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Pakistan improving sanitation way faster than India: Study
By IANS | 9 May, 2015, 01.57PM IST
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NEW YORK: Pakistan has left India far behind in terms of improving water and sanitation access for their citizens, reveals a new performance index released on Friday.

While Pakistan was ranked five in the new index developed by The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health in the US, India occupied an unenviable 92nd position.

High-performing countries for 2015 are those that achieved significant improvement in recent years compared to their peers. Low-performing countries are those that showed stagnation or decline in recent years compared to their peers.

India's ranking as a bottom-performer predates the recent launch of the " Clean India Mission" by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Sub-Saharan Africa countries including Mali, South Africa, and Ethiopia are also among the top performers world-wide in spite of modest resources, according to the WaSH Performance Index that evaluates ..

Other high performers include China, El Salvador, Niger, Egypt, and Maldives. Conversely, Russia, the Philippines and Brazil were bottom performers .

The index compares countries of all sizes and income levels. Using this method, the report revealed that a country's gross domestic product did not determine performance in improving water and sanitation for its citizens.

"This means that even countries with limited resources can make great strides if they have the right programs in place," said co-author of the report Jamie Bartram, director of The Water Institute at UNC.

"National governments, NGOs, and aid agencies can direct their resources toward building systems and capacity for action in countries that are lagging, and toward implementation where those capacities are in place and performing," Bartram noted.


First export ship to embark on journey from Gwadar Port


ISLAMABAD: The first consignment, comprising fish exports, is expected to depart from Gwadar Port on Monday, formally kicking off commercial activities, said Federal Secretary for Ports and Shipping Khalid Pervez.

The Chinese Overseas Ports Holding Company is responsible for operation of the port; officials from the company would be present on the occasion along with others including Federal Minister for Ports and Shipping Kamran Micheal.

On Sunday, the Chinese Overseas Shipping Company (COSCO) will bring empty containers to the port before they will be loaded with fish, marking the formal inauguration of export from the deep sea port.

The Chinese have taken control of the activities for export of their products to Central Asian countries and Middle East in the long run, part of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Project, which was recently kicked off by Chinese President Xi Jinping during his last-month visit to Pakistan.

Import activity from the Gwadar Port began in 2009. Since then, cargoes containing fertilisers and wheat have been imported through this port by the government.

However, the private sector has yet to start its export/import from the Gwadar Port, hindered because of the connecting roads being under construction. The Economic Coordination Committee of cabinet had decided in 2009 that the Trading Corporation of Pakistan(TCP) should use Gwadar for the import of wheat and fertiliser via the newly establish port aimed at starting the operation gradually.

A senior officer in the Ministry of Ports and Shipping said that the Gwadar Port has been given to the Chinese company on the basis of the ‘Land Lord Port Concept’ on 9% gross revenue for the next 40 years. He explained that the company will pay Pakistan from its gross revenue and not on the net profit.

The officer said that at this stage, fish cargo can only be exported via Gwadar port as there are only fish processing factories in the area.

The officer believed that it will take decades for the port to become profitable due to the geographical location of Gwadar.

Port Qasim, he mentioned, had become formally operational in 1979 and reached its breakeven point after two decades despite being situated in the business and industrial hub of the country.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 10th, 2015.
 
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This is the Elevated track for Metro Bus

Hazara Express on approach to Rawalpindi Railway Station while Mareer Metro Stop can be seen in the background

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Italian company SELEX to install baggage conveyor system at New Islamabad International Airport


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Bids for construction of LRR loop to be sought tomorrow

LAHORE: The Lahore Ring Road Authority is set to advertise requests for proposals (RFPs) from construction companies for three packages of the southern loop of the Lahore Ring Road on Monday (tomorrow).

A senior LRRA official told The Express Tribune that bids would be received till June 30.

He said in the first phase companies would be shortlisted based on their expressions of interest (EOI). There technical and financial proposals would be reviewed later, he said.

The official said the contract would be awarded to by end of July. He said the company would be required to complete construction in two years.

The construction of the three southern loop packages had been approved by the Planning and Development Department in end April.

The meeting had decided that the project would be undertaken in a build and transfer (BT) mode rather than the built, lease and transfer (BLT) mode approved earlier. Under the BT mode, the ownership of the LRR southern loop would be transferred to the Lahore Ring Road Authority at the completion of its construction (in about two years).

The LRRA would be responsible for the maintenance and operation (collection of toll). This would save Rs29 billion earlier earmarked as a lump-sum payment to the construction company for maintenance.

Under the revised plan, the LRRA would pay back the construction cost in eight years at a 17-percent rate of interest.

Under the BLT mode, the ownership of the southern loop would have stayed with the construction company for 18 years after construction. The company would have leased the road to the government for toll collection.

The meeting had also decided to construct service lanes on both sides of the road for only a five-kilometre stretch to bring down the construction cost from Rs54 billion to Rs35 billion.

Package details

Of the three packages of the southern loop, package 1 (9.35 kilometre) will connect the northern loop in Defence Housing Authority with Ferozepur Road; Package 2 (13 km) will connect Ferozepur Road at Gajju Matta to Adda Plot; and Package 3 (8km) will run from Adda Plot to Multan Road.
 
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