Corporate entities urged to expand coverage of activities

KARACHI: The corporate sector entities are under obligation to expand coverage of their social welfare activities to launch programmes for the promotion of education, health facilities, poverty alleviation and for provision of employment to dwellers of impoverished and rural areas in Pakistan, Chief Executive of Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) S M Muneer said at a one-day training workshop on Corporate Social Responsibility, organised by the National Forum for Environment and Health.
The TDAP chief said that Pakistanis working in the field of social activism and philanthropy had gained prominence on worldwide basis.
He said that corporate sector bodies’ having wings to conduct CSR-related activities in the country were now under greater obligation to get recognition by rendering services in pertinent social sectors having pressing public issues.
A sort of silent revolution was about to be materialized as commercial organizations in the country started donating generously and providing services for doing social and relief works in every instance of emergency without demanding publicity for their work for good causes, he said.
Senator and leader of Pakistan Peoples Party Taj Haider said that the tax net should be expanded for the development of the economy and also resolving basic problems of the people in the country.
Industrial estates should be expanded, while problems faced by industries should be resolved for provision of employment opportunities in maximum number and in the best of manner to deserving and educated youth, he said.
The senator congratulated the organisers of the event for conducting the training workshop.
NFEH Chairman Dr Kaiser Waheed said that the corporate sector across the world has been getting recognition owing to provision of required social sector services and facilities to the deserving sections of the community.
He said the NFEH in the last eight years of its existence had given due salience to CSR-related activities and in this regard conducted seminars, conferences, awards, and other similar programmes on the issue.