Department Of Industries And Commerce Sindh Working To Improve Infrastructure In Industrial Zones Across Sindh
By Our Web Reporter
KARACHI– Provincial Minister for Industries & Commerce and Anti-Corruption & Cooperative Department Jam Ikramullah Dharejo has said that the Department of Industries and Commerce Sindh in the current financial year, is working to improve infrastructure, upgrade and establish effluent treatment plants in industrial zones across Sindh province through eleven development schemes at a cost of Rs. 635 million and more industrial estates will be set up in other districts of the province in the style of Larkana Industrial Estate to provide employment to the people at the local level. He said this while presiding over a meeting at his office here today.
The meeting was also attended by Secretary Industries and Commerce Riaz-ud-Din, MD Site Pervez Billo, MD Sindh Small Industries Najamuddin Sehto, Controller Sindh Printing Press Hosh Latif Unar, Deputy MD Sindh Small Sarwat Fahim, and other concerned officers.
The meeting was informed that eleven projects are being worked on under the annual development program in the current financial year. These projects will cost a total of Rs 635 million. The meeting was further informed that under these projects, Thatta, Matiari, Shaheed Benazirabad, Sanghar, Sukkur, and other industrial zones would be upgraded. Addressing the meeting, Provincial Minister for Industries & Commerce and Anti-Corruption & Cooperative Department Jam Ikramullah Dharejo said that infrastructure in industrial zones was also being improved. Effluent Treatment Plants were being established in SITE Nooriabad and Kotri while Effluent treatment plants were also being set up at Sukkur and Hyderabad under Sindh Small Industries.
He said that a museum would also be set up at Government Press Karachi to preserve antiquities. The Sindh government is taking effective steps for industrial development in the province.
Jam Ikramullah Dharejo said that in order to provide employment to the people at the local level, industrial estates would be set up in other parts of Sindh in the style of Larkana Industrial Estate. Industrial development would create new employment opportunities. He said that it was unfortunate that the federal government was creating obstacles in the way of the development of Sindh. We demand from the federal government to give a full share of gas and electricity to the industries of Sindh so that the wheel of industrial development would continue running.
