Women entrepreneurs: Government urged to facilitate businesswomen

"Businesswomen should be given relaxations so that they can play their due role in the development of society," IWWCI

ISLAMABAD:

The Islamabad Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IWCCI) on Sunday said law and order situation and energy outages have taken a toll on the women entrepreneurs as well and they need help to revive their businesses.

The founder president of the IWWCI Samina Fazil said that businesswomen should be given relaxations so that they can play their due role in the development of society.

Newly elected President IWCCI Alia Akram, VP Naima Ansari and members of the Executive Committee were also present on the occasion.

Samina said that different government departments including Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) and its Women Entrepreneur Section have always claimed to facilitate and promote women entrepreneurs but the facts are contrary to it.

“We don’t get any support, through promotion and facilitation which amounts to denying us of right to expand and grow,” she said.

TDAP has disappointed many exporters who have started participating in important international exhibitions on their own, Samina said adding that the ministry of commerce should see why TDAP is spending so much without results.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 3^rd, 2011.