Slow Pace of Civilian Clean up / Road / Train and Rain Water Passage Project

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

REAL STORY​

Slow Pace of Civilian Clean up / Road / Train and Rain Water Passage Project

Karachi , after many years finally got a 2 Billion Dollar Package from PTI Government
After many years Prime Minister stepped it up and forced Sindh Government to start clean up projects
with a injected funding of direct projects and direct oversight demands over projects.


After much reluctance , finally we seen some projects start in Karachi , however these are just my observations after observing the status of these projects in Pakistan based on following criteria

a) The Pace of Effort / Work
b) Often the man power activated on project is very Limited
c) Projects are Time based (where it can get extensions), and not Lump Sum Money based
d) The cleanup , repair sites often look more devastated then before a project started

SINDH GOVERNMENT BUILDER PERFORMANCE

Reference:
1- KCR Railway Project

Example while online on video we can see many companies in UK and China are able to lay tracks , brand new , and also constructed brand new surroundings in record amount of time usually spanning few month. Yet he KCR project in Karachi has continued to linger at a very turtle pace. China views projects in term of "Hours of work" , In Pakistan the Project is seen as "Days of Work" . Often dust is floating around the tracks , and no effort is made to beautify the tracks , no plants are being sowed , no green grass is being laid across the tracks, No modern fencing work is being done

Conclusion:
The station / tracks / Surrounding appear to be showcase something from 1965 being just polished up a little bit
The staff making the Bogies and carts for train are doing excellent work still older design but decent work

2- Land Reclaim belonging to Railways , Demolishing of Illegal Housing , Extending the Water Draining Canal Karachi

The most visible thing is the Chaos , houses are being demolished , no one has ensured the population has been relocated 100% as you still see illegal residents walking around the demolishing zone. Children are walking collecting garbage.
There is lack of usage of heavy machinery in Abundance. Often we see 1-2 odd machines taking days and days , just to demolish 1 illegal buildings. Again this showcases the slow pace of change. The contractor who won the award to demolish and reconstruct , Can't even activate 100-200 Bull Dozers to quickly demolish. Then often we see these bull dozers , dumping the Cement from houses broken into the Canal further blocking the water flow instead of immediately having Trucks come in to take the rubble away from demolishing zone to further break down and recycle material. All in all the whole region looks worse then Syrian War Disaster. Again we see signs that the "PACE" of work is slow. China could construct a whole hospital in 12-13 days , and Pakistani Demolishing workers can't demolish 1 tiny Villa in over 3-4 weeks



Conclusion:
Technology is not used

No focus exist to complete finish the work in a Lum Sum project deal where the Contractor company has to hire lot of workers to get work done FASTEST way possible

PRIVATE BUILDER PERFORMANCE

Note it is important to note only 20-30 KM away from Karachi lies Bahria Town Society , which is a Private Builder's city
> They have buses (Double Decker)
> They have Water Drainage Lakes , Canals
> They also have fantastic plantation and trees
> They also have stunning views for Villa

Same Pakistan , they just hire proper Engineering Firms to get things done with Quality and Fast Performance