Subsidised Finance: Encouraging agro-based SMEs

KARACHI: The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) held a meeting with Sindh Enterprise Development Fund (SEDF) and Small Medium Industrial Leasing Estates Pvt Ltd (SMILE) to encourage, support, facilitate and motivate the SME agro-based industries to obtain subsidised finance for their units in Sindh. The meeting aimed at stimulating entrepreneurs to modernise their units and expand their lines of trade. It ended with a firm resolution to revive all closed rice and commodities units in Sindh in the shortest possible time, with the help and support of SEDF, SMILE and UNISAME. UNISAME President Zulfikar Thaver and other participants urged the SEDF CEO to simplify the documentation process for providing subsidy and ensure prompt disbursements.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 7^th, 2016.

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