ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways would install CCTV cameras, walkthrough gates and scanner at major railway terminals to improve safety standards.
Talking to APP an official of Pakistan Railway said, "The government was making all-out efforts to improve law and order, the CCTV cameras will help railway security personnel in monitoring the movements of suspicious people, especially terrorists,”
The cameras would be connected to a computer room at the railway station that would also help the authorities take action against violators of the ban on smoking.
To a question, he said, all reliable locomotives are being sued only for passenger operations in order to improve punctuality and performance.
The freight operations service has been restarted with more dedication and it will be stepped up with induction of additional locomotives after repairs, he said, adding, "Emergency plan to repair defective locomotive is in place and work is being executed on war footing."
The government has allocated an amount of Rs23 billion in budgets 2012-13 for rehabilitation and upgrading infrastructure and acquisition of rolling stock in order to improve service delivery for the convenience of the travelling public.
Punctuality of the intercity passenger service between Rawalpindi-Lahore and Lahore-Faisalabad trains is monitored regularly to ensure passenger convenience, he said.
"Around 2,150 acres of railways land worth more than Rs2 billion under illegal encroachment has been got vacated from illegal occupants," he maintained.
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