Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar said that women’s participation in the industrial process would strengthen the provincial economy.
He was talking to a delegation of Bahawalpur Women Chamber of Commerce & Industry, led by its President Sherry Arshad Khan on Wednesday. He said that the development of the industrial sector has been fully focused by the government and six special economic zones were being established in the province. Four more special economic zones will be notified soon and it was for the first time that SEZs were being established in backward districts of the province. The comprehensive industrial development policy was bearing positive fruit, he added.
The chief minister disclosed that a programme has been devised by the Punjab government to provide soft loans to the youth and women have also been included in it. The loan conditions have been eased more for the women, he added.
He said that the office of Punjab Board of Investment & Trade will also be established in southern Punjab. Meanwhile, instructions have been issued to release funds for bone marrow transplant centre in Bahawal Victoria Hospital in Bahawalpur. The industrial development will boost employment opportunities in southern Punjab.
The problems being faced by Bahawalpur Women Chamber of Commerce & Industry will be solved on priority basis and opening of its sub-office in Lahore will be examined as well, he added. The chief minister welcomed the proposal of holding Rohi Mela in Bahawalpur and assured all our cooperation as such carnivals help in the promotion of local handicrafts. He asked the businesswomen to take benefit of investment opportunities as conducive environment was provided for trade and investment.
Sherry Arshad Khan said that it was a matter of pride for them that Chief Minister Usman Buzdar belonged to southern Punjab. Mussarat Jamshed Cheema MPA, LDA Vice-Chairman Sheikh Muhammad Imran and others were also present on this occasion.
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He has directed to immediately start trees plantation in this park adding that this project should be operationalised as soon as possible to provide quality recreational facilities to the people of southern Punjab.
