SIALKOT, March 11: The Sialkot dryport management has decided to establish a colony for workers adjacent to the dryport.

Talking to this correspondent, the senior member of dryport development committee, Mohammad Sadiq Lone, said the colony would have hospitals, schools, mosques, playgrounds and residential flats.

He said that more than 300 people worked at the dryport and all of them would be allotted residential plots in the colony on soft terms.

Mr Lone said that dryport’s management would also start group insurance of workers and pay all the premiums on its own.

He said that the National Logistic Cell (NLC) international cargo-transport service from Sialkot would also be extended to Afghanistan via Peshawar.

He said that the dryport trust and the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) were also struggling for early establishment of exporters’ colonies on Sialkot-Daska and Sialkot-Sambrial roads near the EPZ.