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Master Plan &Design Concept: Jurong Consultants (Singapore)
Status: Under Construction
Architectural & Engineering Drawings: NESPAK
Contractors: N/A
Infrastructure Type: Industrial Zone
Construction Date: September 2006
Completion Date: 2025
Location: Korangi Creek Industrial Park (KCIP), Korangi, Karachi

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Website: National Industrial Parks (NIP)

Edited by Tekno Arkitect, 15 December 2012 - 08:39 PM.
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[Tekno Arkitect]

Industrial park work starts without NOC
By Amar Guriro



KARACHI: The National Industrial Parks Development and Management Company (NIP) has started construction on an environmentally controversial industrial park project in Korangi without acquiring a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

For the last one year, the EPA was working on an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the project. The EIA was conducted by the National Engineering Service of Pakistan (NESPAK) so that the prerequisites for the environmental act of 1997 could be fulfilled. According to law, construction work cannot be started until an EIA is carried out, and an NOC obtained from the EPA.

The EPA has decided to issue the NOC, but has not done so yet, and regardless, the NIP has started construction at the proposed site. The 250-acre project is to be built near Korangi Creek and is located near the southern coastal belt near Gizri Creek, between Pakistan Refinery Limited and the Korangi nullah.

Furthermore, a couple of days ago the EPA asked the general public, legislators, environmentalists, and journalists to submit objection letters to their NOC. The request was advertised in all the national daily papers and May 3 (today) has been set as the hearing date for any objections. The EPA will also provide the EIA for this one-of-a-kind industrial park.

Daily Times visited the project’s construction site Wednesday noon and found that over three dozen laborers were on the ground, some of who were napping in tents. Three big tents, three carriages, and three cranes were also found at the site. Temporary electricity generators were installed for the temporary offices. Next to all of these installments a lot of construction work had already been carried out.

An engineer at the site, Rashid Zafar, mentioned that all this construction happening so far was only being done to construct the necessary infrastructure that is needed to carry out the actual construction.

Environmentalists fear that the solid waste and drainage that these industries will emit will severely affect the ecology of the area. Bhittai Colony, a hugely populated area, is also located near the site, and in addition to that, the project is threatening mangrove forests that are located just a few hundred meters from the proposed site. Rashid Zafar denied that the project will harm the ecosystem. “The plant will treat all the waste that is generated by this industrial park,” he argued.

Experts and environmentalists are of the opinion that the proposed plan would badly affect the forests. Environmentalist Muhammad Ishaq Mangrio said that the ecosystem of these forests would be completely destroyed. “The industrial park will certainly damage marine species which are already decreasing anyway,” he argued.

The proposal for this project states that 14 of the 250 acres provided will be used to actually build on, and the waste from these industries will be treated and disposed off into the Korangi nullah that flows to the sea.
Source: Daily Times

[Tekno Arkitect]

Project could change flow of Malir River

KARACHI: Experts and environmentalists have predicted that the establishment of this industrial park will change the flow of the Malir River, and the change in flow could damage the city. The proposed industrial park project is located on the edge of the Arabian Sea in Korangi Creek and the 250 acres of land for this proposed industrial park is located at Malir River’s catchment area. A river’s catchment area is the most significant factor in the probability of floods occurring. Although an acute water shortage has converted Malir River into a sewage reservoir, the river helps carry rain water to the Arabian Sea. This rain water is gathered from the catchment area. Muhammad Ishaq Mangrio, an environmentalist, said that if the flow of the river is changed or the catchment area blocked, it could be disastrous because the river may move to other areas to create a path for the rainwater. amar guriro
Source: Daily Times

[musiddiqui]

Ongoing road development at KCIP site


Ongoing road development at KCIP site


Ongoing road development at KCIP site


Site Office construction

[Tekno Arkitect]

Good updates MuSiddiqui!!!

Keep them coming!!

[musiddiqui]

Korangi Creek Industrial Park opened
Saturday, February 16, 2008
By our correspondent

KARACHI: Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan inaugurated the Korangi Creek Industrial Park (KCIP), a project undertaken by the National Industrial Parks Development and Management Company (NIP), a subsidiary of Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC), on Friday.

“We will make all possible efforts to facilitate both local and foreign businessmen. The industrial progress that Pakistan is making is because of the government’s policy of privatisation and public-private partnership,” said Ishratul Ebad Khan.

Governor Sindh directed the City Nazim of Karachi, Syed Mustafa Kamal, who was present at the ceremony, to lay the main road leading to the industrial park instantly, to facilitate the KCIP project and to support healthy business activities in the area.

The government will try its best to help improve the security of industrial areas which cannot be neglected any further after the chaos of Dec 27, 2007, Ebad added.

“We are striving to support the industrial progress of the country, and to facilitate the businessmen and business activities has been our policy. The govt has been pursuing the policy of creating more and more opportunities for employment and to lessen poverty in the country. One window operation was a far cry in our country, but it is very heartening to see projects like these where one window operation is no longer a dream,” he added.

KCIP is a state-of-the-art project which has been developed with the assistance of the internationally renowned Jurong Consultants of Singapore because of their expertise and wide experience

[mounty]

any new news........????

how many industries??? opened

[Tekno Arkitect]

National Industrial Parks: Building Singapore in Pakistan


It turns out that cutting through red tape is tough even for a government-owned entity.
Industrialists in Pakistan frequently complain of the bureaucratic red tape that forces them to pay bribes for routine tasks and the extraordinarily poor infrastructure quality that raises their costs of doing business.
So when Zubair Habib, himself a member of a family that owns a large industrial conglomerate, was asked by the government to help set up the National Industrial Parks Development and Management Company (NIPDMC) – a firm that would create enclaves that would be free from bureaucratic meddling and offer world-class infrastructure – he leapt at the chance. Little did he realise how much frustration he would be taking upon himself.

NIPDMC was created in 2006, as an initiative of then-Industries Minister Jahangir Tareen, himself an industrialist and the owner of JDW Sugar, the largest sugar mill in the country. The plan involved utilising some land owned by the Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (another state-owned entity) in Karachi and building an industrial park that would have state-of-the-art infrastructure.

The company was envisioned as a public-private hybrid. While it is a subsidiary of the PIDC, about 75% of its board members are from the private sector. Its first chairman was Shaukat Tarin, a veteran banker and future finance minister of Pakistan.

In a bid to inculcate market discipline into its capital structure, NIPDMC would be required to raise capital from private investors, for which the company issued a Rs2 billion sukuk (Islamic bond), underwritten by Emirates Global Islamic Bank and covered by a sovereign guarantee.

Yet almost at the outset, the newly-created company began to face challenges.
The land, for instance, turned out to be disputed. The Sindh government claimed that the land had been offered at concessional rates and demanded to be paid the full market price: Rs650 million. This caused the NIPDMC’s plans to come to a complete standstill: if they did not own the land, they could not do anything else.
In August 2006, an agreement was reached with the Sindh government to drop its claims to the land in exchange for a share in NIPDMC’s future profits. But that was not the end of the land saga. It would take almost three years before the land title was finally transferred to NIPDMC in June 2009.

Even once they got the land, they had to persuade the Coast Guard to abandon a watch-post that they had put up on the land.

Up until that time, the NIPDMC management had been working with Sindh government officials to expedite the process and planning the industrial estates that they would create.

NIPDMC commissioned Jurong International – a Singapore-based firm – to create the design and for NESPAK, a state-owned engineering firm, to do the engineering design. By 2009, the power crisis had become acute and the company had decided to offer a dedicated power supply to its customers.
Yet even that turned out to be quite a struggle. It took several months of effort to get the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) to lay a four-kilometre pipeline to the site of the estate in Karachi (paid for by NIPDMC). The company also had to arrange for a water supply to the estate.
But the NIPDMC management did not want to leave anything to chance. They signed an agreement guaranteeing a supply of 14.7 million cubic feet per day of gas to the estate, most of which will be used to fuel the 48-megawatt captive power plant.
Even still, given the chronic gas shortage in the country, the company has factored in at least a three-month disruption in its gas supply into its pricing of the electricity it will sell to its customers.
And then came the Civil Aviation Authority, which declared that the buildings on the estate could not go above a certain height since it was part of an air corridor. It took negotiations with the CAA management to convince them to allow NIPDMC clients to build up.

In essence, NIPDMC has been doing the run-around on behalf of its clients, and before they launch the park (scheduled to be finished by December 2012.)
Clients certainly seem happy.

“This was the cleanest [bribe-free] interaction I have ever had in Pakistan, which is very unusual,” said Nazim Haji, CEO of Aluplas, an aluminium and plastic cone manufacturer that is looking to expand and has bought a plot at NIPDMC’s park in Karachi.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/240213/n...e-in-pakistan/

[Tekno Arkitect]

Karachi: Korangi Creek Industrial Park (KCIP)

Pix: DEC 2012

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First industry to begin construction at Korangi Creek Industrial Park

KARACHI: The ground breaking to precede construction work for the first industry at Korangi Creek Industrial Park (KCIP) is expected to take place in a week’s time as Cantonment Board Korangi Creek (CBKC) is likely to approve construction any day, said a statement on Friday.

Building approval for nine industrial units of different sizes and industrial clusters is awaited, the statement said.

“The project offers entrepreneurs with guaranteed uninterrupted power supply through 48 megawatts captive power plant and all essential utilities like water, gas and telecommunication at their doorstep,” the statement said.

Spreading over an area of 250 acres, the zone is protected with a boundary wall and has a controlled entry and exit system.

To date approximately 75 percent of the total available plots have been sold out while a number of applications are still in the pipeline.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-New...ndustrial-Park