DHA CITY Karachi Deveopment Work Assessed By City Manangement

[Salman]

Karachi

A group of officers visited the site of DHA’s upcoming residential-cum-commercial project ‘DHA City Karachi’ (DCK) on the Super Highway on Thursday.

Project Director DCK, Brig Muhammad Rafique while briefing the visitors said that the DCK area was abuzz with intensive development activities as one could see excavators, graders, bulldozers and tractors working all around.

A large number of contractors including FWO and NLC have already mobilised in the area and more than 3,000 committed workforce is engaged in the ongoing development activities, he said.

The DCK is being developed in accordance with a versatile development strategy. The projects of Immediate Action Plan including DCK boundary wall, watch towers, central entrance gate, DCK directorate, visitors’ centre, DCK central facility building and staff accommodation are near completion while the sector development works under the ‘short term development plan’ have already been initiated to make DCK a livable entity by the year 2015-16, Brig Rafique said.

The work on the construction of road network in the area is being undertaken on priority. Two wind masts have also been installed at DCK for recording the wind data to be utilised for generation of renewable wind energy, he added.

According to him, planning for development of solar energy and independent power generation is also afoot which would make DCK self-sufficient in energy requirement.