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The Federal & Punjab governments signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC), to begin the feasibility study of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Circular Railway project.
The MoU was signed by Capital Development Authority (CDA) Member Planning Dr Shahid Mehmood on behalf of the federal government, Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) Chief Engineer Amir Rasheed on behalf of the Punjab government and Jia Huiqin on behalf of the CCECC, an state owned Chinese company, .
The company will carry out the study on the cost of running a train between the twin cities from the Soan River near the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) to Kashmir Highway in Islamabad.
It will undertake the preliminary study on the feasibility of the project, which includes the assessment of its technical, legal, financial and commercial viability.
A ten-member team of China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) visited various points of Leh Nullah as part of feasibility study of the project along with Leh Expressway Project. Punjab government has already started process of demarcation of area alongside the Leh Nullah. The process of land acquiring will begin shortly.
A train service between the two cities was also planned during the Musharraf regime, but the PML-N government halted work on this project and began its own project to run the metro bus service.
However, the PTI government wants to run a separate track for a circular rail service along the Nullah Leh Expressway.
Leh Nullah Basin has a catchment area of 234.9 km. The catchment area of the nullah basin is administratively divided into Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) in the upper reaches of 144.4 km and Rawalpindi City of Punjab Province in the lower reaches of 90.5km.
Leh Nullah has a length of about 30km, stretching from the Margalla hills in Islamabad at the North-western edge until Soan River at the South-eastern edge in District Rawalpindi of Punjab. The Basin is located between 33º 33´ and 33º 46´ North and 72º 55´ and 73º 07´ East.
The company will undertake the preliminary study on the project’s feasibility, which will include assessing technical, legal, financial and commercial viability and cost estimates, taking into consideration the requirements of related government bodies.
After the study is complete, he said, the parties will hold a consultation on its findings and make a PC-I on the basis of a public-private partnership. The study will be completed in three months, and the company will also identify areas along the route for commercial ventures.
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