NA body for restoring Magistracy system in Railawys
By Ali Imran

ISLAMABAD—National Assembly Standing Committee on Railways Tuesday strongly recommended that magistracy system may be reintroduced in the Railways to remove impediments in dealing with land encroachers.
The Committee meeting chaired by Sardar Tufail Ahmed Khan MNA in Quetta, also recommended that jurisdiction of the Railways Police may also be extended to the Railways land.
The Committee was briefed about the position of landencroached by the land mafia and the land reclaimed.
The General Manager Railways informed the Committee that afterthe separation of executive and judiciary, the Special Railways Magistrate were placed under the administrative control of Districtand Session Judges and since then they were only conducting work asJudicial Officers with no executive control of either DivisionalSuperintendent or Director (Property & land).
In order to deal with the problems the restorationof the previous system is imperative, he said.
“The previous Magistracy system should be reintroduced in the Pakistan Railways and the authority of Railway Police may be extended to the Railways land in order to effectively deal with themenace of land encroachment,” the Committee recommended afterhearing the argument. Earlier, the Divisional Railways Quetta Division briefed theCommittee about its working and jurisdiction.
He said, Quetta Division is one of the most important Divisionof Pakistan Railways due to its strategic location and a trackspreading over 1330.36 km.
He informed about the ongoing development projects of Railwaysand utilization of land in Quetta Railways Division. The Committee appreciated the working of Railways Division, Quetta.
The Committee asked the Railways Ministry to improve theservice structure and pay scales of the Railways employees and initiate welfare projects for the employees and their families. he meeting was attended by MNAs Muhammad Farooq Azam Malik, Dev Das, Syed Akhlaq Hussain Abidi and G M (Ops) Pakistan Railways and other senior officers of the Ministry and Quetta Division.