The Project envisages construction of 43-km dual track modern mass urban rail transit system in the metropolitan city of Karachi on Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis.

The Project is expected to attract daily ridership of ~457,000 passengers in the first operational year which is expected to soar to ~1 million passengers a day over a concession period of 33 years. The Project will deploy use of the 25 electric trains initially which will be operational for 17.5 hours a day and 7 days a week. The number of trains will increase with the increase in ridership.

The Project is anticipated to fetch significant economic and environmental benefits in terms of vehicle operating costs & time savings, reduction in carbon emissions, job creation and spill over tax impact. The initiative later transitioned to a Government-to-Government (G-to-G) mode.