KARACHI: The Sindh government is implementing the doing business reforms across different departments, said Sindh Board of Investment (SBI) Chairperson Ms Naheed Memon on Friday.

Chairing a progress meeting on the implementation of Sprint-2 of doing business reforms, she stressed the significance of facilitating online payments as something crucial to these reforms.

While sharing future plans for furthering the agenda, she reiterated that all agencies should ensure on-ground implementation of these reforms.

The meeting was attended by officials from Planning and Development Board, Board of Revenue, Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA), Sindh Revenue Board, Sindh Employees Social Security Institution, Kara­­chi Development Authority (KDA), Labour and Human Resource Department, and Industries Department.

Participants expressed their satisfaction over the progress and also deliberated third-party validation of reforms executed so far.

Published in Dawn, August 18th, 2018

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