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SIALKOT, Oct 12: Federal Commerce Minister Humayun Akhtar Khan has agreed in principle to provide Rs20 million as a grant in aid to the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the construction of a display centre in Sialkot.
Funds will be provided from the Export Development Fund (EDF).
This assurance was held out by the federal commerce minister to a delegation of Sialkot-based exporters and industrialists, who called him in Islamabad.
Talking to newsmen here on Sunday, SCCI President Tahir Majeed Kapur said the display centre would be built near the SCCI building with an expenditure of Rs50 million.
He said the construction work on the project would be started soon after getting Rs20 million grant from the government. Mr Humayun Akhtar would lay the foundation stone of the display centre, he said.
Mr Majeed said the minister had assured the delegation that the SCCI would be given permanent representation in the export development fund (EDF).
RECOVERED: Four more bodies were recovered from river Chenab near Head Marala here on Sunday.
As of now, 18 bodies out of 19 have been fished out from the river and link canals while search for the last missing body is still on.
A ranger’s motor boat, carrying 25 family members, was capsized due to overloading on Oct 25 in river Chenab near Head Marala. Six people were saved by the area people.
EXPORT CENTRES: The Punjab government is considering to establish export trade centres in different areas of the province.
This was stated by Punjab Industries Minister Muhammad Ajmal Cheema while talking to businessmen here on Sunday.
He said that steps were being taken for the promotion of traditional and non-traditional products being produced by the women folk in rural and urban areas across the Punjab.
The purpose of establishing ‘export trade centres’ was to encourage the traders and extend support to women entrepreneurs, he said.
The government had also decided to provide small loans to such women for the improvement of working conditions and upgrading industrial units. In addition, adequate arrangement had been made for providing guidance to the women entrepreneurs, he added.
