Punjab gets lion’s share in CPEC projects
ISLAMABAD: Punjab is to benefit most from the projects starting under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), statistics shared with the Parliament revealed.
At present, 53 per cent of the total projects are being assigned to Punjab. The provincial government has deployed 6,346 security personnel for the protection of 3,754 Chinese nationals.
According to official statistics, out of the total of 330 projects under CPEC, 176 are in Punjab while only eight projects have been allocated for Balochistan.
I can sense how illogical drama this article will start on here by a few. So I thought I'd add some clarity:
1) Projects these big, always want to return on investment quicker. In other words, if there was a project like this in the US, and a road infrastructure was to go through NY, NJ, CT and Delaware, NY would get the most of it initially. Why? Because of the existing infrastructure, well running GDP and businesses and qualified labor already available.
Then, the first phase would achieve its value realization (jobs, economic growth, etc). And other lower established areas will have infrastructure being put in place for their growth, why benefits have been realized by where they can, quickly. In other words, you always try to "capture low hanging fruit", and not run to the top of the tree right away as it takes more time and resources.
2) Larger population and existing GDP: initial phases will always be put in places where the population and associated GDP is larger. Doesn't mean all others will stay in the cave-men's time. So if you put anything in Gawader, you don't have the infrastructure around there, so as you build infrastructure, you put phase I of say manufacturing in areas with higher labor and gdp, for quick returns. In the meantime, Gawader would have the infrastructure put in and it would start to attract businesses and people. But you don't sit around idle for those 5-10 years, until Gawader or whatever city reach that capacity.
These are things considered "Urban Planning 101". But per my experience, there are people on here who'd just hate any or every progress and would bi*tch about everything that helps a common person!!
if adding that power to National grid is the main plan then why would they be setup near the DESCOs? The point of setting these plants near the target cities is to reduce the transmission cost of setting them remotely and then routing their electricity through NTDC to DESCOs.
Absolutely correct. Urban Planning means, you create Urban Cities for the future that can sustain themselves by themselves, whether its their local economy, safety, infrastructure, etc, etc. So in a true Urban Planning model like you see in the US specifically, each City is an entity by herself, gives incentives to the business, has a local Cable, Internet and Wifi company, has local School System which is linked to the State, but run on locally paid taxes. Same goes with roads and electric infrastructure. Each city has its own CEO, CFO, CIO, Courts, Police, Electric, School and Hospital system which is run on the local population's taxes. That is the idea.
In Pakistan's case, if you have transmission lines linked, but 80% of them supporting a local 20-30 mile radius of one or two local cities, imagine how much electric theft can be controlled as everything is closely monitored. And there is staff available from each city to help monitor and control electric consumption, needs and growth plans for their city. Some cities would produce excess electric and can sell to others.
Here comes another ding dong.
Yea, there are a LOT of those on here
. You just wonder if they ever went to a real school or if they did, were they asleep throughout their classes
. These people defy common sense and logic like someone would defy the Gravity!!
