RAHIM YAR KHAN: A train was stopped for half an hour near a residential areafor three passengers who boarded it with `protocol of the railways police` A video went viral in which a resident of Habib Colony made a clip of 1-Up Khyber Mail on the main railway track half a kilometre away after leaving the RYK railway station on Monday.
Three members of a family arrived near the track by a car with a policeman who helped them board the train. The train remained there for about half an hour.
RYK Station Master Israr Soomro said the incident occurred at 10am on Monday when Lahorebound Khyber Mail started to depart and a family arrived late at the station and could not catch the train.
Meanwhile, the train guard saw the family and contacted the driver through wireless and the train was stopped near Habib Colony.
Later, he said, the guard contacted the PR police employees at the station and informed the family to immediately reach Habib Colony. A PR employee with the help of a private car dropped the family which boarded thetrain for their destination.
UPLIFT PROJECTS: Secretary Local Government and Community Development (LGCD) Punjab Imran Sikandar Baloch on Tuesday paid a visit to the Punjab Intermediate Cities Investment Improvement Program (PICIIP) head office where he was given a briefing on the progress of the ongoing uplift projects.
The secretary directed that all the Disbursement Linl(ed Indicators (DLIs) should be achieved in time, especially in view of the plight of the people in the form of excavation of sewerage and anticipated heavy rains.
It was further directed that the PICIIP authorities should remove other bottlenecks of the project effectively with the consultation of the respective district administrations.
PICIIP Project Director Hamza Salik, while briefing, apprised the Secretary LG in a followup meeting that the uplift schemes worth Rs43 billion were in the final stages of completion in Sialkot and Sahiwal while the other five cities in south Punjab Rahim Yar Khan, Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Bahawalpur and Muzaffargarh had also been included in the programme at an estimated cost of $600 million.
