Only 3 CPEC projects in Gwadar completed | The Express Tribune

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• having value of over $300 million

• hree China-Pakistan Economic Corridor projects in Gwadar

• one-dozen schemes costing nearly $2 billion remain unfinished including water supply and electricity provision, according to the CPEC Authority.

• According to the CPEC Authority, the progress review of the projects revealed that all the schemes having socio-economic benefits for Gwadar – considered as the crown jewel of CPEC – were falling behind their original completion schedules.

• So far, only three schemes have been declared completed by the CPEC Authority, including $4 million Gwadar Smart Port City Master Plan, which cannot be called a project.

• The other two schemes are the Physical Infrastructure of Gwadar Port and the Free Zone Phase-1 costing $300 million and Pak-China Technical and Vocational Institute that has been built with a $10 million Chinese grant.

• Even there is no indigenous electricity for the port, as the country imports power from Iran to meet the city’s energy needs.

• The $179 million Eastbay Expressway – a road link connecting the port with free zone and the city – that should have been completed a few years ago, is still shown as an under-implementation scheme, although on documents the project is 99% completed.

• Work on necessary facilities like fresh water treatment, water supply and distribution network project worth $72 million is still 65% completed.

• The New Gwadar International Airport which, too, should have been completed a few years ago, remained under the implementation stage and hardly 36% work was done on the scheme, according to the CPEC Authority.

• Hardly 20% work was finished on the $100 million Pak-China Friendship Hospital, Gwadar