The control of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is rich in different minerals. There is also marble in them. Hundreds of factories are operating in the area, where the marble is supplied to the market in the form of beautiful ornate designs, but due to the problems faced during the stages from the extraction of marble to its design in the factories, it is worth crores of rupees.
In a later assembly of the Board of Chiefs of the Uncommon Financial Zone Specialist chaired by Chief Serve Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan, the standard working strategies for the specialist were affirmed. The assembly too endorsed the status of Mohmand Marble City as Uncommon Financial Zone and bought an extra 2000 sections of land for this reason.
It may be specified that Mohmand Financial Zone covers a region of 350 sections of land in which 106 plots out of 290 plots of distinctive categories have as of now been distributed whereas 132 KV lattice stations set up for control supply to businesses.
The marble industry is the fifth biggest industry in Pakistan, utilizing millions of individuals. Malagori Marble is the biggest marble industry in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with 276 marble production lines. On the other hand, more than ten thousand specialists are specifically and in a roundabout way utilized. Each plant produces a normal 35,000 square feet of marble per month. Each manufacturing plant here pays 75,000 mineral charges per month to the government exchequer whereas Rs 30 million is collected month to month from the industry for power.
Distinctive sorts of marble from the Lagori marble industry are provided to distinctive cities and markets of the nation. In addition, there’s an awesome request for Malagori marble in Afghanistan and the Inlet nations and the individuals there are especially fascinated by it. According to experts, there are 7,000 million tons of marble stores within the mountains of Khyber, Mohmand and Bajaur areas. Speaking in this respect, geologist Noor Islam Malaguri said that Ziarat Marble is a moment as it were to Italy in terms of quality. Ziarat marble is more glossy and durable than other marble, whereas Malaguri marble has the capacity to supply more cooling and its request is additionally expanding.
The government needs to present-day apparatus to anticipate the misfortune of marble, which can get rid of the method of impacting. Due to the need for cutting-edge apparatus within the nation, 85% of marble is being squandered in collecting. This strategy is nearly out of date around the world since of the colossal sum of marble squandered, the misfortune of marble amid extraction is 45% around the world and endeavors are being made to decrease this rate to 2.5%. But tragically in our nation, this rate is 85%, as on the off chance that 100 tons of marble are extricated from a mine each day, at that point 85 tons of it is misplaced. Marble could be a valuable blessing of nature to the territory and the tribal local. The government, tribal senior citizens, mine, and production line proprietors must work together to define a modern methodology in this respect. Present-day preparation of mine workers and laborers may be a matter of time. Modern logical strategies will have to be adopted to extricate marble, stack shedding problems will have to be fathomed whereas unused markets will have to be found for shipment. There’s no reason why Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA seem not to gain billions of rupees every year from the marble industry alone.
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