Chairman Businessmen Group (BMG) & Former President KCCI Siraj Kassam Teli and President Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) Agha Shahab Ahmed Khan have welcomed Prime Minister’s financial relief package of around Rs1.2 trillion announced to ward off the negative impact of coronavirus.
They said that it was undoubtedly a very good initiative but an effective mechanism was immediately needed for implementation of this package that ensures smooth transfer of financial support to the poor and deserving segment of society including workers, labors, daily wage and handcart earners etc. “We are too concerned about hundreds and thousands of poor labors, daily wage and handcart earners as majority of these workers are neither registered with PM’s Ehsaas Program nor with the industries as they are usually outsourced hence, the government will have to come up with some kind of an effective mechanism in consultation with business & industrial community so that our poor brothers and sisters in distress could immediately start receiving financial relief during the ongoing difficult circumstances caused by the lethal coronavirus”, said Siraj Teli and Agha Shahab in a joint statement issued on Wednesday.
They advised the government to publicize and provide details to all the Chambers, Trade associations and concerned individuals about the criteria and strategy to be followed for implementation of Rs1.2 trillion financial relief package.
The Chairman BMG and President KCCI further appealed all the businessmen, industrialists and traders of Karachi to extend full support to all their poor workers who must not be left alone and it has to be ensured at any cost that not a single worker or his/ her family member suffers starvation during the lockdown.
“We are socially, morally and religiously bound to help out and assist the poor people who are unable to come out of their homes to earn their bread and butter because of the widespread coronavirus pandemic hence, we all have to express unity and brotherhood with them by providing food and rations as per their requirements and according to our capacity”, they added.