Government is establishing a web portal for Ease of doing business and Private sector engagement for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Punjab" at the P&D Board, Punjab office.It would help the investors to avail the one-window like facility without running from Pillar to post,stated M.Salman Aslam Darr,Strategic Investment Analyst Executive while exchanging views with Senior Vice President of Multan Chamber of Commerce & Industry MCCI) Khawaja Badar Munir and other member. He said that the portal will also provide the latest statistics, analytical materials, information on government support measures, the province's industrial and innovation infrastructure and other data.Furthermore, it is envisaged to act as a facilitation of businesses through the identification and streamlining of hurdles and bottlenecks and by improving access to information pertaining to commercial activity for businesses. It is pertinent to mention that ICRU had been mandated to streamline private sector feedback, throughout the province, to the government pertaining to various policies and regulations.The Investment Climate Reform Unit (ICRU), Planning and Development Board, Government of Punjab, in collaboration with Financing Sustainable Development (FSD), Support to Local Governance Programme (LoGo), and Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) have joined hands to promote investment and ease of doing business in Punjab. Syed Basit Hussain Technical Advisor of Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) said that it was a part of ICRU's initiative of reaching out to stakeholders from the public and private sectors to identify specific operational concerns for the envisaged mechanism of designing one easy-to-use portal that would let businesses in the Punjab optimize and grow. In light of this, the consultative session was the first step in the process of evaluating the potential feasibility that may be utilized by the private sector for interfacing with concerned departments and authorities of the Government of the Punjab for resolution of general queries pertaining to the business environment put forward by the private sector through the web portal. Khawaja Badar Munir SVP of MCCI expressed his reservation on Government Plan and said that we want to see some changes in practical.because Departments discourage the investors and they use delaying tactics to demoralise the investors. He stressed the need for the replacement of outmoded, obsolete machinery with modern technology. We are living in the medieval era . manual cotton picking, century old ginning machinery.Our per acre cotton production is at lowest ebb. we are neglecting the value addition sector.Mian Rashid Iqbal member of Executive Committee of MCCI said that there was a vast difference between aims and actions. None can get power connection without greasing the palm of WAPDA employees, They demand 100 to 150 percent bribe of actual demand notice. He said hat engineering industry cannot survive in Pakistan when automobile assemblers were importing major parts fro abroad negating the agreement, He also pointed out corruption and coercion in FBR, customs,Sui-gas,MEPCO etc. Khurram Javed Butt Secretary General of MCCI also assisted the member of the chamber.
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