Cement production enough for local demand

Current production capacity enough for public sector infrastructure projects like small dams and canal lining.

ISLAMABAD: Cement manufacturers assured the government that cement requirements of the public sector infrastructure projects like small dams and canal lining could be met with the current production capacity of the industry.

They said this in a meeting held between cement manufacturers and government officials. It was also decided that all the four provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan will provide details of annual cement requirement whereas cement manufacturers will provide details of possibility of deferred payment in the next meeting.

The meeting was presided over by federal minister for industries and production and attended by Sindh minister for finance and the officials of ministry of petroleum and natural resources along with representatives of including Lucky, Best way, Fauji and Kohat Cement.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 14^th, 2011.