KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that he was committed to complete Karachi Bulk Water Supply Scheme K-IV project for which he was working hard to arrange funds and waiting for Nespak report of design verifications.
This he said on Saturday evening while presiding over a meeting to review the present status of the project. The meeting was attended by Minister Local Government Saeed Ghani, Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, Secretary Local Government Khalid Hyder Shah, Special Secretary Local Government Niaz Soomro, MD Water Board Asadullah Khan and PD K-IV project Asad Zamin.
The chief minister was told that K-IV was planned for providing 660 MDG (1200) cusecs water supply to Karachi in three phases. Phase-I of 260 MGD, Phase-II of 260 and phase-III of 130 MGD to be completed by 2022-26.
The K-IV project, phase-I contract was awarded to FWO in 2016 for Rs28.187 billion to be completed in packages within a period of 24 months. The package-A of civil work signed at Rs15.254 billion and package-B of electrical and mechanical works was signed for Rs12.9 billion.
The K-IV is basically a three-phased schemes of channels or conduits (conveyance system) only to carry water from Kinjhar to Karachi. In 2015-16 it was realized that even if K-IV phase-I project was competed, it would not give any benefit to the people of the city because there would not be enough electricity to pump and supply water- means there was no connectivity of bulk channel with distribution network. Moreover, more than 120 km conveyance system was being laid passing through a variable terrain as well as highway, there was no provision of bridges and culverts etc and minimum colonies for the personnel. Therefore, the Sindh government decided ancillary and supplementary components.
They are K-IV road and pedestrian bridges, staff colonies, fencing workshop etc. Under Augmentation plan included to connect three filter of K-IV project with existing Bulk Water Supply system of KWSB through three augmentation pipelines, one at Pipri, other one at NEK and third one at COD at a cost of Rs18.679 billion.
