Pak: Punjab upgrades 10 indl estates

Siakot: Punjab government is spending more than Rs 10 crore on the up gradation of existing ten industrial estates in the Province.

Under the programme Daska, Sargodha, Gujrat, Multan, Chakwal, Jhelum, Sahiwal, Gujar Khan, Bahawalpur and Gujranwala industrial estates would be upgraded and work on this programme would be started shortly. Under the programme all missing facilities would be ensured in these existing industrial estates for the business communities of these areas.

In addition to this setting up of SMEs Industrial estates in major industrial towns is already on cards. The step was being taken for the redressal of the problems being confronted by the SMEs in the Punjab. Besides this loan facilities were being extended to the businessmen and women folk for upgrading their workplaces and for setting up new industrial units including agro-based industries in Punjab sources added.