PPP ~ Development projects and modernisation of Sindh

[Qalandari]

For those ignorants like the one above who don't have a clue of what Keenjhar lake resort project is all about:

The Kalri (Keenjhar) Lake Project is an exercise of turning this land into a Resort, Theme Park, Farmhouse Project etc., and the probability of providing firstclass water sports activities at nearby Kalri Lake, also known as Keenjhar lake, just 2 minutes drive away.

Presently there are no recreational facilities and theplots for sale are undeveloped agriculture land. However, the plots are situatedon the National Highway, 110 km from Karachi and 90 km from Hyderabad. The plotsback on to the most beautiful canal in Sindh, the Kalri Baghar Feeder (K.B. FeederCanal) with its blue, sometimes turquoise coloured flowing waters.

The source ofthis blue water is the breathtakingly beautiful PQ Falls where water from Kalri /Keenjhar Lake is released through numerous gates. One can spend hours watchingvarious fish jump and swim against the current. PQ Falls & Kalri Lake are hardly akm away from the land. Both the PQ Falls and the K.B. feeder can be seen from theFarmhouse Project Land.

At the Location
First Wind Power Plant to operate at Jherruck, Thatta, close to Keenjhar Lake750 Acre Resort, Theme Park, Hotel to be constructed at Keenjhar LakeNew Double Super Highway Quality Road under construction to Keenjhar LakeThatta Bye-pass to be connected to Keenjhar Lake via K. B. Feeder Canal RoadNatural Gas line under construction and progressing, just 2 km awayLand on Scenic K B Feeder, very near to P Q Falls, Keenjhar Lake, Sondha Regulatorand the new 500 Acre Resort & Theme Park.




Keenjher Lake or Kalri Lake is located 22 kilometers away from Thatta and about 122 kilometers from Karachi and 80 Kilometers from Hyderabad.

The Sindh Tourism Department in collaboration with the provincial government’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Unit had offered the Keenjhar Lake Development Project on PPP basis, under which the government would foot 40 percent bills and the investor would inject 60 percent capital into the project. The target time for completion of it is 2020.

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  Development of Keenjhar Lake Resort
  
  
• Meinhardt - Engineering for the future - engineers, planners, managers
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• Location:Thatta District
  
  Country Pakistan
  
  Client:Government of Sindh
  
  Architect:
  
  The project has been envisaged as a World Class Resort Development. The project comprises a 200-Room 5-Star hotel, villas, conference centers and a number of sports & recreational facilities.The scope of services includes Design Management, Coordination with International Architect (SRSS), Detailed Architectural Design and Engineering (Civil, Structural, Mechanical & Electrical) Design of Building Works.
  
  The scope also includes Master Planning & Design of Infrastructure Development Works (Roads, Jetties/Piers, Water Supply, Sewerage, Drainage, Electrification & Telecommunication).
  
  
  Topographical Survey of 10km Road & 1250 Acre of “DEVELOPMENT OF KEENJHAR LAKE RESORT PROJECT” for PPP Unit Finance Department, Government of Sindh
  
  
  
  

Since when is Multan part of Sindh ? or PPP

lol

The pics of development work of Multan are the ones which were carried out by the PPP federal government of 2008.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

1960 ki bhi development dal do

 

[Qalandari]

Tax holiday to investors in interior Sindh: Qaim

KARACHI: Sindh government is offering tax holiday for investment in the interior parts of province, said Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah on Thursday.

Talking to Ambassador of Republic South Korea Song Jong-hwan he said rural areas of province held good potential for investment in different sectors.

Qaim said it was for the first time Sindh government has created economic zones in interior Sindh where tax holiday and other relevant incentives were being provided to investors.

He said he had recently inaugurated Khairpur Economic Zone aimed at development of remote areas as well as creation of jobs for the people.

Through internal and foreign investment Sindh government intended to exploit all available resources for betterment of the people. He said Sindh’s economy was agro-based which was frequently registering surplus production of rice, wheat and cotton. Yet room for improvement still exists and we can raise per acre yield, he said.

Karachi also holds tremendous potential for investment and he invited Korean traders/businessman to avail the opportunity.

Appreciating investment made by Republic of South Korea, particularly in the context of infrastructure, he invited investors and concerned companies to be part of Public Private Partnership mode of investment in field of energy, transportation and infrastructure development.

He said his government has initiated different transport related projects like Bus Rapid Transit and Inter City Transport to facilitate people. Qaim also lauded quality of work on Hyderabad-Mirpurkhas Road completed by a Korean company.

Tax holiday to investors in interior Sindh: Qaim

 

[PurpleButcher]

@ Qalandri last time you started this thread, Pakistan lost to west indies... please wait for 24 hrs...

 

[Qalandari]

70% of the total cost will be spent on installing new gates with piezometric systems, which measure water pressure on either side of the barrage. PHOTO: APP

Sindh government gives the green light for rehabilitation of Guddu barrage

HYDERABAD: The Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) has given the green light to the $211 million project for the rehabilitation of Guddu Barrage, the first upstream irrigation structure on the Indus River in Sindh, which is expected to improve vital water supplies to farmlands in the province.

The World Bank will contribute 90% of the required financing through a loan after the Central Development Working Party (CDWP) and the Executive Committee of National Economic Council (Ecnec) approve the scheme.

“We will most likely get approval from the federal government this year and the WB has already assured us of the availability of funds,” an official privy to the development told The Express Tribune.

According to him, the WB country head will meet officials of the Sindh Barrages Rehabilitation Project (SBRP) on March 1 to discuss the scheme.

The life of the barrage, built in 1963 with a capacity of 1.2 million cusecs, will be extended by another 50 years after the completion of this five-year project.

According to officials, 91 gates, including 66 at the barrage and 25 at regulator heads of its three off-taking canals, a new dividing wall and river training structures in the downstream will be built.

Up to 70% of the cost will be spent on installing new gates with piezometric systems, which measure water pressure on either side of the barrage for the purpose of maintaining a balance.

The left-side dividing wall in the barrage, which is currently built after the fourth gate, will be rebuilt after the seventh gate. This construction, which will help ease flows in left bank canals of Guddu, will consume 10% of the project cost.

As much outlay will be required for building a J-shaped spur, which will help give direction to the river water through an engineering structure in the barrage downstream. The remaining 10% of funds will be spent on consultancy services.

Sindh agrees to push ahead with barrage rehabilitation – The Express Tribune

 

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Sharjeel Memon removes wall chalking during the clean Karachi campaign. PHOTO: PPI

KARACHI:
Sindh Minister for Information and Local Government Sharjeel Inam Memon said on Friday that Karachi requires a new master plan for its roads.

“Most of the roads today are encroached upon by shopkeepers’ wares, pushcarts and other structures. Resultantly, people can only use 20 per cent of the road,” he said while issuing strict instructions to metropolitan commissioner about the removal of encroachments from all the arteries.

No cleanliness drive can succeed without people owning the city, he said. At least people should come out on the streets to clean up their localities. The campaign would continue until the whole province is cleaned of waste, encroachments and terrorism, the minister said.

“I must admit in front of the media that we cannot achieve the desired goals neither do we claim 100% cleanliness. However, I believe that with sincerity and good intention, by God’s grace, we will give it our best shot,” he said on the fifth day of ‘Clean, Green and Peaceful Sindh’ drive, after removing wall-chalking in Orangi Town and around FTC flyover on Shahrae Faisal.

Meanwhile, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation in coordination with district municipal corporations removed a total of over 16, 000 tonnes of garbage from different areas of the city and dispatched it to the landfill sites during the last five days.

The municipal authority also performed fumigation with the help of 30 spray vehicles in the city, whereas colouring of trees, electric poles and pavements was also done in different areas of the city along with removal of wall-chalking and banners.

Cleanliness drive in Hyderabad underway

 

[SHAMK9]

Development, modernization and PPP do not go together.

 

[Qalandari]

This building will serve as a symbol of partnership between the US and Pakistan for developing strong educational institutions, says the US ambassador. PHOTO: NNI

New dept set up at KU with aid worth $1.9m

KARACHI: The new teacher education department at the University of Karachi (KU) stands in stark contrast to the delapidated buildings of the surrounding social sciences departments.

Built with $1.9 million worth of aid from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the new building was inaugurated on Saturday by US ambassador to Pakistan Richard G Olson and education minister Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, accompanied by US consul-general Brian Heath and KU vice-chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Qaisar. It is located adjacent to the political science department in the social sciences faculty, formerly known as the arts faculty.

The building will be used for the recently-introduced teacher education programmes that the USAID and the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan had jointly designed in 2010. These programmes are a two-year associate degree in education (ADE) and a four-year Bachelor’s of Education (BEd Hons).

According to Olson, these teacher education programmes were a part of the USAID’s ‘Teachers Education Project’, a $75-million initiative, to bring reforms for a long-term sustainability in Pakistan’s education sector by educating the current and future teachers in partnership with the provincial education departments.

Since 2012, these particular programmes are being taught to nearly 6,000 students at around 23 universities and 79 colleges of Pakistan, said a USAID spokesperson. He added that a little less than half of these future teachers have been pursuing their degrees on USAID-funded scholarships.

“Together with the Pakistani government, the United States is working to improve the quality of teacher education in the country and provide the best learning and work environment for the future teachers of Pakistan,” said Olson.

According to Olson, USAID – with its $45-million support – will continue to help build faculties of teachers education across the country. These comprise one at the University of Sindh, Jamshoro, another at the Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, and 14 more at other universities across the country.

Khuhro vowed that the provincial government will make all teacher recruitments purely on merit. “With the support of our international partners, we are committed to improving the quality of teachers’ education and the standard of basic education in the province.”

New dept set up at KU with aid worth $1.9m – The Express Tribune

 

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[Armstrong]

@dexter @HRK - How the heck can anyone support PPP is beyond me !

 

[dexter]

@dexter @HRK - How the heck can anyone support PPP is beyond me !

Mere bhai ye jamhuriat ka husan hai

 

[Meengla]

One thing that this Sindh PPP govt CAN get some credit for is the realization of the Gorakh Hill project:

Gorakh Hill Station - Dadu, Pakistan - Tourist Attraction, Tourist Information | Facebook

Apparently, thousands of people have been already there and hundreds go up there every month. There is now even a restaurant and a hotel on top.

I think Gorakh deserves a separate dedicated and 'sticky' thread though: It is the only hill station in Sindh and I think will contribute a lot to the development of that region.

 

[Armstrong]

Mere bhai ye jamhuriat ka husan hai

Bhai husan apni jagaa but who in their right mind's would vote for PPP when the past 5 years are in front of everyone - the country went back in time not forward !

Na roootiii milli, kapraa bhiii uttar giyaa aur makaan ka tu kuch na poocheiiin !