LAHORE: Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed said on Saturday that after giving three freight trains to the private sector, nine more trains would be given to the sector in the coming days. Under the tenders of infotainment, the contract of waste management or cleanliness would be allotted to the private sector, he added. “We have already given the responsibility of waste management of three trains to the private sector. “After the new recruitment policy of Pakistan Railways, 5,000 jobs will be given on merit from grade one to grade five,” he claimed. On another query, he maintained that Pakistan Railways “cannot change without the successful execution of Karachi-Peshawar Main Line-1 (ML-1) project”.

Source: Pakistan Today March 07, 2020 14:37 UTC