The Punjab government has been active in reviving the cottage industry, the government has slowed down the program and ordered action against the officers who did not implement the scheme.
Minister of Industry and Trade, chaired by Mian Aslam Iqbal Punjab Small Industries Corporation Small Industrial Estate in meeting decided to accelerate the process of corona virus in meeting the Small Industrial Estates speed up the process. In order to do so, a concessional package for plot allotments was considered while a sub-committee headed by Board of Directors Riaz Hameed Chaudhry was constituted which will formulate recommendations and present them in the next meeting.
On this occasion, the Chief Minister reviewed the progress of self-employment scheme, Punjab employment scheme and cottage industry rehabilitation program, approval to add new districts and create new clusters under the Financial Support Forage Industry and Cluster Development Project.
While the matter of departmental appeals was referred to the Additional Secretary Industry and Commerce. Provincial Minister Aslam Iqbal said that the problem of poverty and unemployment could be overcome only by accelerating the process of industrialization.
Extracted from City42 News