The National Assembly was informed on Friday that there were 81,568 employees in Railways against the sanctioned strength of above 95,000.
Answering a question during the question hour, Parliamentary Secretary of Railways Mohammad Ashiq Hussain Shah rejected a perception that railway employees were performing duty in shifts. He said there were 6,390 personnel in Railways police, protecting its installations, key points, coaches, tracks and stations.
He said no proposal was under consideration to import new locomotives from China and no amount had been allocated for the purpose.
The Railways was not planning to shift its headquarters office from Lahore to Islamabad because there were three major organisational units already working there, he added.
