INTERCITY BUS TERMINAL TO GET 80 WAREHOUSES.

Karachi. June 11: City District Government Karachi will construct 80 warehouses inside the terminal for Balochistan bound buses located at Yousuf Goth, Baldia Town. These warehouses would be completed within next four months with an estimated cost of Rs. 80million. The project would also include the installation of power generator costing Rs.5million.

This has been decided during a meeting held under the chairmanship of City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal and attended by Managing Director KWSB Qutubuddin Shaikh, EDO Transport Iftikhar Qaimkhani, officers of city government and water board. A delegation consisting transporters using intercity bus terminal also attended the meeting and gave a detailed briefing about the problems faced by them at the terminal.

They said that nearly 12 thousand passengers daily using this terminal while travelling to and from Balochistan. Transporters were facing difficulties due to the shortage of warehouses while they also have problems of water, sewerage and electricity.

It was decided in the meeting that the bus terminal urgently required at least 80 warehouses costing Rs.80million. City Government and Transporters will construct these warehouses under 50 percent share in the total expenditures incurred on the project.

City Nazim on this occasion directed EDO Transport to invite tenders for the construction of warehouses at urgent basis so that construction work at the terminal could start at the earliest and the completed warehouses could be handed over to transporters within next four months.
He said that the future requirement of water at bus terminal had also been assessed and the water supply has been planned to cater the needs of water for the next 20 years.

“Today the terminal needs 2.5million gallon water daily while the pipeline laid for this bus terminal would have a capacity of 6million gallon water daily and already 90 percent of work on it has been finished,” he added.

Nazim Karachi also instructed M.D KWSB to take the measures for installation of water meters at the bus terminal and the repair of sewerage lines on immediate basis.

He also directed EDO Works & Services to urgently install the power generator at the bus terminal so that the electricity problems could be solved.

He also said that he would visit this terminal within a week and expressed hope that many of the problems currently facing the transporters would have solved by then.

Nazim Karachi said that city government was paying special attention to this terminal as this bus terminal was serving thousands of passengers daily while it also give first impression of Karachi to people coming from other province.

He also pledged to make this bus terminal beautiful and to equip it with all the facilities.

Nazim Karachi said that Haq Parast City Government has paid special attention on the transport sector and has done concrete works to solve the transport problems of the city.

He said that 50 CNG buses would start plying on the city roads from next month as we have already done all homework for their induction in the transport system. These buses will not be withdrawn and continue to run on the city routes unlike past when these buses were ceased to operate in the city or were running in other cities.