10,000 Call Center Seats and IT Tower in Karachi
Thursday, June 19, 2008 13:55In 1965, when cities like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Kuala Lumpur, Riadh and Bangkok without even any 10-storied buildings, the 25 storied Habib Bank Plaza of Karachi was a sign of brisk future of the city. But, the country’s capital was shifted from Karachi to Islamabad in 1963, letting Karachi down in development projects, with a ban on establishing new industries or erecting tall buildings.
You have to admit that when Mustafa Kamal took over as the Nazim of Karachi, you’ve seen more work in the past 2 years, than in the past several decades. Sure we laugh and criticize the dug up roads and the ambitious plans but for those that believe that with the right infrastructure in place, progress and success shall prevail.
But perhaps the reason for writing an article to talk about Karachi on this site is the plan on Karachi’s 47-storey IT Tower, which is meant to become the tallest building of Pakistan, after its completion. The mega project will offer 10,000 call seats, children amusement park, a parking lot for 2500 cars, a 5-star hotel of 1500 rooms, commercial centers/offices, restaurants, auditorium with a capacity of 3000 people, small conference halls and other international executive facilities.
This huge project will boost economic, commercial and industrial activities ion Pakistan besides making a revolution in the field of science and technology. Some 12 crore rupees will be spent on the training of 2,000 youth to work in the call center, out of which 2 crore rupees will be given by the City Government and the rest 10 crores will be funded by a consortium of investors. 50%of the call seats would be reserved for women. The trade activities and products of Pakistan would be on display to the entire world through movie. The businesspersons and industrialists would be able to introduce their products here at a very low cost.
More than 11,000 young people have so far interviewed for the training openings. Two thousands have been selected on merit and will be given 6-month training on the curricula, prepared by PAF. The apprentices would be ready by the time the project is completed.
According to the City Nazim, Mustafa Kamal says, that “we have no dearth of talented youth, but for the moment, we do not have trained ones. That is why CDGK has decided to train these youngsters. You give them skills today, tomorrow they will give your economy the necessary boost it needs.”
No doubt, Bangalore (India) has become another Silicon Valley where thousands of engineers and IT experts engage in business each year. On one hand, India is fast capturing major share in the world software market while it also earns billions of dollars as foreign exchange only by meeting high demand of computer professionals around the world. Investors from all around the world are now looking to invest huge capital in India because of cheap human resource and availability of expert computer professionals.
Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan is called, “Mini Pakistan.” While many deem the project of the IT Tower overly ambitious, I can’t help but think it’s a big step in the right direction.
kamran says:
June 27th, 2008 at 7:56 am
I was a Student of cdgk training ist batch organized by En-Sign,ensign company just taking money & making fool student are not satisfy,other company should take join the project, they did not proper call centre training practiclly, english book already taken from all student, student do not have book,return to all book, Ensign taking a lot of money CDGK but there is no feslites,CDGK & your organization should take action