HYDERABAD, Oct 15: The managing director, SITE, Mohammad Nawab, has said that the government was extending maximum facilities to the entrepreneurs and trying to create a congenial atmosphere for investment with a view to eliminating unemployment in Sindh.

He was speaking at a reception hosted in his honour by the Kotri Association of Trade and Industry here on Tuesday.

He urged the Kotri Association of Trade and Industry to submit proposals for expanding the Kotri industrial area, repairing roads, which had been damaged due to the rain, establishment of a treatment plant and other problems confronting industrialists.

The acting chairman of the Kotri Association of Trade and Industry, Tariq Baloch, said that against heavy odds 29 new industrial units, including two units by foreigners, had been set up at the Kotri industrial area.

He highlighted the problems faced by the industrialists of Kotri.

ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS: The additional advocate general, Sindh, Masood A. Noorani, on Tuesday informed the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, that the chairman for the Environmental Protection Agency Tribunal to hear cases of violation of environmental laws would be appointed by the federal government in Sindh.

He made this submission before the court in response to directives of a division bench of the court, seeking details of appointment of chairman of environmental tribunals.

He placed a letter of the Sindh secretary, law department, in this regard.

The matter pertained to a constitutional petition filed by Bhittai Welfare Association, seeking directives that brick kilns’ owners should abide by the environmental guidelines issued by the director general, Environmental Protection Agency.

The petitioner’s association said that a large number of brick kilns were established in its area, causing a great deal of distress to the people, and added that members of the petitioner’s association are residents of the area where these kilns are located.