Green Line BRT to start operations on Oct 10 this year
July 17, 2021
KARACHI: Presiding over a meeting of the Provincial Coordination & Implementation Committee (PCIC), Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Friday decided to allot 47 plots to affected residents of an anti-encroachment drive in District Central of the city and directed the provincial transport department to complete the Orange Line Bus Rapid Transit Service (BRT) by August.
He also issued directives to expedite work on the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR).
The meeting was held at the CM House and attended by provincial ministers Nasir Hussain Shah and Awais Qadir Shah, Law Adviser Murtaza Wahab, Corps Commander Karachi Lt General Nadeem Anjum, Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, GOC Malir Maj Gen Omer Maqbool, Planning and Development Board Chairperson Shireen Narejo, Principal Secretary to the CM Sajid Jamal Abro, Karachi Commissioner Naveed Shaikh, Additional Planning Secretary Aziz Uqaili, Transport Secretary Sh
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In February last year, the SC had directed the Pakistan Railways to revive and operate the KCR within six months. White Star/File
KARACHI: The Supreme Court directed the Sindh government to complete the PC-I, contract signing and issuance of work order for the construction of underpasses and overhead bridges on railway crossings falling along the proposed route of Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) within a month.
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed in its order issued on Thursday further told the provincial government that all requisite financial resources be made available to the Frontier Works Organisation, tasked to execute the project, so that it could be completed as expeditiously as possible.