Railways planning to utilize 10913 acres its land for executing various projects

ISLAMABAD, Apr 26 (APP):Pakistan Railways is planning to utilize 10913 acres barren land across the country by executing various projects to earn more revenue for the department.
“Pakistan Railways has 8424 acres barren land in Punjab, 1346 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 263 in Sindh and 880 in Balochistan,” sources in the Ministry of Railways told APP.
Giving detail, they said the department owned 1,67,690 acres land all over the country, out of which 90326 had in Punjab, 39428 in Sindh, 28228 in Balochistan and 9708 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
They said that Pakistan Railways had leased out 15172 acres land for various purposes across the country and 3330 acres land was under encroachments of different government departments and individual.
The sources said Pakistan Railways was using 1086 acres land for Railway Housing Societies in four provinces and 806 acres land is under the utilization of regular and non-regular Katchi Abadies.
“Pakistan Railways has reserved 12,808 acres land in four provinces for future operational use including 4364 acres in Punjab, 1800 acres in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 900 acres in Sindh and 5744 acres in Balochistan,” they added.
To a question, they said the present government, Pakistan Railways had leased out 6496 acres railway land across the country to different departments and private persons to generate extra revenue.
“The land was leased and licensed out for various purposes including premium shops, stacking, agricultural and parking stands etc,” they added.
They said that it was worth pointing out that Pakistan Railway earned revenue of Rs 4653.917 million as compared to
Rs 1578.136 million in previous three- year.
Giving province wise breakup, they said that Pakistan Railways had leased out 5,132 acres in Punjab, 833 in Sindh, 470 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 59 acres in Balochistan.