Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Engineering Development Board’s (EDB) annual competitiveness and efficiency improvement exercise has been initiated this year two major changes, firstly with an added objective to generate proposals specifically focusing on enhancing exports of the engineering sector. Secondly, under directives of CEO-EDB, the EDB management is proactively reaching out to the industry in their respective clusters to get effective and timely inputs from each sector. This annual exercise was kicked-off by the EDB team led by CEO-EDB, GM (Tariff) and their team at the Gujranwala Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI). A large number of representatives from manufacturing companies and industry associations turned up for the meeting due to the personal efforts of the President GCCI and the Chamber’s office bearers. Some of the sectors represented in the meeting included Home Appliances, Electric Fans, Cutlery, Ceramics and Sanitary ware, Engineering Fabrication, Bicycle, Steel Melters, Auto parts and Furnace Manufacturer etc.
The President of GCCI, Mian Umer Saleem and senior officials including ex-office bearers were present on the occasion. The President welcomed the initiative of the EDB, CEO-EDB highlighted the purpose of the meeting emphasizing on promotion of indigenization, imports substitution and more importantly export enhancement.
