ISLAMABAD: Decision of Pakistan Railways to reduce fares of trains has increased number of passengers and succeeded to generate more revenue.
An official of PR said that after the announcement of cut in fare, the number of passengers using trains has gone up by 10 per cent just within three days.
Railways on July 27 had announced 57 per cent reduction in fares of railways in order to draw more passengers which had fallen badly in the past.
To a question, he said PR had decided to enforce six-day working week to improve overall functioning of the department.
He said two weekly offs were hampering rapid resuscitation process of railways and repairing of locomotives, rolling stock and railway track had slowed down.
To a question, he said PR would run four special Eid trains to facilitate the masses.
The first Eid train will operate between Karachi and Peshawar via Multan, Sahiwal and Raiwind and this train will leave Karachi at 11 a.m on August 6 and will arrive at Peshawar Cantt at 9:30 the next day.
Second train will leave Karachi for Lahore via Multan and Faisalabad at 11 a.m on August 7 and it will reach its destination at 11:50 a.m next day.
Third Eid special has been scheduled from Quetta for Rawalpindi via Multan and Lahore and it will leave Quetta at 12 noon on August 6 and will reach its destination at 8 p.m on August 7.
The fourth Eid special train will be operated between Peshawar and Lahore on August 8 which will leave Peshawar at 12 noon and arrive at Lahore at 9:10 p.m on the same day.
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