Pakistan railways provides an important mode of transportation in the farthest corners of country and bring them closer for business,sight seeing,pilgrimage and education.it has been a great integrating force and form the life line of the country by catering to its needs for large scale movement of people and freight.

1. IN THE NAME OF
ALLAH THE MOST
GRACIOUS AND THE
MOST MERCIFUL

2. PAKISTAN RAILWAYS

3. GROUP MEMBERS
Ahtisham zahid
Sharmeen Fatima
Asad Malik
Sundas Ashraf
Sidra Habib

4. SEQUENCE
 History
 Introduction
 Problems of Pakistan Railways
 Current operational position
 Causes of decline
 Measures & suggestions
 Recent steps of improvement
 conclusion

5. HISTORY
 The idea of a rail network was first thought of in 1847 by Henry Edward
appointed as the commissioner of Sindh.
 On May 13th, 1861 the first railway line was opened to the public, between
Karachi city and kotri with a total distance of 105 miles.
 In Pakistan train were the primary mode of transport until the 1970s, but
since then their share has declined due to a shift in government focus from
rail to road transport. From 2005 to 2010, budgetary expenditure on
railways was only Rs45.5bn compared to Rs155bn on the national
highways.

6. SALIENT FEATURES
1. Head quarter in Lahore.
2. Stretched over 8000 km.
3. Important mode of transport.
4. Administer under federal government, ministry of railways.
5. It has an annual revenue of around RS 5.53 billion (2012-
2013)

7. INTRODUCTION

 It is under the administration of federal government and its head quarter is
in Lahore. It is an important source of transportation throughout Pakistan. It
carries millions of passengers throughout the country. It used to carry huge
freight in Pakistan.
 It is now basically financially bankcrupt organization. In other words it is on
the verge of financial collapse.
Pakistan Railways, lifeline of the country, is a national state-run transport
service. Among the means of transportation railways are the cheapest
and safest mode for passengers and goods. It also helps in growth of
economy for the country.

8. IMPORTANCE OF PAKISTAN RAILWAYS
 Pakistan Railways has been playing a very crucial role in social, economic
and political development of Pakistan.
 Employing more than 80,000 persons
 Employment indirectly to at least ten times more
 Contributes substantially to the GDP of the country.
 With more than 80 million passengers every year
 Being the cheapest mode of transportation of goods and commuting
passengers, it has been the pivot of Pakistan’s development.

9. WHO REPLACE RAILWAYS
 CNG buses
 Daewoo Express
 Kohistan
 Khan brothers
 Niazi Express

10. PROBLEMS OF PAKISTAN
RAILWAYS
 Reduce share in Transport
 Mismanagement
 Corruption is the biggest problem
Pakistan Railways is facing today

11. Cont…
 Old machinery and tracks of Pakistan railways
 No accountability
 Lack of commercial skills
 Time schedule
 Lack of technical staff

12. DECLINE OF PAKISTAN RAILWAY
Pakistan railways is not still not only the cheapest yet safest mode of
travel. But this public state enterprise is also the largest civil employer
in the country. However, over the years, lack of attention poor
policies, increasing expenditures, misappropriation of funds, pilferage
, nepotism and most recently, the floods have left the railways with
huge deficits running in billions of rupees.

14. CURRENT OPERATIONAL POSITION
 Faces deficit of Rs 26252.315 Millions
 Shortage of locomotives
 No freight trains
 Half of locomotives are out of order
 Communication system is out dated
 Track is over aged
 Borrowed 40 billion from state bank
 Paying 4.6 billion as a interest to SBP
 Revenue declining consecutively

15. CO-OPERATION FROM CHINA
 China is actively involved in the development of Pakistan Railways for the
past five years
 China is to export 69 modern locomotive engines to Pakistan to modernize
Pakistan's railway fleet.
 the first 15 engines will be manufactured in China and the remainder will
be assembled in Pakistan, with spare parts and technology provided by
China.

16. Despite having world’s best
railway track flowing across the
country like the course of rivers,
Pakistan Railway proved is just like
a “White Elephant” as its slope is
on a ramp in declining phase
since 90’s.

17. CAUSES OF DECLINE
 There are various reasons of the decline of the Pakistan
railway. They are categorized as:
 Political causes
 Technical causes
 Managerial cause

18. MANAGERIAL CAUSES
 Decrease in Revenues:
 Increased Costs:
 Consumer Dissatisfaction:
 Underinvestment

19. MEASURES & SUGGESTIONS
 Privatization
 New engines
 New fast trains
 Double track system
 Decrease the cost of fuel
 Separation of production and operation
 Security system should be improved
 Investment

21. RECENT STEPS OF IMPROVEMENT
 Corruption control
 Removal of nepotistic persons
 Timing and Scheduling
 Decreasing the fairs

22. RESTRUCTING OF PAKISTAN RAILWAY
 Time is important to the customers
 The seat reservation system should be made online
 The first line staff should be trained
 Railways service center should be initiated
 Proper information should be provided to the customers
 Railway stations should be clean

23. CONCLUSION
In our discussion we have discuss many problems, causes and measures.
Steps of improvement in railway departments have been taken by the current
government and hope that all the problems will over and railway department
will a profitable department again.
The best solution of this problem is the privatization of Pakistan Railway. We
can take the example of PTCL, before privatization PTCL's monthly losses were
in billions. Today it is not only a profitable organization but also providing
excellent services to the customers. Corruption in Pakistan Railways can only
be removed by privatization of Pakistan Railways.