Comprehensive Analysis of Existing Infrastructure Conditions Correlating Ship-Breaking Activities and its Implications on Workers and Community a Case Study of Gaddani Town and Ship-Breaking Industry, Baluchistan, Pakistan

Abstract

Ship-breaking activities are facing numerous challenges while at the same time providing considerable opportunities and employment creation in a holistic manner. This research paper is an attempt to discover existing conditions whether satisfactory or beyond it and their implications on the community living in the vicinities of Ship-Breaking industry including the workers that work and live in the yards. The study is paced to collect sufficient evidences to support the assumptions, therefore, Firsthand knowledge and ancillary data sources are taken in account. Analysis has unveiled that the populace living in the study area is bereaved even from the basic necessities of life, vulnerable to health risks and diseases, and facing physical hazards due to working in risky environment. Furthermore, it is also discovered that the populace in Gaddani is uncommonly migrant front different parts of Pakistan namely Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Interior Baluchistan region, Sindh, and Interior Punjab where employment opportunities are very limited specifically for lower and lower-middle class. Considering the positive role of Ship-breaking in national economy, basic facilities should be improved and provided to minimize the negative implications to promote one of the biggest South-Asian Ship-Breaking Industry.