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Theft or leakage: 22 tons of spark goes ‘missing’, Railways comes underneath pressure
- Updated: February 2, 2017
LAHORE: The government of Pakistan Railways (PR) was dealt a blow on Thursday after an whole hopper car of a burden train, that ecstatic alien spark from Port Qasim to a energy plant in Sahiwal, was found empty.
It was a second spark shipment for a 1,320-megawatt Sahiwal coal-fired energy plant to exam a imagination of PR in timely delivering a cargo.
“Each car of a burden sight was carrying 22 tons of coal, yet a tangible ability of any of them was 70 tons,” a PR orator told The Express Tribune.
“These operations were carried out on an initial basis, however, when a energy plant starts using during full capacity, a railways will ride spark according to a demand,” he said.
Officials operative on a energy plant have uttered regard over a blank coal, that was alien from South Africa.
“We are questioning a tangible reason; a disaster has already been combined in a energy plant over this negligence, that yet is not huge, though can presumably open some-more avenues of burglary and a discuss either a railways is a safest mode of spark transportation,” pronounced an official.
“The cost of this alien bituminous spark is roughly double than a locally constructed spark and a burglary can't be ignored,” he added.
PR recently got a initial shipment of 7 4,000 horsepower locomotives from General Electric, a US engineering company.
Each locomotive cost Rs570 million and it is approaching that out of a sum 55 new locomotives, around 25 will be utilized for transporting coal.
Recently, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique perceived a initial burden sight carrying 12,000 tons of spark for a $1.6 billion Sahiwal energy plant.
PR has constituted a cabinet to examine a matter of blank coal. The spokesman, however, discharged a thought of theft, observant there were reports of spark steam from a car during transportation.
“These hoppers (railway wagons) have been designed by China and made in Pakistan; they have both automobile and primer features. It is approaching that someone intentionally or unintentionally put a car on a primer mode from Karachi that caused a leakage,” he said.
The central delegated during a energy plant, however, argued that how it was probable that spark was leaking from a car and no one attempted to stop it.
“It could serve strengthen a probability of theft. If any railway user put a car on a primer mode, afterwards there is a probability of burglary by some reduce railway staff; it needs to be checked,” he added.
The PR orator insisted that in sequence to equivocate such incidents in a future, a railways had motionless to pattern a locking device for a burden wagons.
“Our belligerent realities are most opposite from other countries; a house has motionless to implement a locking device in all hopper wagons to control any such emanate in a future,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, Feb 3rd, 2017.
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