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Summary Textile City will be built in the eastern area of Port Qasim and it will create 80,000 jobs.
Talking to the media on the project, Federal Finance Minister Hafeez Shaikh said it is one of the mega projects of the country which is being built with public-private collaboration and with an estimated initial cost of infrastructure facility of Rs 1.5 billion. It will spread over a covered area of 1250 acres, he said.The minister said Textile City will have 800 plots covering all ancillary units of the textile industry.He said that the Textile City will have 250MW electric supply and will have 20 million gallon of water supply per day.The Executive Committee of National Economic Council will hopefully give its approval next week in this regard, he added.
