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Lahore: Pakistan Railways has produced wagons of international standard for goods vehicles locally, now the goods vehicle will also be able to run at a speed of 100 km per hour.
CEO Railway inaugurated wagons at Lahore Cantt Railway Station, 40 high capacity wagons were added to the railway fleet.
Wagons with modern design will also be able to move containers from one place to another. The wagons made with Chinese technology have a capacity of 70 tons of load.
By the end of FY 2025-26, 820 such coaches will be inducted into the railway system, saving foreign exchange reserves by manufacturing wagons locally. Wagons will increase the income by more than 9 billion rupees every year.
Local manufacturing of wagons is a major step towards self-reliance: CEO Railways Aamir Balu
On this occasion, CEO Railway Aamir Ali Baloch said that this freight train was made completely in our workshop, we have added 140 vehicles to the freight and are going to make about 820 freight trains, freight trains 8 to 10. She takes out her expenses in a month.
He said that we will collect more than 85 billion rupees in revenue and only from freight we have been able to collect 35 billion rupees.
CEO Railways said that the approval for the ML1 project has been approved, and it has been agreed in China that the resumption of work on strategic projects will begin quickly. The pension issue is being reviewed again, we have to run the railways from our own expenses, so we will complete the work on the pension policy soon.
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