"Govt to hand over Janakpur Railway to Rail Dept" :: myrepublica.com
KATHMANDU, Nov 2: The government has decided to bring Janakpur Railway Company (JRC), which operates Janakpur-Jainagar railway, under the purview of Department of Railway (DoR) in the Ministry of Physical Planning and Works (MoPPW).
A cabinet meeting held immediately after the India visit of Prime Minister Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai took the decision, paving the way for DoR to oversee management of the country´s sole and oldest rail service, which has been so far under the Ministry of Labor and Transport Management (MoLTM).
“The government made the decision keeping in view the need to appoint a single authority, which is DoR now, to oversee all railway matters. This decision has ended all practical problems in managing the sector, which till now involved different agencies in its management,” Ram Kumar Lamsal, director general of DoR, told Republica on Tuesday.
Lamsal said the DoR will devise plans for the revival of the country´s ailing rail service that requires over Rs 1 billion of investment to make it fully operational and financially independent.
“We will take over the management responsibilities after taking stock of assets and liabilities of the railways, that is once we get a formal letter of the cabinet decision,” said Lamsal.
The government formed the DoR in July, according it the responsibility to oversee all railway related works. It has also approved a quota of 35 employees for the newly-opened DoR.
The Parliament´s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) had directed the government on August 11 to hand over the responsibility of managing the state-owned railways from the MoLTM to the DoR of MoPPW in a bid to end confusion as to which agency is responsible to oversee the 75-year old Nepal railways.
In the presence of ministers and top officials of MoLTM and MoPPW, the JRC had floated a long-term actionplan involving over Rs 1.34 billion at a PAC meeting to give a new lease of life to the loss making railways and turn it into a profit-making undertaking with a daily revenue worth Rs 100,000.
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A cabinet meeting held immediately after the India visit of Prime Minister Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai took the decision, paving the way for DoR to oversee management of the country´s sole and oldest rail service, which has been so far under the Ministry of Labor and Transport Management (MoLTM).
“The government made the decision keeping in view the need to appoint a single authority, which is DoR now, to oversee all railway matters. This decision has ended all practical problems in managing the sector, which till now involved different agencies in its management,” Ram Kumar Lamsal, director general of DoR, told Republica on Tuesday.
Lamsal said the DoR will devise plans for the revival of the country´s ailing rail service that requires over Rs 1 billion of investment to make it fully operational and financially independent.
“We will take over the management responsibilities after taking stock of assets and liabilities of the railways, that is once we get a formal letter of the cabinet decision,” said Lamsal.
The government formed the DoR in July, according it the responsibility to oversee all railway related works. It has also approved a quota of 35 employees for the newly-opened DoR.
The Parliament´s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) had directed the government on August 11 to hand over the responsibility of managing the state-owned railways from the MoLTM to the DoR of MoPPW in a bid to end confusion as to which agency is responsible to oversee the 75-year old Nepal railways.
In the presence of ministers and top officials of MoLTM and MoPPW, the JRC had floated a long-term actionplan involving over Rs 1.34 billion at a PAC meeting to give a new lease of life to the loss making railways and turn it into a profit-making undertaking with a daily revenue worth Rs 100,000.
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