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‘Sialkot facing shortage of industrial estates’

By APP
March 04, 2019

SIALKOT: Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) president Khawaja Masood Akhtar said on Sunday the city was facing acute shortage of industrial estates and zones due to rapid growth of entrepreneurs. Talking to media, he said that they had already proposed for setting up of new small industrial estates on all major arteries leading to Sialkot city as well as special economic zone to resolve the problems of industrialists. The SCCI president stated that setting up of Special Economic Zone (SEZ) along with the Sialkot-Lahore Motorway would open a new vista of development and prosperity and accelerate the export activates. He said that they had suggested the government to develop proposed SEZ on Sialkot-Lahore Motorway near Wazirabad to encourage the industrial sector.