KARACHI: The Sindh government aims to ask the federal government to get complete control of the Karachi Circular Railway project so that it could remove complications quickly for the completion of the project, the Sindh Assembly was told.
The information was provided by Sindh Transport Minister Mumtaz Jakhrani while responding to a short notice question asked during the question hour by Muttahida Qaumi Movement legislator Mohammad Hussain, who wanted to know about the update, any delaying tactics used by the federal government in the project, and reported backing out of the donor Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) from the KCR project.
The minister said the KCR started in 1964 and was shut down in 1999. JICA showed interest in its revival in 2005. A project was developed in which the federal and Sindh governments were among its partners. He said that while the Sindh government was trying to expedite the process, things did not move as fast in the federal government. He said of the KCR’s 43-kilometre-long track, an 8km patch was under encroachment. The encroachers were being given relocation compensation. A few encroachers had filed a case in the Sindh High Court against the government and JICA, owing to which the donor which did not like the slow progress on it and backed out of the project.
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