Strengthening economy govt’s top priority: Sindh Governor

KARACHI: Sindh Governor Imran Ismail has said that strengthening the country’s economy was the government’s topmost priority.

The Sindh governor said this while chairing a meeting of the Sindh Industrial Liaison Committee (SILC) representatives at Governor House today.

The meeting was attended by senior officials of SILC including Provincial Assembly members Firdous Shamim Naqvi and Haleem Adil Sheikh.

Imran Ismail said the federal government is ready to provide every possible assistance to provinces in order to increase their capacity in industrial sectors.

He said that the present government is focused on reviving sick industrial units and promoting the Small and Medium Enterprises as they are essential for wealth creation and generation of employment opportunities.

Governor Imran Ismail further said that 50 fire tenders and two water bowsers for industrial areas would be imported by December 2020 with a total cost of the fire tenders and bowsers are up to Rs. 2 billion.

He said Karachi had witnessed a number of arson-related incidents and other fire tragedies in preceding years including Baldia fire tragedy.

Soon after the Baldia fire tragedy, officials of KMC had instructed to upgrade fire fighting system but after the passage of years no adequate measures have so far been taken to upgrade the system, Imran Ismail added.

He said keeping above all situation that fire tenders would be handed over to Karachi Industrial Area Associations. They discussed the supply of fire tenders to industrial areas and other matters of mutual interests.