Islamabad needs improved fruit & vegetable market

Islamabad : A delegation of Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry visited I-11/4, Islamabad to congratulate the newly elected office-bearers of Anjamun-e-Wholesale Fruit Commission Agents.

Babu Aleem was elected as President, Tahir Ayub Secretary General, Haji Nadar Khan and Haji Dilawar Khan Senior Vice Presidents, Hafiz Abdul Waheed and Syed Wali Jan Vice Presidents, Ch. Zulfiqar Ahmed Additional Secretary General, Ehsanullah Khan Secretary Finance, Ch. Izhar Rauf Secretary Information and Syed Afzal Bukhari Joint Secretary. Muhammad Naveed Malik Senior Vice President, Nisar Mirza Vice President ICCI, Zubair Ahmed Malik Chairman Founder Group, Mian Akram Farid, Muhammad Ejaz Abbasi, Ch. Waheed ud Din, Ahmed Mughal, Khalid Chaudhry, Raja Abdul Majeed, Iftikhar Anwar Sethi, Mahmood A. Warraich, Ashfaq Chatha, Sh. Abdul Waheed, Shiraz A. Siddiqui, Syed Adil Anis, Tahir Mahmood and others were in ICCI delegation.

Speaking at the occasion, Sheikh Amir Waheed, President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry said that Wholesale Fruit Market was supplying fresh fruits and vegetables to twin cities, KP and Azad Kashmir and was also promoting exports of these products to Afghanistan and Central Asia. He stressed that CDA and government should focus on better development of wholesale fruit market and address its key issues so that it could play more effective role in promoting business activities and exports.

He said Market Committee domain was limited to wholesale fruit market, but traders and industrialists of the whole city receiving notices for licenses fee which was not justified. He said the license fee dispute between CDA and Market Committee was in the Islamabad High Court and called upon the Chief Commissioner ICT to immediate withdraw issued notices for license fee till the court decision in the matter.

Speaking on the occasion, Babu Aleem President and Tahir Ayub, Secretary General, Anjuman-e-Wholesale Fruit Commission Agents highlighted the key issues of their market. They said that they were facing problems from CDA in lease renewals as the civic body has made this process very complicated.

They emphasised that ICCI should take up this issue with CDA for redress.

They said that CDA has not done any development work in whole fruit market for the last many years due to which wholesalers were facing problems in promoting business activities. They said that sanitation work in market was quite unsatisfactory and stressed that CDA should pay urgent attention to these issues to facilitate the growth of business activities in fruit market.