• Pakistan
     - BackGround
     - Leather Industry

 • Enviornmental Act of Pakistan

 • Kasoor City
     - Geographical BackGround
     - Tanning Industry

 • Project Introduction

 • Project Detail
     - Effluent Treatment Plant
     - Chromium Recovery Plant
     - Social Sector Of KTPC
     - Cleaner Technology

 • Project Brief
     - Cost Sharing and Funding
     - Financial Viability
     - Objective
     - Project Beneficieries

  • Tanning
     - Process
     - Chrome Tanning

 • Tannery Waste Treatment
     - Water Pollution Equipment
 
  

KASUR TANNERIES POLLUTION CONTROL PROJECT (KTPC)
  - A DOCUMENTARY

Pakistan is administratively subdivided into four provinces: Punjab, Sindh. Northwest Frontier Province (NW'FP) and Baluchistan, as well as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The mid-1994 population is estimated at about 128 million people, growing at about 2.9 per cent per annum. As an indicator of poverty, 40 % of households received only I 8 % of total income (I 994-85). Only 37 % of the adult population were literate in 1994. This is below the average of 42 % for South Asia and 60 % for third world countries. Availability of health services is limited to 55 % of the population, safe water to 45 % and sanitation to 20% of the population (1985-88, UNDP Balanced Development Report, 1992 p.2). With its human development indicators, Pakistan ranks 120th out of 160 countries and clearly falls in the low human development category.
Pakistan's per capita GNP was $430 in 1993 - approximately on a par with China, above India and Bangladesh and below the Philippines and Indonesia. Pakistan's per capita GDP was $460 in 1993, of which 25 % was contributed by agriculture (including forestry and fishing), 25 % by industry and 50% by utilities, construction, trade and services.
In 1991-92, about 47 % of the employed labor force were working in agriculture (including forestry. and fishing) as against 24 % in industry (including mining and quarrying), and 29 % in utilities, construction and trade.

Pakistan's economic performance has been impressive during the last decade. The GNP growth rate has averaged 6 per cent. Agricultural production has increased at the rate of 4,3 per cent, while the manufacturing sector has expanded annually by 7,2 per cent. Per capita income has increased by over 2 per cent per annum and the proportion of households below the poverty line has declined.

The economic performance of Pakistan has not been achieved without producing significant social distortions and considerable damage to the environment. Consequently, a number of infrastructural bottlenecks have emerged especially in power, transport and communications. Municipal investments have also lagged behind and the quality of service provision has declined. This adversely affected the quality of life in the urban areas. Levels of pollution, congestion, crime and violence have increased in most of the metropolitan cities. Simultaneously, there has been little improvement in social indicators like the literacy rate, infant mortality rate and life expectancy.