Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan has released Rs38.4 million for laying of an exclusive water pipeline to the Tannery Zone of Korangi Industrial Area (KIA) to provide water to the export-oriented leather industries. The PC-I of the project has already been prepared by the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) and the contract for the project has been awarded to a local firm following tendering process. After the completion of project the Tannery Zone would be getting three million gallons water per day. The Governor Sindh took this decision following a meeting of the delegation of Pakistan Tanners Association (SZ) led by its Chairman Khurshid Ahmed with the Governor, Managing Director KWSB Misbah Uddin Farid, Administrator KMC, Muhammad Husain Syed and Commissioner KMC Matanat Ali Khan at Governor House recently. Khurshid Ahmed apprised the meeting that billion dollars leather industry was dying due to the water crisis and the over Rs40 billion’s exports have been threatened due to the drought like situation at Tannery Zone. He further said that PTA had sent many SOS to the KWSB high ups but to no avail. The KWSB MD, Misbah Uddin informed the Governor about shortage of funds for not laying a separate pipeline for Tannery Zone.
