PESHAWAR
\nA joint meeting of Islamabad-based economic research and industrial policy think tank \u201cPrime\u201d and Industries Department\u2019s officers was held here at Civil secretariat on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Industries Commerce, Technical Education and Newly Merged Districts Affairs Dr. Aamer Abdullah.
\nBesides Secretary Industries Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah and Chief Executive Officer(CEO) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Economic Zones Development and Management Company Javed Iqbal Khattak, officers of all subsidiaries of the department, representatives of SMEDA, Executive Director of Prime think tank Ali Salman, lead consultant and industrial Expert Imtiaz Rastgar and other relevant officers participated.
\nOn this occasion consultation session was held between the representatives of the think tank and department\u2019s officers regarding the promotion of industrialization in the province and policy matters in this regard and facilitating factors in business and trade wherein, useful views and suggestions were given from both sides.
\nIn the meeting, the think tank also gave a detailed briefing to the caretaker minister and other participants regarding the responsibilities and services of its institution , in which they discussed the possibilities of setting up new export processing zones in the country, their identification of sites and policies required for their success.
\nOfficials of the Department of Industry also informed the participants of the organization regarding the efforts and measures taken by the government in the province to create a conducive environment for the promotion of industrialization and to attract the industrialists towards availability of facilities in the industrial zones while participants also informed about the challenges in this regard.
\nSpeaking on this occasion, the caretaker minister said that the KP government has started its faster efforts for industrial development in other areas of the whole province including in the merged districts. Keeping in view the potential areas of local investment of the merged districts, a feasibility study of economic zones has been conducted there. These areas will get more facilities from the government and work in this regard is on fast track.
\nHe said that two feasibility studies are being done to bring the industrial zones on solar system in the province while digitizing and putting the KPEZDMC services on ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software system has been completed.
\nHe added that this province will be first in the country to cross this milestone in the public sector and through this step, the company\u2019s services will be available online and we can offer this facility to other provinces as well.
\nHe said that the offices of the company have been converted to industrial facilities centers in the economic zones of the province for all the government facilities and services needed by the industrialists, the aim of which is to help the industrialists and investors without any interruption.
\nIt was told in the meeting that efforts are being made to highlight the products of the province at the global level as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PESHAWAR A joint meeting of Islamabad-based economic research and industrial policy think tank \u201cPrime\u201d and Industries Department\u2019s officers was held here at Civil secretariat on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Industries Commerce, Technical Education and Newly Merged Districts Affairs Dr. Aamer Abdullah. Besides Secretary Industries Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah and Chief […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-peshawar"},"yoast_head":"\n