Centre to spend Rs450 million for hiring of consultant for ML-1.

Islamabad -- The federal government will spend Rs450 million for hiring of consultant for the preparation of governance-HR structures, development of business and cash flow models and its implementation for upgradation of Karachi to Peshawar Main Line-1 (ML-1) under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has approved the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Support Project (2nd Revised) at the cost of Rs909.285 million - the main component of which is the hiring of consultancy firm and salaries of the employees, a source told The Nation. For hiring of consultancy firm-an allocation of Rs450 million, for the payment of salaries and allowances-Rs383.373 million, while the remaining allocation will go to other components of the project, the source said. The Original PC-I of the project was approved by the Central Development Working Party (CDWP), in 2015, at the total cost of Rs252.0 million without FEC. The project envisages establishing a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Support Secretariat at Ministry of Railways. The 1st Revised PC-1 of the project was approved by the DDWP, in 2020 at the total cost of Rs910.347 million with FEC of Rs198.0 million. Now the CDWP once again revised the PC-I at the cost of Rs909.285 million.

According the source, the main reason for the revision of PC-1 was hiring of consultants for the preparation of Governance and HR Structures and Development of Business and Cash Flow Models for upgrading ML-1 and their implementation. Revision of pay packages according to new Project Pay Scales (PPS) issued by the Finance Division and rationalisation of human resource as per requirement of the project.

The 2nd Revised Project envisages establishing Project Management Unit (PMU) at the Ministry of Railways and a Project Implementation Unit (PIU) in Lahore, for efficient and effective implementation of the CPEC activities on ML-1 of Pakistan Railways. These activities primarily comprise supervision and monitoring of the project activities like preliminary design, cost estimation, preparation of PC-1, monitoring and processing of tenders for EPC contract(s), and monitoring and liaison during the execution of the project, and for this purpose, a specific provision was made in the PC-1 for hiring of human resource.

Main objective of the project is to...

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