While addressing the ceremony, Saeed said that a campaign by the Climate Change ministry is underway for planting trees in schools and colleges.

Project ‘Apni Shahrah’ is part of the government’s countrywide plantation drive ‘Clean and Green Pakistan’. The project is about engaging the sponsors and donors from Civil Society Business Community and private entities for plantation and maintenance of trees in Right of Way of National Highways & Motorways.

Federal Secretary for Communications Shoaib Ahmad Siddiqui, Federal Secretary Climate Change Hasan Nisar Jami, Chairman National Highway Authority Jawwad Rafique Malik, and Senior Officers of both the ministries were also present at the ceremony.


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Saudi Arabian investment in Pakistan

...$11 billion refinery at Gwadar

1. Installation of two regasified Liquefied Petroleum Gas (RLNG) plants with an estimated cost of $4 billion

2. $10 billion oil refinery

3. $1 billion petrochemical complex

4. $2 billion investment in mineral development sector

5. Pakistan’s annual oil consumption is around 26 million tons

6. Out of which 13.5 MT was met through local production of eight existing oil refineries

7. Petrochemical complex would develop POL by-product at the Gwadar city an ultimate destination of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)

8. The new refinery would have the capacity to filter 200,000 to 300,000 barrels per day

9. 50 percent crude oil is imported to meet energy needs

10. Mega oil city to be constructed on around 80,000 acres land with the purpose to refine and store imported oil for onward transportation to China using the CPEC route, besides developing fuel supply chain for landlocked Central Asian states

11. Fuel transportation to China via Pakistan would take just 7 days presently oil vessels take 40 days to reach Western China
 

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