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Export industry to start operation in phases: Razzaq Dawood

By APP
April 04, 2020

FAISALABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on Commerce Abdur Razzaq Dawood has said that the government has made a strategy to allow the export related industry to start its operation in phases.

Abdur Razzaq Dawood was talking to the business leaders through a video link conference to personally inquire about their problems. He said that due to the extension in current lockdown because of coronavirus pandemic, a strategy was being made to allow export related industry to start its operation.

He asked the various chambers to provide him a priority-wise list of 10 industrial units, which could be opened subject to the fulfillment of required safety measures. He said that the government would also review to allow the SMEs and cottage industry to resume its operation after following the set SOPs. He said that instructions to the provincial chief secretaries and commissioners were being issued in this regard.