FAISALABAD City News

NIM officers visit FCCI

‘All-out efforts underway to revive industrial sector’

From Our Correspondent

FAISALABAD. Additional Director General NIM Karachi Lt-Col (retd) Ejaz Ahmed Wednesday said the government was making all-out efforts to revive industrial sector at the earliest.

Addressing a meeting in the FCCI, Ejaz said highly skilled and committed bureaucracy was trying to put the country on the road to progress and prosperity.

He said in this connection the National Institutes of Management are harnessing the professional skills, character and behavior of the under training officers to make them more effective and productive for the country.

He said the bureaucracy is responsible to translate the vision of political leadership into reality through their policies.

Ejaz said it is very disturbing fact that more than 100 textile mills were closed down.

He said electricity is being provided to industries round the clock and five export sectors have been exempted from sale tax. He termed his visit to FCCI very productive and said that it will help the participants of 20th senior management course to fully understand the root causes of decline in national exports.

Earlier, FCCI president Engineer Muhammad Saeed Sheikh said there is no dearth of competent and committed bureaucrats who are working day and night for the welfare of the nation and country. “It is in this context that FCCI always encouraged and tried to cultivate good relationships with the bureaucracy,” he said and added that delegations from various National Institutes of Management are regularly visiting Faisalabad to understand its importance in national economy.

He said the FCCI has a dedicated department of R&D which is critically analyzing the impacts of government policies on trade and industry and was also forwarding viable proposals to make government policies more effective and business friendly.

The participants of 20th senior management course raised interesting questions about the economy of Faisalabad which were responded by president Engineer Muhammad Saeed Sheikh, Senior Vice President Rana Sikandar-e-Azam, Vice President Engineer Ahmed Hassan and Ayub Sabir.

Later, the FCCI president presented a shield to Ejaz who also reciprocated by handing over a crest of NIM Karachi to him.