PROBLEMS OF PAKISTAN RAILWAY

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COURT CASES
PR is currently facing 2954 court cases for which PR had paid 28 million RS to its
lawyers in five year. The cases pertain to land, property, civil and other miscellaneous
matter. The distribution of these court cases are as follows
NUMBER OF CASES PLACE IN WHICH THEY ARE
FACED
24 Supreme court
121 High court
1032 Federal service tribunal, Labor and
payment of wages court
1625 Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Multan Sukkur and
division
90 Railway work shop
LAND PROLEM
4,231 ACRES of PR land occupied by various government departments, institutions,
individual and land gamblers.
LAND (ACRES) OCCUPIED BY
1159 Government
3072 Individuals
396 Peshawar division
103 Rawalpindi division
2420 Lahore division
237 Multan division
260 Sukkur division
Allotment of PR land to palm golf club and country club also suffered him from a loss of
25 million RS
CORRUPTION
Pakistan railway is facing a serious economic crisis which has forced the organization to
defer long overdue maintenance of its ageing asset.
BURDEN OF DEBT
Pakistan railway debt piles up to 56 billion RS. High oil prices and dollar parity along
with salary and pension obligation are playing havoc with its finance
ACCIDENTIAL PROPBLEM
LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY
FUTURE PLANS