SAINDAK COPPER GOLD - The Saindak
Copper Gold project will have capacity to
produce over 12500 tons 'raw copper' daily.
MRDL, a Chinese company, is doing the whole
work. To ensure successful implementation of
the mega project modern machinery, including
rushers, smelters and other plants have been
installed in addition to a 50 MW powerhouse.
GWADAR INDUSTRIAL ESTATE - The
Balochistan government has provided 3,000
acres for Gwadar Industrial Estate. First
phase of Gwadar Industrial estate has been
completed. There will be approximately 2,000
industrial units in the Gwadar Industrial
Estate providing employment to 30,000
workers. The federal government is urgently
providing special Rs700 million funding to
Balochistan to help meet 15 year water
demand of the Gwadar Industrial Estate (GIE)
through the installation of a foreign
assembled desalination plant.
POWER GENERATION - A number of
electric power generation projects are also
being carried out in Gwadar and in its
surroundings.The Quetta electric supply
Company (QESCO), a subsidiary of the Wapda
has geared up the work for building the
power transmission line. It is
expected to be completed soon.
RAILWAYS - Railway Minister Sheikh
Rashid Ahmad has said “The government is
focusing on laying the Havelian-Kashghar
(China) and
Quetta Qandhar (Afghanistan) railway tracks.
In 2006, Ministry of railways announced that
Gwadar will be connected to Pakistan
railways network at an expected cost of $
1.25 billion (Rs. 75-billion).
DRY PORT - China wants to set up a
dry port near the Pakistan-China border, so
that western China could also benefit from
the Gwadar seaport and it will create a
ribbon of economic activity and hundreds of
new jobs along the proposed highway linking
Gwadar with the Karakoram highway in the
north.
GWADAR COAST CENTRE (GCC) - The
Baluchistan Govt. and a UAE firm HRC signed
an agreement under which Gwadar Coast Centre
(GCC) would be established for the
development of the port city. The mega
project would be established at 2000 acres
of land that would generate over 10,000
jobs. GCC would invest $3.2 billion. Three
coast centres were already working in Norway
and one in U.S.A. The project would be
completed by 2014. The project would help
making Gwadar a big international port city.