The federal government allocated an amount of Rs1,500 million, for operationalisation of train on existing Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) alignment in the budget for the fiscal year 2020-21.
The Sindh government has allocated Rs3bn for the construction of underpasses and overhead bridges over railway crossings along the KCR route.
According to the budget document, the Sindh government has allocated Rs230 million for the fencing along the existing alignment of the KCR.

The Pakistan Railways do not need to remove further settlements for the operation of the Karachi Circular Railways (KCR). Karachi Railways Divisional Superintendent (DS) Arshad Salam Khattak has told The News that they have got space for the operation of the circular train.
The National Engineering Services Pakistan (NESPAK) is the lead and technical consultant of the KCR revival project while the AKHUND Forbes is the legal consultant. ProMag is also the technical consultant with expertise in the real estate, the China Railway Engineering Corporation is a technical sub-consultant and the Hang Law associates is the project’s legal sub-consultant. The KMPG is the financial consultant.
The KCR project is 12.63 kilometres at grade (on the ground), and 30.75 kilometres elevated with 24 railway stations out of which 14 will be elevated. The average distance between each station will be 1.8 kilometres.
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