TOBA TEK SINGH, Jan 4: Scores of people have protested over the change in local arrival time of 5 up Tezrau Express which runs between Karachi and Rawalpindi.

Complaining here on Friday, they said earlier the train had its arrival time at 4:05am and it had to reach Faisalabad at 5:50am, adding now it would reach here at 4:50am and Faisalabad at 6:25am.

They maintained hundreds of travellers hailing from Shorkot Cantonment, Toba, Rajana, Pirmahal, Kamalia and Gojra would suffer delay. They were forced to pick up 78 up non-stop train from Faisalabad to Lahore which left the station at 6:10am, they added.

The protesters claimed the railways would suffer a loss of hundreds of thousands of rupees for its decision with the connivance of transporters of buses and vans.

They urged the authorities concerned to review their decision for the benefit of the department and the public.

CHANGED: The Punjab government has, under government rules of business, changed the designation of district industrial officers. They would be called district officer enterprises and investment promotion, a source said here on Thursday.

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