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Smeda to set up 50 common facility centres for
SMEs uplift
LAHORE (April 21
2004): The Small and Medium Enterprise Development
Authority (Smeda) would set up as many as 50
Common Facility Centres (CFCs) for development of
different sectors of SMEs in the country.
Shahab Khawaja, Chief Executive Officer of Smeda,
disclosed this while addressing a meeting at
Pakistan Tanners Association (PTA) office.
The meeting was presided over by Muhammad
Mussadaq, Chairman PTA. A number of prominent
members of PTA including Agha Saiddain, Shahid
Usman, Mansoor Iqbal and Anjum Zafar attended the
meeting.
Shahab Khawaja, apprising the PTA members about
Smeda's efforts to develop SME sector in the
country, said that series of meetings were held
with trade bodies from January last.
The meeting with PTA was a chain of this process.
He said that the process had helped Smeda to
compile major problems and issues hindering
development of SMEs in the country.
'The issues and problems being faced by the SMEs
will be addressed in the first National Policy on
SMEs to be announced by the government', he said.
The ADB had extended a loan for developing SMEs in
Pakistan that was being utilised to constitute the
SME policy and a set of 50 CFCs for SMEs in the
country.
He hoped that the policy would be in place by next
year, whereas CFCs would be set up by parts during
next five years in consultation with the trade
bodies.
The management of CFCs would be handed over to the
relevant association of the SMEs, he said. Out of
50 CFCs, eight would be completed by December this
year, he said.
Earlier, Mussadaq Hussain, Chairman of the PTA
highlighted major issues of the Tanning industry.
Members of the PTA presented a number of proposals
to upgrade the sector at par with world tanning
industry.
They demanded ban on roadside slaughtering
suggesting to replace it with the modern
slaughterhouses equipped with the automatic
machinery and standards.
Courtesy Business Recorder |
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Pakissan.com; Advisory Point
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