Tag: Project

KARACHI - A $ 377 million dollars 650-megawatts Combined Cycle Bin Qasim Power Plant project of Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC), which is claimed to be completed by the next year, is going to hit a snag as the project was being developed without arrangement of gas.
Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) the prime source of gas to the company was neither been contacted nor any demand of additional gas for the same project was made by the power supplying company, sources said. As

SAHIWAL - Federal Minister Mehar Ghulam Farid Kathia inaugurated a development project worth Rs 380 million in Noor Shah. Under the project, development schemes of electricity, Sui gas, drainage and roads would be completed in Harappa and Noor Shah.
Speaking on this occasion, the federal minister said it was the first and foremost duty of the federal government to provide all basic facilities to the people. He added the government would make all-out efforts to create job

KARACHI - Amid several delays in both the awarding of dredging contracts and the physical dredging in the Deep Water Container Port (PDWCP) due to a lack of requisite equipment; the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) is still waiting for the delivery of two new dredgers to resume work on the project.
This lack of planning on the part of the KPT has resulted in the relegation of the project as it is behind schedule by roughly three to four years. This has caused not only consternation on

FAISALABAD - Pakistan's nuclear scientist Dr Samar Mubarakmund has said that Pakistan's Thar coal deposits are a blessing and Pakistan can obtain the cheapest electricity generation through coal gas to overcome its energy crisis.
He was speaking at a seminar titled "Energy Crisis in Pakistan" held at Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) at East Canal Road. He said the underground coal deposits spreading over 9,600 square kilometers in Sindh were 100 times more in

KARACHI - On the advice of President Asif Ali Zardari, the Sindh chief secretary has formed a committee to resolve the issue of the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) land, where the first module of the S-III project has to be established.
The body comprises the Land Utilisation (LU) member, the executive district officer revenue and the settlement and survey director.
KPT Secretary Khalid Mobin Arshad had forwarded a letter to the chief secretary on January 1 to remind him that in a

ISLAMABAD - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to lend up to $100 million for the construction of the gas-fired Uch II 404MW power plant in Murad Jamali district of Balochistan. According to a statement issued by the bank, the power plant would be constructed near the existing Uch-I power project and would be developed by International Power of the United Kingdom, the single largest private investor in Pakistan's electricity sector.
The project will get gas from the Uch

ISLAMABAD - Serious reservations of Capital Development Authority (CDA)'s financial experts did not deter their bosses from approving a 37 percent over the Note of Inviting Tender cost bid for the construction of additional family suites at parliament lodges, sources said.
After the approval of this project, the cost which was originally Rs 2.5 billion, has now reached Rs 4 billion, the sources said, adding that the bid was not approved by the Tender Acceptance Committee (ATC)

JERUSALEM - Israel is to approve 1,400 new settler homes in east Jerusalem, media and the local council said on Sunday, defying pressure to halt settlement building that has stalled peace talks with the Palestinians.
The massive construction project will add homes to the annexed east Jerusalem settlement neighbourhood of Gilo and is expected to receive final approval from the district planning commission within days.
The project is likely to spark condemnation from the

ISLAMABAD - The cash strapped Capital Development Authority (CDA) is all set to start construction work for Kashmir Highway while the civic body has stopped its many ongoing projects owing to the paucity of funds.
The CDA had decided to start construction work on the Kashmir Highway in March that would cost Rs 2.60 billion while around Rs 2 billion was required to complete those projects over which the CDA had stopped or slowed down the work due to the scarcity of funds, an

LAHORE - The cash-stripped Punjab government, already facing an overdraft of more than Rs 22 billion, is passing on its financial brunt to contractors, even the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), engaged in the Lahore Road Rehabilitation Programme (LRRP) Phase II since 2008, Pakistan Today has learnt. CM's Secretariat sources told Pakistan Today that with advent of 2011, the Punjab government assured all contractors including the FWO to improve their payments system for development

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team has completed investigation into Tawana Pakistan Health Project scam case and it will submit the findings to the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench on December 24 (Friday).
A source told Pakistan Today on Tuesday that Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of FIA found misappropriation of Rs 170 million funds.
He said that under the project, Rs 310 million had been allocated to a private company for supply of milk, juices and

KARACHI: The multibillion-dollar Pakistan Deep Water Container Port (PDWCP) project is once again mired by the scourge of decades-old "underwater obstructions", Pakistan Today has learnt. The wreckage of at least 10 ships sunk within port limits since 1972 are now hindering the Rs 19.28 billion dredging and reclamation works at the long-awaited PDWCP, valued at $1.087 billion.
To rectify the situation it is now considering awarding a variation order worth over Rs 500 million.