Author: Shakeeb Mushtaq
AIT Library Call Number: AIT RSPR no. HS-86-13
Year: 1986
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Research Studies Project Report (M. Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1986
Examination Committee: Hans Detlef Kammeier (Chairperson); Raymon W. Archer, Lakshman S. Yapa (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The establishment of industries outside the major urban centres as a result of decentralization policy implemented by the Government of Pakistan in the early 1970’s is a major concern of the physical planners these days. The objective of the government to achieve population decentralization through industrial industrialization has not been achieved as most of the industries do not provide housing facility to their workers so most of the workers are bound to commute daily to their workplaces. Like other urban centres, Lahore, the second largest metropolitan city in Pakistan is facing the same problem where mass commuting of industrial workers is taking place from central parts to the industrial estate established near Kala Shah Kaku along the National Highway. A study on the feasibility of resettlement of industrial workers was conducted by John (1983) which showed that almost fifty percent of the workers numbering to 7,600 are willing to resettle in the Lahore-Muridke Industrial Corridor near their workplace preferably in Muridke. The study recommended that a plan for the development of Muridke Town should be prepared and phased resettlement of the workers to the town by developing area development schemes should be carried out. Basing on the above recommendation, this study focuses on the preparation of resettlement scheme with an overall framework of an outline development plan. Information on the existing condition of town was gathered from different sources. A broad outline development plan for the town with a planning horizon of 15 years was prepared. The area requirement for various uses in terms of both locational and allocational standards was determined for the estimated target population of 176,000 by the year 2001, which included the natural increase in the existing population and the prospective resettling industrial workers from Lahore. The resettlement of the workers has been ?reposed to take place in three phases. They will be accommodated in the sites and services projects
Scholarship Donor(s): Lahore, Pakistan Canadian International Development Agency Broad Based Development Program (CIDA-BBDP)
Note: A research study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science
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