Industries and Trade Secretary Zafar Iqbal has said that the employment opportunities for skilled and semi-skilled workers will be created in industrial estates.
A meeting was held at Civil Secretariat with Industries and Trade Secretary Zafar Iqbal in chair. The meeting reviewed the industrialization process in Southern Punjab. Punjab Industrial Estates Development and Management Company (PIEDMC) Chief Executive Officer Ahsan Mahmood Butt briefed the meeting about development projects in these industrial estates.
Speaking on this occasion, Zafar Iqbal said that state-of-the-art industrial estates are being established in Bahawalpur on three hundred and eighty-three acres of land while on four thousand acres in Muzaffargarh. He said that employment opportunities for skilled and semi-skilled workers will be created in the industrial units of these industrial estates. He said that through industrialization we will achieve targets set by Industrial Policy 2018.
The secretary said that food processing units will also be set up in Bahawalpur and Muzaffargarh industrial estates. He said that economic activities will boost in Southern Punjab after completion of these industrial estates.