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Watson's Hotel (actually Watson's Esplanade Hotel), now known as the Esplanade Mansion, located in the Kala Ghoda area of Mumbai (Bombay), is India's oldest surviving cast iron building. [1] It is probably the oldest surviving multi-level fully cast-iron framed building in the world, being three years earlier than the Menier Chocolate Factory ...
The industrial parks in Karachi are areas developed specifically for exclusively industrial activity in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The industrial parks manufacture consumer and industrial goods, creating jobs for the local population. An industrial park (also known as industrial estate, trading estate) is an area zoned and planned for the ...
This list of tallest buildings and structures in the Indian subcontinent (South Asia) ranks skyscrapers and structures in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, based upon height.
There are a total of 10 industrial estates, each one of them called SITE, located in Karachi, Sindh and in other major cities of the province. Sindh Industrial and Trading Estate zone is providing employment to more than 1/2 million people. [3] [5] The objective and aim is to boost the industrialization in the province of Sindh. [3]
Karachi's urban area also includes six cantonments, which are administered directly by the Pakistani military, and include some of Karachi's most desirable real-estate. Key civic bodies, such as the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board and KBCA (Karachi Building Control Authority), among others, are under the direct control of the Government of ...
Pakistan Steel Mills is the current largest industrial corporation undertaking having a production capacity of 1.1—5.0 million tonnes [2] of steel and iron foundries. Built with the contributions of the Soviet Union in the 1970s, it is the largest industrial mega corporation complex, [3] vastly expanded in an enormous dimensions construction inputs, involving the use of 1.29Mn cubic meters ...
1932– Karachi Municipal Corporation Building inaugurated. 1933 Karachi Cotton Association incorporated. [8] [23] Rotary Club established. [24] November: Jamshed Nusserwanjee Mehta becomes first elected Mayor of Karachi. [25] 1934 - August: Teakum Dass Vadhumull becomes Mayor of Karachi. [25] 1935 - May: Qazi Khuda Buksh becomes Mayor of ...
The Sindh Industrial & Trading Estate was established in 1947 and has grown into the largest industrial area in Pakistan with more than 2,000 industrial units on 4,500 acres (18 km 2) of land west of the Lyari River. The estate benefits from the proximity of the Port of Karachi and various roads linking to the rest of Pakistan. The town grew up ...