Govt Approves Gwadar Smart City Master Plan

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Govt Approves Gwadar Smart City Master Plan

Posted 28 mins ago by Ahsan Gardezi

According to the Federal Secretary Maritime Affairs, Rizwan Ahmed, the government has approved the Gwadar Smart City Master Plan. According to reports, Gwadar’s economic output is expected to exceed $30 billion, while creating up to 1.2 million jobs for skilled workers.


Rizwan Ahmed briefed the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in a meeting chaired by MNA, Munazza Hassan, regarding a tentative review audit for the Maritimes Division. According to reports, all audit objections for the year 2009 were closed, and proceedings adjourned for new projects.


The Federal Secretary Maritime Affairs suggested that within the next three to four years, Gwadar will facilitate Central Asian countries, including Afghanistan, with China already in the Trade Belt mix. The Master Plan reportedly mentioned the establishment of international exhibition centers, theme parks, luxury resorts, botanical gardens, and museums in a thriving modern city.


The city will attract high paid jobs, as the government is keen to provide a tax-free environment. Pakistan’s largest international airport has been inaugurated, high-tech industries will be established, and mega shopping malls, luxury resorts, and manmade islands will change the national outlook.


According to reports, the Master Plan includes a $5 billion investment into Gwadar’s power sector for 15 new power plants, a $1 billion kitty to generate 700,000 cubic meters of fresh water through desalination plants, a central business district, and a manmade island.

Gwadar will require some 15,800 new homes by 2025, 47,600 by 2030, and 254,500 by 2050, according to the new Gwadar Smart City Master Plan.

Govt Approves Gwadar Smart City Master Plan

According to the Federal Secretary Maritime Affairs, Rizwan Ahmed, the government has approved the Gwadar Smart City Master Plan. According

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[shi12jun]

Gwadar is very promising and should be built into a modern metropolis in Pakistan

 

[Imran Khan]

 

[Asian.Century]

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Pakistan are taking it so slow in developing Gwadar city.

 

[El Sidd]

Will the data be available for public?

Government should look to build a passive city or net zero city.

Smart cities are a vague term.

 

[peagle]

Pakistan are taking it so slow in developing Gwadar city.

You do realize, CPEC kick-started just 5 years ago, centered around Gwadar, a poor city, in a poor area, based in a far corner of Pakistan, the next major city closest to Gwadar is at least 700km away. Please recognize the task at hand.

They are building a new major city and developing a national and a regional plan, which will take time. There is no magic wand for that, except planning, effort, and time.

I wouldn't expect to see any major visible effects at least till 2030. There has never been a comparable project anywhere in the world before this, other projects have been a lot smaller and yet taken a lot longer.

Dubai has been under development since the 1980s, that's nearly 40 years to bring it where it is now, they didn't have similar issues, plus they had free oil money to spend as they wished. Criticism is good, but please let's be fair.

 

[LeGenD]

Will the data be available for public?

Government should look to build a passive city or net zero city.

Smart cities are a vague term.

Following Pakistani study is helpful in understanding the bold part: http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/csas/PDF/8_v33_2_18.pdf



There are scholarly works which can help understand complex issues and help steer this country forward but these works are not a part of Media discourses and coverage. So how would people know? Priorities...

 

[El Sidd]

Following Pakistani study is helpful in understanding the bold part: http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/csas/PDF/8_v33_2_18.pdf



There are scholarly works which can help understand complex issues and help steer this country forward but these works are not a part of Media discourses and coverage. So how would people know? Priorities...

The monopoly in this business should be investigated as well as the numbers that get reported.

Definition of a smart city is subject to how government define it. Government of Pakistan has no regulations or standards to qualify energy data of any structure.

 

[LeGenD]

The monopoly in this business should be investigated as well as the numbers that get reported.

Definition of a smart city is subject to how government define it. Government of Pakistan has no regulations or standards to qualify energy data of any structure.

I see your point.

My view in very simple terms: "a city which have the capacity and flexibility to live up to expectations of its inhabitants is SMART; inclusive model in short."

 

[El Sidd]

I see your point.

My view in very simple terms: "a city which have the capacity and flexibility to live up to expectations of its inhabitants is SMART; inclusive model in short."

There's academic definition of a term and then there is legal definition of a term.

A city declared smart in one territory may fail the requirements of the other territory's set standards for connectivity and carbon footprint or net carbon emissions.

It's a world of its own this term.