MULTAN, August 26th: The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA ) has planned to set up 1000 Industrial Stitching Units with the collaboration of Ministry of Commerce & Textile under different phases of the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) while it will establish 150 Stitching Units during next three years in the first phase of the PSDP.This project has been envisaged to promote value addition in the field of Textile garments based on Public -Private partnership by strengthening of existing SMEs and startups, Khawaja Muhammad Usman ex-President of Multan Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MCCI) in his presidential address at an introductory programme of SMEDA, & MCCI. In this project 60 percent funding for the machines will be provided from PSDP through the same project by the Ministry of Commerce and Textile and 40 percent would be borne by the owner of the stitching units. SMEDA will design an operational manual for the project to monitor and supervise the implementation process, SMEDA will place staff and its officials engaged with the project throughout Pakistan, at provincial and regional offices. Salman Rafi Project Manager said that SMEDA is not only an SME policy-advisory body for the government of Pakistan but also facilitates other stakeholders in addressing their SME development agendas.He said that National Textile University (NTU)will impart training to successful candidates while SMEDA will play a role as a monitoring and executing agency and Ministry of Commerce & Textile is a sponsor of this project.Applicants must be Matriculate having three years experience in the field of textile.He said that Single Needle Lock stitch Machine, Double Needle Lock stitch Machine,4-Thread over lock Machine,5-Thread over lock Machine,Flat Lock Machine,Button Hole Machine,Button attach Machine,Cover Stitch machine,Hand Cutter, Bottle Press and fusing machine will be provided to the applicants to run their business. Khush-dil Khan Monitoring Officer, Khawaja Muhammad Farooq,Khurram Javed Secretary General and Mrs.Syeda Sarwat Zahra also spoke.
