KARACHI - UNISAME President Zulfikar Thaver who will represent the sector at the conference appreciated the efforts of the MoPD&R to uplift the sector and invited the attention of the federal minister PD&R to the urgent need of influencing the finance, commerce, industry and agriculture ministries to align their policies for SME promotion and development.
He said it is important that the MoPD&R co-ordinates with the different ministries for integrated efforts and advises them to gear up for the jump start of the sector on war footings. Thaver said the SME sector expects that the govt will make doing business easy for the sector. Some of the important and urgent steps needed are the one window operation, removal of hurdles and deregulation, facilities for transfer of technology and e-Commerce, providing incentives to new investors, promoting innovative and import substitution industries, alternate energy plants and building of industrial estates.
Thaver said we have been reiterating the need to strengthen SMEDA and hope the MoPD&R will take up the matter with the ministry of industries and onwards to the cabinet. In fact SMEDA must be taken directly under the cabinet division to enable it to function without impediments.