Construction of Karachi Garment City: National

National Assembly Standing Committee on Textile Industry met in Karachi on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Khawaja Ghulam Rasool Koreja, MNA. A statement issued here said that it discussed the issue of allotment of land for the Karachi Garment City with the Land Utilisation Department, Government of Sindh.It said that the Committee was informed that the federal government has released Rs 300 million but there is a dispute between Pakistan Steel Mills, Government of Sindh and the Textile City regarding provision of land.The Committee expressed concern over the non-provision of land for the construction of Karachi Garment City.The Committee directed the Ministry to invite the Chief Secretary Sindh along with Deputy Commissioner concerned to brief the Committee on the said issue at the next meeting.The Committee also directed that representative of Steel Mills and Secretary Industries should also becalled in the next meeting so that matter could be resolved at the earliest.The Chairman, Pakistan Textile City Limited (PTCL) briefed the Committee about the problem faced by its management regarding establishment of Textile City.The Committee decided to approach Prime Minister Secretariat for the supply of natural gas in textile city.The statement further pointed out that the Committee also found misappropriation in the construction of water pipeline as out of 24 KM only 3.5 KM line was constructed with the huge amount of Rs 700 million.It said that the Committee directed the management of PTCL to submit the complete break-up of the project to the Standing Committee in its next meeting.The following MNAs Sardar Muhammad Shafqat Hayat Khan, Rana Umer Nazir Khan, Haji Muhammad Akram Ansari, Mian Shahid Hussain Khan Bhatti, Malik Shakir Bashir Awan, Jamshaid Ahamd Dasti, Romina Khurshid Alam were presentin the meeting.News SourceNews Collated byPAKISSAN.com