LAHORE: Chairman Wapda Lt-Gen (r) Engineer Sajjad Ghani on Sunday visited Greater Karachi Bulk Water Supply Scheme (K-IV Project) to review progress on the project.
A spokesman for Wapda informed that the K-IV project envisages to supply 650 million gallon per day (MGD) to Karachi from Keenjhar lake. The project will be completed in two phases. At present, WAPDA is constructing Phase-I, which is scheduled for completion in October 2024.
Phase-I of K-IV Project will supply 260 MGD to Karachi. PC-I cost of the project is Rs126 billion, expenditure till date is Rs40 billion and accumulative progress of 40 per cent has been achieved.
Chairman Wapda was also accompanied by General Manager (Projects) South, Chief Engineer/Project Director K-IV and representatives of the Consultants and the Contractors during the visit.
Lt-Gen (retd) Engr Sajjad Ghani visited in detail several sites of the project and witnessed construction work going on there. The project team briefed the chairman about the progress achieved so far. It was briefed that construction activities are continuing on all eight sites of the project. These sites include intake structure, pumping stations, water conveyance system consisting of pressurized pipes, reservoirs and filtration plants, project offices, colony and the approach road.
The status relating to provision of the funds through Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) was reviewed in detail during the briefing. Besides, the issues about augmentation of water distribution system to be done by the Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation (KWSC) and the power component to be arranged by the Sindh Government, also came under discussion.
K-IV is a project of immense importance for Karachi and the Wapda is striving hard to complete this project in accordance with the schedule. The Chairman maintained that scheduled completion of the project is, however, linked with timely provision of the funds.
He said that arrangement of the power component and augmentation of the water distribution system as per the plan are also equally important, so that the people of Karachi could benefit from the project. He directed the project management to keep close liaison with all stakeholders for completion of K-IV Project as early as possible.
