Staff Reporter Lahore
Punjab Minister for Industries & Trade Mian Aslam Iqbal while giving in-principle approval of expansion in Sundar Industrial Estate has directed to devise and submit a feasible model in the next meeting.
He was chairing a meeting at Civil Secretariat on Friday to review colonization of industrial estates under PAEDMC by providing the necessary infrastructure. Secretary Industries Wasif Khurshid, Chairman PAEDMC Syed Nabeel Hashmi, CEO Javed Ilyas, board member Arif Qasim and others attended the meeting.
The meeting was told that 71 new industrial units have been established in Sundar Industrial Estate during the last one year while Nabeel Hashmi informed that a paid internship programme is being started.
Mian Aslam Iqbal expressed the satisfaction that work is in progress on Quaid-i-Azam Business Park in Sheikhupura. He also directed that construction of the interchange, labour colony, business centre and provision of necessary infrastructure should be completed within the timeline as it would expedite the colonization of industrial estates.
The provincial minister said that it is sanguine that the industrialization process has been expedited due to the investor-friendly policies and the ease of doing business approach of the PTI government. Meanwhile, government policies are benefitting the masses as the establishment of new industries in industrial estates has created innumerable job opportunities, he concluded.
